The Chronicles Of Kaurava: Part 4
The Siege Of Port Orochi
During the Great Unification War that ravaged the world of Avatar, for the sake of a better tomorrow, many cities in the Fire Nation, Earth Kingdom, and North and South Poles were forcibly occupied by troops from the Hidden Valley's armies, as well as the Unity Movement's most fervent, loyal supporters.
If the local population dared to resist, going against the new laws and regulations affecting their lives, they were either brutally massacred, or more often, sent to reeducation camps, a heinous strategy that signified the lengths the activists were willing to go to in the name of the greater good, although things certainly didn't start out this way.
The Hidden Valley's revolution mission had begun on a small scale, subtly interfering with government affairs and sending well-trained spies into different populated areas. It got increasingly larger as acts of sabotage, vandalism and property destruction took hold in the public limelight, and within just a few short years, an all-out global war was on the horizon.
However, with every step the radicals took forward, they risked blowing their cover.
Eventually, knowing this, they deliberately revealed themselves to the world at large, as well as to the Avatar himself, because there wasn't any point in hiding anymore, especially not during the heated prelude to a massive armed conflict.
Krishna, the Star Child, the stranger from the heavens, was meant to be the Hidden Valley's trump card in the slaughter that was to come.
Not only that, he was literally the whole reason why the isolated and secretive nation was suddenly trying to force its political agenda down everyone else's throats. Krishna's supposedly prophetic arrival had spurred his countrymen into declaring war on the whole world, based on a utopian dream of peace, equality and unity.
The young demigod proved to be hard to control, however, and was very impulsive and reckless, ditching the main campaign and disobeying his masters to hunt down Avatar Aang all by himself, right when the fighting was beginning to get serious.
It took him more than a year to find Aang, even with his god-given abilities, due to his lack of experience in international travel, orienteering and navigation.
Sure, he could practically fly with jets of fire and wind, allowing him to cover a lot of ground, but he was completely unfamiliar with the geography and mapping of the Four Nations, likely because he barely paid any attention to the lessons his mentors gave him on those topics, only ever truly investing himself when it came to the art of combat and the pursuit of direct self-improvement (and he only had a few years' worth of training in that area of expertise.)
Unsurprisingly, once Krishna finally came face to face with Avatar Aang, he ended up being viciously thrashed like a wild dog's prey, leaving him on the brink of death, due to the fact that the reincarnated warrior of balance had decades of combat experience, backed up by the assistance from his past lives- Krishna's raw strength and innate divine power could only get him so far in the duel.
The Primarch only survived because Aang was merciful enough to spare him and let him go, provided he resigned from his ambitions of global domination.
Shortly after beginning his trek back to the Hidden Valley, though, Krishna received a vision that his adoptive family- the four Benders who raised him and taught him everything he knew- were in imminent danger.
He had to find them as soon as possible.
Luckily, he keenly recognized the location in the prophetic mirage. It was one of only a handful of places he remembered from his geography lessons- Port Orochi, the largest naval base in the Fire Nation. He remembered catching a detailed glimpse of an enormous shipyard during his airborne travels to hunt down the Avatar, one that far exceeded the size of every other harbor and port he had come across.
The young demigod only wondered what his adoptive family had gotten themselves into... most likely, they had become openly involved in the ongoing war.
Exactly how this would play out, Krishna didn't know. Regardless, he definitely did think that shit was going to hit the fan once he arrived at the naval base.
Let's see how much shit is hitting the fan, then!
"What in the name of the rising sun is going on here? I must be losing my mind..."
Fire Lord Zuko and a group of Firebender elites were carefully examining a nautical battleship, the Lance of Narukami, one of many vessels at Port Orochi that had suffered mysterious and significant damage from some kind of corrosive acid in the water. Where the corrosion had came from, no one knew, only that it had presumably risen from deep beneath the surface of the ocean, since it was completely absent in the shallow waters where small patrol vessels were docked, and no potential culprits or saboteurs had been caught so far.
"Well, this is just splendid! Our navy is being crippled by something clearly out of our reach. Otherwise, our security patrols would have found the person responsible for the damage!"
"Then again... I shouldn't be so quick to make hasty assumptions about a crisis. Uncle Iroh wouldn't do that."
"Crucially, we need to be able to recognize where these puddles of poison originated from, and deduce why they haven't showed up in any of our other shipyards, during this recent and regrettable global war."
"The good news is, I know exactly which individuals to call on for this job."
So when the Fire Lord's scrutiny ultimately failed to uncover any further details regarding the sudden appearance of the toxic pools, he switched to Plan B... getting help from his longtime friends and international comrades in arms.
"General Totoro. Fetch Katara, Sokka and Suki from the war room inside the castle overlooking the port. They can assist us in our investigation of this nefarious plot of sabotage. I suspect the Hidden Valley's involvement, as usual- but despite my suspicions, logically speaking, there's no way any submarine model around today would be capable of carrying all that acid without it gradually melting through the hull over time."
"Affirmative! They will be here soon, Lord Zuko."
Some time later... he got a glimpse of the true extent of the damage.
"By the spirits, this looks terrible! At this rate, the harbor's battleships might all sink by the end of the day! Katara, can you tell how this acid might have gotten here? I mean, you are one of the best Waterbenders in the world, so sampling this and analyzing it shouldn't be a problem."
Katara nodded silently, and diligently used her keen hydrokinetic abilities to separate the toxins from the seawater itself.
"So, sis, what are we dealing with, exactly?," Sokka asked, being too curious for his own good.
As a response, Katara gave her comrades an appalled look that signified dreadful, imminent danger.
"Wait, what's wrong now?!," Suki replied, bewildered by the Waterbending master's grim expression.
"This is Unagi Dragon Eel venom," Katara said, confirming the presence of insidious forces, though the worst was yet to come. "Somehow, our enemy must be influencing the actions and behavior of beasts from the bottom of the ocean. The jets of eel poison must have traveled miles upon miles unnoticed until it eventually reached its intended target."
"How would the Hidden Valley's armies pull something like that off, though?!," Zuko exclaimed, still stricken with disbelief from this new intel.
Only seconds later, another battleship at the western edge of the port, the Tenshukaku, was utterly eviscerated by a mighty explosion, proving that the battle had already begun, and there was no time to lose.
"We're about to find out!," Suki growled.
"My generals!," Zuko announced. "Find your motorized steam engine vehicles, and gather as many soldiers as you can from the navy shipyard and the nearby cities. Chances are, they already saw that tremendous blast, so we'll have no trouble with rallying our troops!"
Not wasting any time, the Fire Lord's subordinates scrambled to carry out the orders.
"Do we really know what we're up against?," Katara said, questioning Zuko's sudden confidence. "How prepared are we for an enemy that has successfully stayed isolated from the rest of the world for several centuries?"
"Yeah, we've only fought them a handful of times!," Sokka mentioned. "And the revolutionaries we've battled so far never had any sort of bending abilities. What if they're deliberately saving their secret weapons for a decisive battle like this?"
"Then we fight to our very last breath!," Zuko told his companions, assuring them that there was no turning back.
We've weathered the rain, but now we face the storm...
Thousands of heavily armed Fire Nation guards stampeded through the streets leading to Port Orochi, assisted by their steam engine battle tanks and troop transports. The civilian buildings in the area were already completely evacuated and abandoned, a telling sign that the nearby docked battleship suddenly exploding was the sort of disastrous event that people were very much expecting, especially in these turbulent times.
Once all of the troops were in the proper place, either occupying coastal fortifications or boarding Fire Nation Navy vessels, they were treated to a terrifying sight: Several Unagi rising from the depths in unison, with strange devices that vaguely resembled beast saddles clipped onto their scaly skin. Needless to say, this was hardly the only threat making its existence well known to the port's defenders.
Out of the clouds, came a fleet of literal airborne sailing ships, defying gravity by esoteric methods that the Four Nations neither understood nor comprehended (since these vessels were clearly not related to the Fire Nation's own war blimps.)
What was perfectly understood, however, was the fact that these flying pirate ships had metallic naval mines attached to their hulls- they were likely what caused the devastating explosion that devoured the battleship Tenshukaku.
To complete the composition of the invading force, airborne cavalry swooped into action, soldiers of the Hidden Valley riding on the backs of giant sharp-toothed pterosaurs, colorful horse-sized birds of prey, sky bison, and even dragons.
"We're soooo DEAD!," Sokka exclaimed, once again trying to contain his overwhelming fear, as was everybody else.
But then Katara simply told her brother to "SHUT UP!," snapping him out of his brief moment of hesitancy.
As the hovering sailing ships slowly but steadily advanced, backs stiffened, and Fire Nation guards pointed their loaded flintlocks and crossbows skyward, preparing to let hell loose, while every Firebender present took deep breaths in order to concentrate their energy supply, their strength only increasing due to the rays of the hot afternoon sun.
"On my command, bring those airships down to earth!," Zuko roared.
Before the Rising Sun Army could unleash its massed firepower, though, numerous hull panels on the closest airborne armored sailboats were discarded, and 800 Hidden Valley infantrymen, including approximately 6 dozen benders, leapt out from the openings and descended upon Port Orochi's defensive positions using wind gliders, screaming bloody murder and engaging Zuko's forces in ferocious melee combat and point-blank firefights.
Nonetheless, the members of this regiment were likely inexperienced in battle, and they were outnumbered, both factors of why they died so early in the carnage.
Katara hurled barrages of icicles and jets of high-pressure water at every adversary that dared approach her, while Zuko created walls of flame to trap groups of foes in kill zones. Sokka wielded his meteor steel sword with lethal precision and deadly discipline, charging headfirst into the slaughter, followed by Suki, who slitted throats and severed limbs with every clean cut of her war fans, using the technique of Tessenjutsu.
By the time most of those enemy soldiers were killed, however, the damage had already been done. The first wave of Hidden Valley forces had bought more than enough time for the main column of troops to make landfall, with additional airships now able to deposit their payload of warriors in relative safety, flying cavalry units permitted to launch ceaseless strafing runs on Fire Guards below, and mind-controlled Unagi eels free to carry out the most crucial part of the mission- destroying every single ship in Orochi Harbor, finishing what had been started prior to this bloodbath.
Team Avatar quickly took notice of the dragon eels wrecking the Fire Nation's naval assets, and they unanimously agreed that stopping a rising global hegemonic government was a cause worth dying for... so they began a near-suicidal attempt to board a gunboat and drive the sea monsters off with rapid cannon fire. Around three dozen Fire Navy sailors banded together and joined the desperate effort, seeking transportation and explosive firepower to counter the atrocious aquatic threat.
Just as the team made haste for the Tengu, a small ship with a very large gun, a spear of pure space ice with temperatures below -180 degrees Celsius ripped through the air and nearly took off Sokka's head!
"You're not going anywhere, tribalist filth!"
Hydroblade Reika blocked the way, along with her closest comrades, some of the most elite warriors in the Hidden Valley- Firedrake Taishen, Stonewarden Daoyu, and Windrunner Isan. These were the same people responsible for mentoring an alien demigod who nearly killed the Avatar with his sheer combat prowess.
"So we've made some formidable new enemies, evidently!," Sokka grumbled, still wincing from the stinging cold of the ice projectile.
"This is madness!," Katara shouted. "Don't you know that forcing everyone to live in the same society, under the same government, is the exact opposite of true equality?! It's the very definition of tyranny!"
"What a foolish, ignorant mindset!," Reika retorted. "Regardless of what certain individuals may think, we'll eventually all have to give up a good deal of our sense of national pride and cultural identity! You are fighting for NOTHING."
"We will do what we must!," Taishen proclaimed. "This last great war is the only way that the tragic cycle of history can be amended, so future generations will not have to carry the overwhelming burden of suffering and conflict, hopelessness and despair!"
Fire Lord Zuko did not yield, and as anticipated, his close entourage was fully prepared to fight to the death for the sake of their cause, once more.
"So let it be war. I'd rather die than serve the likes of you!"
The Airbender arrow tattoos on Isan's bald head began to glow, and she acknowledged Zuko's words with an ice-cold threat, spoken in a scathing, austere voice.
"Suit yourself. Prepare to be cast into the darkness and imprisoned within your own mind, as we make a swift, horrific example out of you and your followers!"
The bending battle is on!!!
Reika was the first to surge into the fray, and she immediately rushed Katara with a double-bladed frozen nitrogen spear.
The two Waterbenders committed themselves to a furious exchange of cryogenic blows using copious quantities of the coastline's water, icy warheads shattering with the concussive force of an earthquake each time they missed the proper target, while the hand-to-hand strikes being used here would kill or severely incapacitate an average human instantly.
Katara tried to use Reika's berserk momentum against her in classic Tai Chi fashion, like water being redirected by a glacier, but somehow, the Hydroblade warrior saw this coming, and after being brutally thrown to the floor while coughing up blood, she switched her approach, rooting herself to the ground, and taking her own defensive position to withstand and counter whatever her foe threw at her, much like an Earthbender.
It was then that Katara realized she was facing the fastest, most coordinated and most skilled opponent she had ever dueled in her long tour of service, and she made a tactical retreat by riding a piece of ice atop a rippling wave, in order to aid her teammates, and to avoid being slashed into bits by Reika's blades of frozen spirit steel.
Naturally, this change of tactics pissed her off, and she made her own glacial surfboard to pursue her nemesis.
"Get back here, you pathetic coward!," Reika roared while chasing down Katara, hurling jagged icicles in a fit of rage.
The two Waterbending paragons then simultaneously spotted their allies locked in mortal combat (Mortal Kombat?,) and sped towards the beach where the Tengu was being docked, to provide some needed assistance- only to be knocked off their mobile ice sheets by an unseen force, one that seemingly came from nowhere.
Uninterested in what caused this strange occurrence, Katara and Reika made new combat surfboards and took off in opposite directions, with the objective of finding an alternative way to reach the gunboat and reunite with their comrades on land.
Even without the two most valuable, potent Waterbenders included, the hectic elemental combat on the beach landing site was a cataclysmic sight to behold, ships being tossed into the air, tidal waves being stirred up by massive kinetic impacts, and bursts of flame obliterating whole sections of bunkers and coastal defenses. Earthbenders, Waterbenders and Firebenders all played vital roles during the siege, on both sides.
Facing down Zuko, Taishen wielded a guandao polearm made of molten steel, as hot as volcanic magma.
"I'm going to skewer you like shaking beef on a kebab, you impotent failure of a leader!"
"The only one with any sign of impotence or weakness is YOU," the Fire Lord snapped back.
Knowing that his stalwart foe could both decapitate him and boil his innards with a single stroke, Zuko immediately used the deadliest technique in his arsenal to end the fight very early- he calmed his mind and cleared his thoughts, channeling opposing energies through his body, and hurled a lightning bolt at Taishen, believing that the Firedrake wouldn't anticipate such a move.
Unfortunately, Taishen knew exactly what to do when facing an opponent using electric attacks, proving to be far more experienced than what Zuko initially thought.
Just like the great General Iroh once did, he absorbed the voltage that was sent his way into his body and weapon, and shot it right back at his enemy- a deadly discipline he perfected while training with Reika, combining the redirection of force from Waterbending methods with his own Firebending moves, to create a remarkably unique, efficient fighting style.
That is to say, Zuko was SCREWED.
...Until a barrier of protective sandstone and obsidian rose from the ground at the last moment, and shielded the young Fire Lord from certain death!
Toph Beifong, the Blind Bandit, had finally arrived, with the goal of bringing the ruckus!
"Oh, am I glad to see you!," Zuko said, relieved by the sudden appearance of his savior and sparring partner.
"What took you so long?!," Suki snapped, while acrobatically evading Isan's wind blades and Daoyu's spiky stone darts.
"Don't complain... let's ROCK AND ROLL!," Toph yelled at the top of her lungs, a response which told the warriors that they should focus on the bloody battle and spend less time talking. Nevertheless, insults were still thrown and sarcasm was plainly shown.
While Suki was skirmishing with the vicious Airbender known as Isan, Sokka came into the crosshairs of the ground-shaking marksman, Daoyu, who was wielding a compound bow firing razor-sharp, armor-piercing ferromagnetic stone bolts.
"Don't get any closer if you know what's good for you!"
"I'll get in close if I please! And when that happens, chances are it'll be very, very bad for you."
Daoyu didn't hesitate any longer, and fired a stone arrow from his bow. Sokka, however, was so freakishly quick, he was actually able to slice through the projectile in mid-air with his meteor steel sword.
"Impossible! You aren't even a Bender!"
"Impossible is a word I typically don't use very much in my vocabulary, since there's always a way forward!"
Daoyu strung his Earthbending bow and fired a whole volley of geological arrows at Sokka, only for Suki to intervene with ludicrous speed, swatting them all out of the air using her signature pair of war fans. To add insult to injury, two of the arrows that were deflected quite literally found themselves inside the skull of a Hidden Valley sergeant.
"Looks like you don't need Bending to do things right and proper on the battlefield!," Suki said, with a smug look on her face. "If only the rest of the Kyoshi Warriors would show up now..."
Without question, someone worth worrying about WOULD show up, soon. The two most powerful beings on the planet had foreseen that their friends were in danger, and were also trying to kill each other.
It was time to intervene.
(Keep that phrase in mind, it will be relevant later in the story!)
As the amphibious assault dragged on, with no signs of stopping, the clashing warriors of both armies failed to notice bizarre things happening in the background.
Most of the Unagi had swam off and ditched the campaign, with the esoteric creature mind control system the Hidden Valley's scientists had developed suffering a catastrophic failure. The remaining few dragon eels deliberately beached themselves and died from suffocation, as if something distant yet far more powerful had hijacked their brains, compelling them to commit suicide.
Far more alarming was the fact that the ocean water itself was slowly becoming a hue of red, and the afternoon sun was exhibiting otherworldly patterns of multicolored strobing light, like the auroras that only ever took place in the North and South Poles.
Of course, everyone DID eventually become aware of these visual phenomena, as they got more and more dramatic, and harder to ignore, even for soldiers stuck in a vicious conflict.
Katara and Reika had returned to the main landing beach by taking a route on land, and they were both covered in an unknown fluid that was slimy, sticky and possessed brilliant colors, but carried a stench beyond description. Both of them were too traumatized to speak, hinting that they had an unpleasant encounter with the repulsive yet disturbingly beautiful substance... perhaps they almost drowned in it, like a pool of quicksand.
"What in the world is transpiring right now?," Isan asked, with a fearful expression on her face, and an anxious inflection in her voice... something that was completely out of character for her, given that just 20 minutes ago, she had been blasting hundreds of Fire Nation guards with violent, piercing wind.
"This certainly isn't anything like the Southern Lights we've gazed upon every summer," Sokka remarked. "Maybe the spirits are angry, although I don't know any definite reason why they'd be this upset."
Then, in a blinding flash of light, the world's two prophesied saviors appeared, descending from above, shifting the whole army's attention.
The Avatar, Aang, and the Primarch, Krishna, had both seen visions of the impending doom that was to come, and chose to confront it side-by-side with their closest allies, but even with the guidance of wisdom from ages past, the messiahs could not discern exactly what form this new evil would take.
Out of everybody, it was Taishen who was the first to throw accusations at the promised ones.
"You couldn't have picked a better time to show up, Avatar! Maybe Krishna was destined to save us from a calamity that resulted from the failures of your past lives!"
"Don't blame this nonsense on me!," Aang snapped. "You and your cronies are the ones who declared war on the whole world with the excuse of it being for the greater good and unity of mankind!"
"One way or another, we're all stuck in this mess together," Zuko said, stating a fact. "In my opinion, the spirits have declared all of humanity irredeemable by this point- the sea has turned blood red from our collective misdeeds! We all knew this day would come, let's face it."
"She's got a point," Toph added. "People have been yapping about the end of the world since the dawn of time. It was only a matter of time before their predictions came true. The only thing we can do now, as much as I hate to say it, is to let go of everything, and hope for the best."
Then, Krishna broke his silence, and ended the conversation with the WORST possible thing to say- something that you would never expect him to put into words, given his usual vainglorious nature and self-righteousness.
"This whole affair of trying to actively shape my own destiny has been real confusing, and speaking of which, I don't think I want the burden of uniting the world anymore. Maybe nothing really matters, and all our lives are ultimately meaningless. At least things can't get any worse."
Just when those last words left his lips, the sky itself was set aflame, and an enormous... THING fell from the heavens, crashing into the city surrounding the naval base, and COMPLETELY OBLITERATING a vast swath of land.
The force of the blast knocked everybody on the beach off their feet, and some soldiers flew so far, they found themselves hundreds of meters out at sea.
By the time they recovered, and the army regained its cohesion and formation, the whole world's fate was sealed.
Scenes like this had played out all across the globe, in the Four Nations, the Hidden Valley, and beyond, in a mere hour and a half. The waters became rich in crimson hemoglobin, auroras danced across the sky, and, with horrific finality, fireballs rained down from the cosmos and caused unimaginable amounts of destruction.
One might think that this all-new apocalyptic incident was likely an asteroid bombardment, what scholars and astronomers in the Four Nations have long suspected as being responsible for killing off entire ecosystems in prehistoric times, given the abundance of fossils that could be found across the planet.
But as the ominous light show and landscape color change clearly demonstrated, this was no ordinary natural disaster or extinction event.
Krishna and Aang were the first to sense that the onslaught was just beginning, as the survivors of Port Orochi stood firm, vigilant for any further sign of danger.
The Avatar and the Primarch instinctively readied themselves.
Krishna used a boulder on the beach to shape a sandstone obsidian kanabō, or heavy mace, as well as preparing a crossbow made of solid sulfurous flame, while Aang concentrated water, wind, fire and soil from all across the coastal area to form a gargantuan barrier that separated all the remaining troops and civilians from the impact zone of the fallen "asteroid."
An eerie silence lingered in the air for several minutes, yet no one let their guard down for even a millisecond.
"Something's off," Katara said, her sanity finally returning after her run-in with the mysterious goo, which had apparently made her brain suffer immense psychological distress, bringing back her worst memories in full swing.
"We've been waiting for something sinister to jump out at us, but nothing has happened so far."
"Wait, do you hear that?," Reika asked her fellow survivors, also back in control of her own mind following the run-in with the vibrant quicksand. "What's that clicking sound? And where are those low groans and moans coming from?"
"You hear something?," Krishna responded. "I'll send fiery death in whatever direction it's coming from!"
"Wait, NO!," Suki shouted.
But it was too late for that. The Star Child fired an explosive sulfur crossbow bolt at the barrier protecting the remnants of the city, which Aang had constructed for a very specific purpose.
The noises that Reika claimed to hear became loud enough for the whole army to listen to. A cacophony of demonic screeching, roaring, crackling static, croaking and clicking notes, and extremely distorted, twisted laughter, which preyed on the sanity and morality of anyone who heard it.
The atrocious sounds then stopped as quickly as they had came, as a big chunk of the elemental barrier came crumbling down, leaving a gaping hole behind, and silence became dominant once more.
Until, suddenly...
"SKREEEEAAAARGH!!!"
Horrors beyond comprehension poured through the breach, among them thousands upon thousands of humans with poisoned minds, coated in fungal infections that hideously deformed their bodies.
Additionally, power-armored, vaguely humanoid infantry bolstered the basic zombie troops, wielding all manner of high-tech directed-energy weaponry with murderous efficiency and precision.
Last, but not least, six-limbed beasts standing 10 feet tall with blade-tipped scorpion-like tails led the horde, holding swords and guns made from their own flesh, which was almost as hard as diamond, but much thicker!
The celestial hammer of judgement had fallen upon Kaurava.
And with that, the world of Avatar was torn from its isolated position in the cosmos, and violently forced into a new era...
But what could these mere mortals possibly do to fight back against their new tormenters from the sky?
The answer lies within the Avatar and the Star Child... they are both connected to powers far greater than anything purely restricted to this one planet.
PART 4 END
Wow... I haven't updated my fanfiction in 2 months. My procrastination is getting to be a real problem, as I've now spent 2 years on this website, writing and publishing these stories in my spare time for fun, but procrastination and writer's block aren't the only issues that have been bothering me.
I've been juggling multiple projects this year, including an original comic book concept called The Limit Breakers, basically an ode to the classic superhero story during Marvel Comics and DC Comics' golden age, with a combination of storytelling elements and tropes from Invincible, the Reckoners, and even My Hero Academia! I honestly don't know a good place where I can publish such a story concept, though.
On top of that, I've also got that Disney Smash Bros fanfic to work on, Five Kingdoms, which recieved a reboot this year, because I want an actually GOOD platform fighter game to live up to the huge standards and hype of the Smash Bros series, because Multiversus ended up full of greedy microtransactions, crash-causing glitches, and other issues.
Going back to the main subject, which is this new chapter of Hammer Of The Elements, I wouldn't call it my best work, because the previous chapter (where Krishna fought Aang) was made after I watched numerous tutorials on how to write epic fight scenes.
This time, I just wanted to write a chapter without doing the extra step of watching a 45-minute lesson on YouTube detailing how to write a massive army battle, where the major characters of the story lead the army. I also needed to update Hammer Of The Elements sooner rather than later, because I couldn't stand procrastinating any longer.
I apologize for the two month delay and if this chapter came out somewhat half-baked. I've got a lot in my mind to write down and organize, after all, and the story projects and all the other ideas I'm trying to multitask between have made things kind of stressful.
Feel free to let me know about any issues you have with this chapter in a review!
And we're nearing the grand conclusion of the Chronicles of Kaurava arc... you probably already know where the alien meteor drop pods came from, if you read Part 1, "The Inevitable Change Approaches."
The Warhammer stuff is finally coming into play now, so writing this conclusion will be quite interesting.
-Spuddies
