Part 1 - Multiple places during the impact
"GYYAAHH WHAT´S GOING ON?" Fabiola and the sisters hold each other as the earth trembles. Magdalena creates a barrier with her power; Griselda and Carolina reinforce her as the massive wind heads towards them.
Griselda looks at Maria and begins to say; "Maria, you need to hang in there, MARIA!"
Maria is on her knees as she says; "My son has died, Uriel died on the battlefield." Valerie and the others are in shock, Valerie gets into her knees and says; "Daniel, please tell me that it's a lie, please!"
Daniel looks at Valerie with tears in his eyes an shakes his head. The shockwave hits them causing a massive dust cloud to form.
In the base where Sabia Regueli was, Victoria and Angela feel the earth shaking, "What´s going on here?"
"Darius use the Sharur to break the earth cortex, it's time for us to move." Raul replies as they see the monitor. Aleister left the base and headed to another location. Marjorie looks at the screen with tears in her eyes. Victoria grabs shoulder and asks sarcastically; "Aww, don't tell me you´re actually sad that your lover is dead."
Marjorie looks at Victoria and replies; "He´s not dead, I can't still sense him, he is still alive."
"Oh, boo-hoo, well if he is alive, he will die soon, Darius won't allow him to live." Victoria laughs, Marjorie stands up with manna coming out of her body, and she walks towards the exit and says:
"It´s time to leave."
In a mountain, two people stand observing the giant crack Darius made with the sharur. "Master Dimitru, don't you think he overdid it?" One of the figures asks Dimitru, Dimitru walks forward and replies;
"No Aleister, this power was necessary to reveal the Golden City? Let's observe for now and see that your father completes the mission."
In a magic circle located 100 meters above the ground, Alexa and Juan look at the massive destruction. Alexa looks at the ground and says; "So that´s the power of the 16 treasures?"
"Not quite, the Sharur can cause more damage than this but Darius only used, I say about 70% of its power. I guess the Sharur is to much even for an Abaddon. "Juan senses someone calling him and looks at Alexa, "Hija, I will have to go to my realm, I was summoned, please take care of my body okay." Alexa nods in agreement, Juan enters in a state of meditation.
The impact of the sharur caused a massive earthquake that people in the Pyramid located in Mexico could feel it. Among them, Xochitl and Ahide. In the northwestern part, the Sasquatch tribe felt it too; in the Eastern part people from Great Bay city, Empire City and Capital city are in panic with the SIA investigating.
Part 2 – Golden City of Cibola
The shockwave ends leaving only an enormous dust loud with some lightning coming out sometimes. Darius floats in the sky breathing heavily as he says; "I think I over did it, but it doesn't matter because now the city has appeared."
Darius begins to descend to the city, in a corner surrounded by boulders a small golden sphere emerges from them. Allan and Heidi are in their knees with their arms extended with two talismans that have the kanji symbol of "保護" (Protection), they undo the seal as both of them breathe heavily. Shion opens her eyes and asks; "Are we dead yet? Or are we alive?"
"Fortunately, we survived Shion, thanks to them." Katsumi points at both of them. Allan looks at Heidi and with a smile says; "You did great dear, I´m sorry but I reached my limit hear."
"Me too, I don't think I can fight anymore." Heidi replies with an exhausted tone. –Cough, cough- Uriel coughs up blood again, Katsumi and Shion look at him and say; "Uriel, he still dying, we must save him."
"Shion, use the Saito technique of soul removal, the sword has soul of its own, Katsumi perform a healing spell and try to keep him alive. Meanwhile we…"
"YOU WILL STAY THERE ALLAN CARTER…" Everyone hears a voice coming from above, Darius descend and stands in front of the, Allan and Heidi try to stand up but they are too tired to do so.
"Don't bother; I won't kill you because I already fulfill my objective. Look around you…" The moon illuminates the whole area revealing the tru place where everyone was standing.
The place appears as a giant cave with pieces of stones and earth falling down with what´s left of Sun City. A golden city with hundreds of golden houses surrounding 7 golden temples; the roads, the water and everything there is made of gold. In the city, there are thousands and thousands of Golden statues, each statue pointing at the biggest temple located in the center. The temples resemble Mayan architecture with thousands of steps that go all the way up. Six of the temples are forming a circle with the major temple in the middle. At the top of the golden temple there is an altar with seven locks and what it appears to be a door.
"WELCOME TO THE FINAL CITY OF GOLD; CIBOLA!" Darius screams as he extends his arms, everybody is in shock as they see the environment. Darius makes his sharur come to his arm.
Suddenly a portal appears behind him, everyone begins to feel cold as young woman with white hair and a silver dress appears from the portal. Everyone is paralyzed as they feel her freezing manna.
"You´re late Alexandria" Darius says with a smile, Alexandria looks at him with cold eyes and replies; "I was already here, but did not want to get caught in the blast."
"Very well let´s go then." Darius begins to walk towards the temple, Alexandria looks at Uriel with the sword in his stomach, and she turns around and touches her chest feeling her heart beat.
(BADUMP, BADUMP)
"Is something the matter?" Darius asks Alexandria, without any expression, Alexandria replies; "No, it´s nothing, let's keep going."
Darius and Alexandria walk down the Golden Aisle heading towards the largest temple, Darius smiles and begins to explain:
"As we walk, I´m going to tell you a story; Hundreds of years ago, after the sealing of the Beast of Revelation, and the creation of the Horsemen, there was a civilization that lived in this particular area. They were known as the Cibola tribe; a powerful group known for its complete dominion of manna."
"I see, can you shut up now? Your voice is annoying." Alexandria says with an emotionless expression.
"The Cibola tribe lived in peace with nature. Thanks to the rich manna, their temples and buildings, along with the streets and water became golden. They guarded a treasure, that treasure was locked down in the gate below the temple in which they denominated as "The Gates of the Underworld."
"I understand, now please shut up. " Alexandria says as they walk along the road. Darius continues to explain:
"Now here comes the mysterious part. For some reason, they were attacked by unknown forces who wanted that treasure stored away in the temple; the Cibola tribe faced countless battles against a race we know as Vampires."
"Seriously, you annoying." Alexandria sighs with her eyes close.
"Vampires are undead people who can suck away manna and turn those who they killed as puppets. It is unknown how the vampires got into the New World before Christopher Columbus but they were here and attacked the tribe. The members of the tribe decided to lock away that treasure forever and created Seven Golden Keys. The Golden Keys we needed to search for…"
"Shut up already…"
"Before that, do you know why there are Golden Statues?"
"No, and I don't care just shut up…"
"The golden statues are the people who lived in this city, after separating the keys, a person who had a great ambition tries to open the gates with just one but e was punish, and because of that, nature punish everyone in the city. Now going back to the Golden Keys, the seven golden keys were separated across the continent."
"Oh, so interesting…" Alexandria rolls her eyes and replies with a sarcastic tone.
���The keys were distributed to the following; Honduras in the Mayan territory, Peru in Machu Pichu, Mexico City, New Mexico, Brazil and Florida and the Borderland."
This time Alexandria doesn't respond and only sees the moon.
"The cities were given different names but I am not sure about their meanings; Matsuki, Kiakima, Halona, Hawikuh, Quiviral, Kwakina and Cibola. In each city there was already one civilization, the survivors of the tragedy took the keys and gave them to those civilization. After that, the empires grew stronger and larger, however they succumb to greed and tried to get more power and that is when they were destroyed."
They arrive to the temple, Darius continues to speak; "Now then, the six temples represent the six cities, and this one is Cibola the Seventh, in here lies the treasure that my organization wants. In order to that, two important things needed to be accomplished."
Alexandria begins to climb the stairs with Darius floating as he explains:
"First we needed the seven keys, and in order to do that I needed to know the locations of them. That is when I discovered that Roberto Vazquez, Uriel´s father knew the locations. After I lost to him, Juan de la Trinidad, Uriel´s master gave me the locations he got from your sister Isabella. We collected each one, but according to the ancient writings we found here in the Borderland, we needed the blood of a witch and not just any witch. We needed the blood of Lilith Draculus because it was thanks to her that the keys were created."
"How is that possible? My mother was only in south Asia when that happened."
"There was a theory of a supercontinent that existed before, Pangea, I don't know how but many civilizations were connected thousands of years ago. Remember, all manna is connected. Now then, I could have used Marjorie for this, but she doesn't have enough power. So we needed one of Lilith´s daughter to cooperate with us."
"So you needed one of us? Why?"
"To open the gates that´s why, now Theodora is in Africa, Irene is nowhere to be found. Eleanor refuse to help and Isabella also refused. That´s why we need you, Alexandria."
"So I was not your first action ehh, I am not a replacement you know."
Darius laughs and replies; "No, no you are just as important as the others; we knew that you wouldn't say no. Now then, you were dead until a couple of weeks ago remember. That´s why we used Uriel to help us with your revival and everything went as planned."
Darius and Alexandria arrive at the altar, Darius puts his arm up and begins to say; "Let´s begin this ritual."
The Moon gets tainted in complete red illuminating the entire area with a crimson color. "Finally, we needed the Blood Moon in order to fulfill this ritual. It is said that the Red Moon was used to seal it away, now it's time to bring it back.
Alexandria makes the keys appear, she begins to put each key in their locks, each time she turns a lock. A giant mirror appears on the top of a temple next to the one they're in. Alexandria turns six out of the seven. Six mirrors appear in the top of the temples, the light of the red moon gets reflected on the mirrors, the mirrors point at the large temple causing them illuminate the altar. Alexandria turns the last lock, the altar begins to elevate to where the lights are shining.
"Now then, the final touch my blood in order to open these gates." Alexandria makes a cut in her hand and begins to drop it in the doors that are below. The altar slowly opens revealing a mirror pointing down to the gates. The light reflects at the mirror and it begins to slowly open the gates. Darius laughs with excitement:
"FINNALLY, I´VE WAITED MY WHOLE LIFE FOR THIS"
"Darius what is that treasure you are speaking off?" Alexandria asks Darius with a nervous face. Darius looks at Alexandria and replies:
"THE CREATIOR OF MANNA;A PHILOSOPHER STONE!"
"A WHAT?"
(BBBBBBOOOOMMM)
A giant ray of red manna destroys the altar and emerges to the sky reaching towards the cloud. Darius with great excitement screams:
"THIS IS WHAT THE ENLIGHTENED WANT, THE POWER OF REALITY!"
Alexandria looks at the manna ray, as she begins to perceive an object emerging from the altar. The souls of the people in the region get absorbed into the object; over 10,000 souls that were killed in the war disappear. The object emerges completely destroying the mirrors located in the temples.
Darius and Alexandria observe the events as she thinks; "What have I done?"
Meanwhile, as the Philosopher stone emerges, Allan and his group begin to help Uriel:
"Very well, let's save Uriel, I will create another barrier." Allan says as he takes out three talismans and creates a sphere to surround them. Heidi begins touches Uriel´s arm and says:
"I will slowly freeze him and try to control his body temperature in order to keep him alive."
Katsumi creates a magic circle and touches Uriel´s stomach as she says; "I will begin to cure him, Shion, please hurry."
Shion grabs the sword and closes her eyes chanting; "Spirits of the Ancestors, guide this soul to leave this body; Tamashi no Jokyo" (Soul Removal) Uriel´s hair color turns into blue again. Shion begins to slowly remove Uriel´s sword as she continues to chant, Katsumi with tears in her eyes reads Uriel´s pulse and feels it weakening. WHAT HAPPENED? THE SWORD DID PASS TRHOUGH ME…
(BADUMP…BADUMP…)
"Hold on Uriel, please don't die, stay with me, Uriel!"
(BADUMP…BADUMP…)
AM I GOING TO DIE?
In the "realm" where Uriel floats near the cube that Nemesio warned him about, a hooded figure emerges from it as it heads towards Uriel:
"IT´S TIME FOR YOUR AWAKENING, HORSEMAN OF WAR!"