~Before the war~
•Oceane's P.O.V.•
After the massive and destructive battle with Serus' uncontrolled monster, we went to our house to get him cured by Arlo's power, but nothing's working on him.
"He's not waking up. His nerves are active, but his body is still asleep." Arlo said.
"His soul is not there. I can't feel him inside the body." Mason added.
"What should we do?" Grey asked with a worried expression.
"Stay here with him." Our father, Edward Fatum, said with his eyes despairing.
"What?" Beatrix asked with a puzzling utterance.
"I said stay here with him. There will be a war coming, and I don't want you all to be involved too." he replied.
"What do you mean by 'a war coming', dad." I asked with my face shocked.
"The Telum clan called out a war against us. I did deny it at first, but then someone tricked us and there your mother and I got captured. I can't describe the culprit, but I'm sure he's the one who controlled me to agree to the war declaration." said dad.
"Is.....mother still alive?" Vita uneasily asked.
"I.....don't know. But she told me something before we got separated from each other." father uttered.
"What is it, dad?" I asked.
" 'He can be anything, anyone, and anywhere. Don't let him fool you, because he might be the cause of all of this. I will come back for you.' That's what your mother told me." he said.
Everybody in the room went silent, including me. I thought she was dead, because of what dad said a while ago. But knowing that he doesn't know, there might be a chance for her to be alive. Everyone sees me as a calm person, but they don't know that I'm also struggling.
"Move away!" Arlo concurrently shouted with the blast that hit our home.
"Where are you?! Are you kids alright?" dad yelled and called.
"We're fine, dad. What was that?" I asked.
"They started the war already. All of you stay away as far as possible." our dad commanded.
"We need to get Serus to his home. I feel that there's something in his home that will save him." Mason said.
"I will go with you." I said.
"Me too." Grey uttered.
"I will stay with dad." Arlo uttered with a sense of passion.
"Us too." Vita said, along with Blaze and Beatrix.
"I told you to get out of--" dad was interrupted by Arlo.
"No. If you're going to push us away, then what have you trained me for?" Arlo uttered.
"Arlo is right, dad. This might be the opportunity that we could show you our powers too. Don't you want that?" Beatrix continued to convince our father.
"Fine, but you'll stay behind me and follow my instructions. Is that clear?"
"Yes." Blaze said.
"We'll go to Serus' house." Mason said.
"Just be careful." dad uttered.
"See you later." Grey said.
We separated paths and moved onto our own destinations. Serus' house isn't that far from ours, it's just a walk-in-distance trip. We walked fast, but careful with Serus in Mason's arms. We are nearing to the house, then a man blocked our way.
"Hold it. Is that.....Serus?" he uttered.
"Who is that?" I asked.
"That's Ryan T. Cortez. Serus' guardian." Grey said.
"Come here." he invited us in Serus' house. We approached the house slowly, thinking that it will be safe already.
"Wait." Mason uttered.
"What's wrong?" I asked. His face went from being passionate to a confused and despairing one.
"His soul is abnormal." he pointed at Ryan.
"What do you mean?" Grey asked.
"Normally, a human's soul is uniform, but his is transforming into something else." he explained.
"What are you waiting for?!" Ryan shouted.
"I don't trust him." Mason whispered to us.
"We can handle Serus and take him to his house. We'll just call you if he wakes up." I assured Ryan.
"Pitiful buffoons. You'll just let yourselves get killed." Ryan changed a tone of voice.
He waved his hand horizontally, then the place moved in an extreme manner. Space went wide and narrow, trees grew and shrunk simultaneously, and our bodies functioned abnormally.
"What's happening to us?" Grey uttered.
"You're seeing the power of the Alpha King. Sooner or later, your bodies will be nothing except dust." Ryan grinned wickedly.
"You're him. You are Mnemos Telum. Why are you doing this?" I asked.
"You're not in the position to question me, but I might as well give you the details." he snickered.
"The thing is I hate everything in this world, and I want everyone and everything to perish. But the Telum overlord, my father, will stop me if he knew it. So, I thought of another idea." Ryan uttered.
"The Telum leader never waged war upon us. It was you!" Grey yelled.
"Correct, and they're all under my control. The plan being held by the master is working. My part will be done if I only have Serus at my grasp."
"We'll never give in Serus." Grey yelled.
"Oh, you will give him to me. After all, I control the events within my grasps." Mnemos' eyes began to glow and all of us felt weird. I started to notice that we're losing control of ourselves. After those confusing feeling, I see my body move by itself along with the bodies of both Mason and Grey. I realized that all I am now was a submissive consciousness to my own body.
"Help!" I tried to screamed,but it's only silence that I hear.
"Serus is yours now, master." I heard my body say those words and handed over Serus to Mnemos.
"I told you that you'll be giving him to me." Mnemos ended it with a wicked laugh.
"Now, I order you to destroy your fellow Fatums and after that, destroy yourselves." he continued.
"Please, my family, be ready." I hoped to myself.
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~Meanwhile~
•Beatrix's P.O.V.•
Together with my family, we traveled in the city. Everything is still looks like a city, except that it was already destroyed.
"Looks like we're missing the party already." I uttered.
"The whole city was destroyed. I can't believe I failed." said Arlo in a sad state.
"You can still redeem yourself big bro Arlo, since there are people trapped there at the building up ahead." Vita pointed at the building in front of us.
"Help us please!" a woman screamed.
Arlo jumped out and started to help the victims using his body manipulating powers. By enlarging his fists and elongating his arms, he saved the people from the collapsing building.
"Is everybody okay?" Arlo asked the citizens.
"We saw an army of golden armor and weapons. Everybody along with us panicked. They say they were going to defeat you superheroes. We don't want any part of this war." said one of the citizens.
"We understand. Please leave now, before you got hurt more." requested Arlo.
The citizens went out of the city in a peaceful manner.
"Look out!" warned Vita while a huge blast is coming right at us.
"Ha!" Blaze performed a barrier made up of flames to absorb the blast and blocked it.
"The Fatums are found. Destroy them all." a voice uttered.
"The one ordered that command is the Telum Overlord isn't it?" Blaze uttered.
"Ready yourselves!" our father commanded.
Vita unsheathed her weapons, Blaze has his fire form, Arlo has his two, big fists, and our dad released his other several crystalline dragon-heads from his back.
"Beatrix, where are your weapons?" dad asked me.
"Anything can be a weapon, as well as the mind, right dad? If that's the case, let me have the first strike."
I held out my hand while the Telum soldiers are approaching. I focused a lot of my energy onto my hand.
"Strike them!" the Telum Overlord ordered the soldiers. They began to shoot those energy beams right at me.
"Ars Claustrum." I casted the energy from my hand and barricaded the blasts. the barricade then reflected the blasts back at the shooters, and destroyed their vehicles.
"Now that's what a real weapon do." uttered Vita.
"You're too weak, Overlord Gabriel." Arlo uttered.
"Underestimating me too early is your greatest mistake." the overlord spoke.
"Send in the Emdelion king!" he continued.
"Emdelion King? Lycino?!" I was shocked.
"Send forth your troops, Emdelion king, and together we'll destroy the Fatums!"
"How did the Emdelion King got involved in this mess?" Blaze asked.
"He was forced by those Telums. The whole Emdelion Clan's forest will be destroyed along with the creatures living in it. So, he had no other choice, but to surrender." I spoke.
"How did you know all those stuff?" Blaze asked me.
"Through reading his mind, duh." I replied.
"Uhh....guys? Do you like trolls? Because I sure see a hundred of them approaching us, and with an armor too." Vita pointed up ahead.
"Destroy...them." Lycino can't look upon us, and he tried to hesitate.
The war started while we're outnumbered. We are battling each other all-out. Technological weapons, energy blasts, mystic creatures are brawling with one another.
"There's no hope left for you, Fatums." the Overlord spoke.
"You can't say those words again, because they're behind us now." Blaze uttered.
"It's Oceane and the others!" Vita yelled.
"Where's Serus?" Blaze asked them. I felt something weird about their aura, it's like they're not in control.
"Stay away from them." I asked the others to do so.
"Why?" Vita asked.
"Destroy all Fatums." Grey, Mason, and Oceane uttered simulataneously.
"And that's the reason why you should stay away."
"Actually, Overlord Gabriel, you can mention it again." Vita uttered.
"There's no hope left for you Fatums." Overlord Gabriel spoke.
A battle began between us and the Telum clan along with the Emdelion army and my brainwashed siblings. It was tiring, exhausting.
"Can you still fight, Beatrix?" Arlo asked me.
"Of course." I replied.
"For an outnumbered side, we're pretty much a strong team against them all." Blaze uttered.
"This child's play is over!" Overlord Gabriel ascended to the skies and shot a barrage of large energy beams right at us.
"Take cover!" our dad created a huge crystal blockade to guard us from the beams, but it was too powerful and it even destroyed the barriers.
"What are we gonna do now?" asked Vita.
"Use your full power." our father said.
"Let's fire it up! Noxia Fatum: Sear." Blaze turned to his ultimate form of fire.
"Let's do this. Noxia Fatum: Transform!" Arlo has the power of body manipulation, if he activates his Zenith, then his powers exceeds too. Instead of just controlling his body, he could also transform it into any creature that he knows of.
"Too bad me and Vita still haven't unlocked our Zeniths yet, but we can help."
"You already helped much, my girls. You need to hide and rest for a while." our father told us.
"But--"
"That's an order, Beatrix." he said with a smile on his face.
"....If that's what you want, dad. Just be careful, we don't want to lose you again." uttered Vita.
"Don't be silly, Vita. Your dad's a multi-headed dragon remember? Together with your older brothers, we could stop them, and bring back your other siblings." dad said.
I left our father along with Vita. We hid from the battle between the two sides, and watched the battle. We found a small, intact building, and hid inside there.
"We can't just leave them there." concerned Vita.
"I know, Vita, but we're ordered to stay here. And I agree with dad's judgment. We can't be reckless down there, it's too dangerous." I replied.
"But I can at least watch them in a closer view." I continued.
"How?"
"Astral Mind Projection."
"Oh yeah, why didn't I thought of that?" she thought.
"Well, I'll do it now. Foris Corpus." I uttered one of my skills. This skill enables my conscious mind to get out of my body, but the body should be hidden or I'll be in danger.
"Protect my body Vita, while I watch the battle. I'll tell you what happened later."
"I got this, big sis Beatrix." I left from the building and went to the battle, unseen.
Dad and my brothers are having a hard time, even with their full power. Arlo and Blaze are fighting with Grey, Mason, and Oceane, while my Dad is fighting the Telum and Emdelion army with his true form revealed.
"You aren't as strong as you were before, Edward." the Overlord uttered to my dad.
"I can say the same to you, Gabriel." my dad replied.
"I am indeed weak, but I made a few adjustments to my body, thanks to the Alpha King."
"Mnemos? Why would he---" something crashed on the battlefield. Or rather 'someone'.
"I did all of this for one reason, and that reason is to exterminate humanity." the person who crashed uttered.
"Mnemos? You were the one behind all this mess? Why?" my dad is shocked as I am too. Mnemos, the Alpha King, a good friend of our family did this?
"I just said it a while ago, fool. Time for you and your petty family to bite the dust." Mnemos uttered.
"You can't possibly do that. You're our friend, Duskaea's friend. Doing this stuff isn't the Mnemos I know." my father tried to talk Mnemos out of it.
"Guess what? I am not the 'Mnemos' you knew before, and here's the twist. I'm the one who killed Duskaea." Mnemos.......is the one who killed Duskaea?!
"Why, you bastard!" my father burst lightning bolts from his mouth, and several of his heads came lunging towards Mnemos.
"You can never defeat me, Edward, especially now since Duskaea is dead." Mnemos repelled every one of those heads.
While I watch the battle, I heard something approaching. Something rushing with fire. I looked behind my back, and there I saw a meteor coming. In my astral mind form, I am intangible. So, there's nothing to worry about. I used my power to redirect it's trajectory, and lead it somewhere that has no people in it. Then it crashed there in the damaged buildings.
"Impressive, Beatrix." I heard a voice.
"Who---" I was hit by that guy. Mnemos punched me in the face and blasted me, phasing through the buildings with my uncontrolled presence.
"How.....can you touch me? How can you appear in two places simultaneously?" I took a damage.
"Beatrix, has your father ever told you what power I truly hold? I hold the power to change this reality, the power to change what happened and what I desire to happen. All of you should fall and bow beneath my feet."
"That is if you still have the feet we should bow under to." since I'm in my astral mind form, I can transform my body parts, or even my whole body into any weapon. I turned my arms into blades and attempted to cut Mnemos' feet. I fought him with my power, but it was still useless.
"Is that all you've got? Well, here's what I've got in store just for you!" he began to charge up an energy-like ball within his hands. This orb contains the darkest colors a human could've known.
"Dying by my hands will be an eternity of humiliation" he threw the orb to me, and the orb traveled fast. But before I was hit, the last thing I know was that I'm in my body again.
"What?" I thought to myself.
"Heya sis. I saw you battling that bad guy, and I sure was glad that I was there to get you out of there." uttered Vita.
"How did you--"
"I used your body to contain your astral mind form, and there I was able to save you. And hid from the man. Who is he anyway?" Vita asked.
"He was a friend of our family."
"Wait, is that Mnemos, the Alpha King?! He sure does look powerful."
"Where are you, foolish imbeciles?! Are you terrified now? Well, you should be."
"I think this man needs some beating." Vita said.
"Wait, no, don't rush-----." I tried to stop her.
"Hey, old weirdo!"
"In." I lately continued.
"Finally, time to finish this whole charade. But first, I need you with the others, after all they're almost at the brink of their defeat too." Mnemos spoke.
"Hey, wait--" he teleported us onto the battlefield.
"Beatrix. Vita." my father approached us.
"Give up, Fatums. We won this war." the Overlord uttered. My two brothers were unconscious, and my other three siblings are still under control of the enemy.
"I'm sorry, my sons and daughters. I can't even save your siblings, or even win this war. I'm sorry I brought this doom to all of you."
"Father...." I uttered.
"Bring me Edward Fatum!" the Telum soldiers held my father on his arms. We tried to pull him, but we're no good.
"Watch your father suffer, and have the same fate later!" they continuously stabbed my father slowly, with his moans and painful groans.
"Father!" Vita cried.
"Stop this!" I shouted at them, crying my tears out too.
"A wonderful sight of tragedy. We will hand over your father to you in one condition."
"Anything." I said.
"Bow to me, along with your little sister. Then call me 'God Mnemos'!"
"You---"
"We had a deal."
"God.....Mnemos." my little sister and I bowed before him. As moments passed by we heard a call. A call similar to a bird. We saw something. It glows with blazing flames and igniting streaks. It shines with its bright, red flame feathers.
"Our last hope is finally here." I said.
"This can't be happening......I killed him already. And with his memories buried, the Phoenix shouldn't have the ability of reviving its host more than one time." Mnemos was shocked.
"This war ends now, Mnemos!" Serus uttered with confidence, and with his eyes glowed with pride and courage. Our last hope is already here. The war will be over soon, but this story is far from being over. We will still look for our mother. We will end this war, and build peace again.