This...Is a soul whose bleak and hollow life makes me sad even walking past their tombs...What happened to make him like this you may ask? He is a king of a powerful kingdom and obviously feared even by his closest family...Yes yes but power can be achieved in the shadows in ways that don't involve surrendering your sanity and will and becoming a monster that is a tarnish on the father's good name...I know if his old man was still alive he would have beaten him so badly he might even be crippled now...Hm? Ah yes you wish to know more on what the False Heroes will do...Why care about their families history right?...Anyway well why don't we resume where we left them last. Preparing to fight a foe that is nothing like they have faced before.
The city streets were loud and happy. Shouting about the return of their prince before being interrupted by a monstrous blast from below, all now running and panicking, grabbing weapons of all kinds before making their way to the palace screaming how they wish to serve the crown to the guards only for them to tell them it is not necessary, falling on deaf ears while the blasts noise was getting louder, the ground started shaking more violently before one booming tremor made the crowd stop and turn before smiling in unison and shouting,
''Lord Drax!! We need to help the crown!! Prince Seirei will not be taken from us!''
A man that seemed to be half human, half dragon with scales of bronze and eyes of silver with a black slit running down the middle and a tail to match with a singular horn on his left side with the right side broken, breathing a grey steam that touched the head of the pitchfork before melting it in seconds as he began to spoke,
''People please me and Stitches are struggling enough with the young Prince's return and need more time! Please return to your houses and remain until I have given the all clear understood?!''
The crowd all dispersed quickly before behind the guards a pile of putrid smoke rose with souls making contorted faces screaming as the spin around, he spoke with the sound of five voices being mixed into one,
''Drax are they really going to do that to Seirei?''
''Apparently..But not if I can stop it..Go to them in the power core while I go and try to contact Dracul...He might be asleep after all.''
The abomination seeped into the shadows once more before The draconic stretched out his left hand over his head and grabbed at his elbow with his right like the prince before looking over the city marvelling at its beauty then returning his thoughts to his royal charge.
'So Sei what are you going by these days hmm...Willabaar? Seirei? You always liked the stories of your old man's masters so did you take one of their names this time? I hope you find your identity soon kid.'
The draconic entity pondered as his body consumed the light of the burning sun as he moved like tar he consumed the heat his body moved like a falcon towards the pedestal of a dark beings skull enraptured by arcane crystals and fluids.
A blur of red slung across the cave into it's shining wall, crashing hard and making the rubble fall around the crack, making the goblin look back in confusion only for the light of magic water to be shadowed by the king lifting his toes into his ribs and lifting him before he felt a hand stop him from going any higher, pinching the little man, now at eye length with him before leaning in,
''Death will NOT be quick little silver fox...I wonder why that piece of trash even kept you arou-''
He released the little man swinging his body gracefully around to meet the hand of Jericho, The king taking a much more relaxed stance while the pious one seemed to take a aggressive one, he moved trying to bring his open palm into the king's chest only for him to vanish and bring his ankle down into Jericho's shoulder, making a cracking sound before Jericho grabbed the kings ankles and swung him aggressively into the wall where the demon was slammed in to, making the same impact but getting up instantly and laughing louder, a aura of toxic purple now bubbling around him to Jericho's anger,
''You...You did THAT?! How dare you steal the sample, did you?!''
Zandar's laugh came to a pause before turning his head, neck cracking with every inch before he spoke,
''Oh of course dear brother...Father was an idiot. You all are idiots. All this power just to submit?! The war was just a waste of lives and now I will save us all by mixing this new power with that stupid bird god you worship...Now that I mention it..I should grab little Willabaar so I can achieve this..It has been fun sparring with you again Jericho.''
For a second Jericho believed that he heard his old brother before he vanished, making the fallen one speak,
''Where has he gone?''
''''To find Seirei...He will bring him here but the only question is...He knows we are here so he might just kill him beforehand on a higher layer.''
The fallen rushed to the small goblin, sending pulses of glowing light though his leg extending it out and back to normal place then gathering some of the healing paste he stole from Silver, rubbing it into the exposed wound, mending the incision around the gel relieving the pain of the small one. Turning his face and pulling Wilt to his feet not having time to think about any uncomfortable effects. The two royals seemed to sink off into the corner before Orelia came over to Wilt and Kyu,
''You should check on Bee he is kind of stuc-''
The wall behind erupted into brimstone and shoot out, some entering the water and instantly becoming nothing more than red dust sparkling in the bright blue before the dwarf shouted while slightly slurring,
''COME ON THEN YA DULL FUCK! I'LL KILL...ya..''
He noticed the group all circling the goblin and still confused moved into the crew and asked,
''So where is that creepy fuck?''
''He seems to have gone after Willabaar''
''Kyu...It's Seirei..Ya should know by now.''
''Your right you would know your husbands name more''
Her face blushed before she walked over to the two royals
Kyu looked for the first time not confused as he proclaimed
''Everyone just do what you did at the tournament ok? It should work out just fine''
Bee wiping the dust and dirt off his body looked over to Wilt with a look of happiness then back to Kyu lifting his hammers clicking his neck.
''Bird...Not that I don't like ya being more normal sounding but I was out for half the fight and the time was fighting the royal bastard. So i have no idea what you mean''
Wilt checked through his supplies before he chirped in.
''Kyu sorry to burst your bubble or anything but i'm out of the toxic stuff down to smoke, sparks a minor bit of sleep powder and that random vile we got.''
''Don't worry about it. Should be more than enough, Now we need to save Willa- Seirei.''
Wilt rolled his eyes responding
"Well birdy what ya got in mind?"
"Oh it's should work I've had time to think about it"
Willabaar pulled the vines from around his chest, ranching himself upwards while catching his breath, pulling himself onto the rooftop as he thought aloud,
"..damm..it..guess he didn't skip training…farther give me strength"
Looking around seeing his brother around twenty feet away, raising his hands parallel to his body and hands open seemingly preparing to clap,
"Oh little brother, are you feeling up to play some tag? Bored of hide and seek I see"
The half-mix pulled a blade of wind from nothing, throwing it to his brothers chest, The older brother brings his hand in to clap the blade being only a foot away as the mad king's hands were only an inch from clapping together, the blade extended out with wind creating a sharp barrier between his brother's hands. Zandar having caught the winds in his hands before the king relieved his brother set an illusion around the blade as he was relieved too late, He misjudged his younger counterpart, the blade sliding past his hands then into his lower ribs in between his Orcish interlaced bones, leaving his hands now sliced open and pouring with blood. Zandar was losing concentration as the crimson spurted from his ribs into the open air,
"Oh so the little one learnt a parlour trick while he was away?….DON'T YOU FOR A MOMENT THINK THIS MEANS ANYTHING...Now little brother I'll show you what a real son of Bocaj can do."
Zandar said, ripping the blade from that was passing into his bones, throwing it back towards Seirei while was sprouting an incantation,
"Using the storms against one born in the eye is useless. Disperse and sore around the world by way of my brothers heart.''
Seirei sees the blade careening towards him, carrying a payload of razor sharp gales around the blade's edge. Reacting on instinct, dropping his body to the tiled roof, bringing his left hand down to the ground before using to to springboard himself, Pirouetting his legs around, bringing down the flat of his foot meeting the blades guard, rebounding it into the city's sky as shadows enveloping his body before splitting into two and darting towards his brother, the two Gi's of golden yellow and one of pitch black now blurring as limbs flying out at each other, one of the orange blurs was kicked above with a rising knee to the ribs but was grabbed at the ankle by the other one, swinging him like a Warhammer in a speedy rotation while the weaponized one used the momentum to bring his free leg up, leaving a trail of gold not moving fast enough to stay with its limb, connecting with the kings jaw and resonation the sound of crunching bone as the king flew thirty feet in the air in seconds, he turned his body and started his maniacal laugh.
''WELL WELL LITTLE WILLABAAR BECAME STRONG DID HE?!...I will enjoy taking your power as my own...I wish to climb the countless steps...Give me everything so my body becomes nothing more than a husk of emptiness''
He looked down at his brother before his vision become clouded with a single tear, speaking to himself one last time,
''Good luck...Seirei.''
His body was enveloped with a putrid violet looking more toxic than before and steaming off in mists that hissed like a snake, now darting towards his brother, apon contact the entire roof of the palace seemed to fly into the sky, now broken and shattered flying all around and landing on the city like meteorites, The king kept his younger brother as he went through layer after layer until hitting the cold cave floor next to the rising water, Zandar looked at his brother now out cold on the floor before looking at the well, noticing a white shine from his brothers body, shifting his Gi he saw a symbol of a phoenix getting brighter, the king tried to move knowing now he hit the clone but as he thought this his vision was blinded in pure white, loud rings travelling through his ears only hearing the sounds of muffled voices before he thought,
''You wish to play dirty? Oh I can do that.''
In a second the aura that surrounded him spread far, pushing the noises he heard out of distance but now heard a clear deep voice in his head,
''You want power?! Prove it you worthless king! I will not accept failure!''
The king's eyes were opening again and could see all the crew his little brother brought out cold with cracks in the wall behind where they slumped, His other two siblings were also in the same position and his youngest brother's clone was no longer their, he thought to himself,
''Ah...So pathetic..Time to stuff my new doll while I wait for Seirei..Where is that Azamaar?''
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Kyu heard the deranged comment, looking at the mad king clutching a couple bags of powder before lunging one of them towards Zandar, he moved as quickly his body allowed on the smooth part of the floor avoiding as much debris as possible, the bags contents seemed to spill into the open air, catalysing and releasing grey smoke just a couple feet away from his target, pulling his blade from its small scabbard leaping to putting his back of the pommel punching forwards just as a wind seemed to expand from the spot Zandar was in the world seeming stopping before Kyu continued his attack hitting nothing but smoke and the cloth of the bag sending a large plume of smoke that surrounded the cave like room in a veil of danger. Realising the king had somehow seen his actions coming Kyu embraced the smoke as a veil of protecting knowing if he could not see Zandar he could plan ahead only as he took one step back to hit a wall of hard muscles as two arms moved in between his armpits to his chest feeling intense strength Zandar whispered into the Azamaars ear
"I don't want my little toy getting dirty let me clean you up"
Zandar's grip intensified around the fallens cheats as he felt the air ripped out like a constrictor snake, his strength seemingly getting more every passing second. Kyu seemed to say something but the words were not a cohesive move like the sound of a drowning cat than a man, to Zandar's pleasures as he bends down lower forcing his nose right into the fallens ear before saying.
"Was that a little too rough for you? Or are you just excited for later, speak up my little play thing I want to hear you moan some more"
Loosening his grip just enough for the angel to say the words.
"Now or never Jericho"
At these words Zandar sent a knee into Kyu's lower spine before moving him onto his back and thawing him towards where he remembered Jericho to be as he sends the angels body away he sees a white hot head of a hammer disperse the smoke in front of him too late to move his arms down, Zandar's eyes glow in fury as he let his body losses up just as the hammer down on his chest. The intense heat burning at the seams of the black Gi sending dark steam out of his mouth as he body embeds itself into the stone ground before getting up like a puppet being flung around by a sad child, he decided to take the Demons hammer and pick it up with one hand and staring at it before one muscle twitches in his arm as the hammer slung back the way it came, the demon did not move but gritted his fangs and put both hands in front of him and had a second to say what he needed,
''Heat means nothing but joy!''
The hammer collides sending out a ring of white fire that made the ground sound like a jewel being shattered into a thousand pieces but the dwarf kept form, not feet starting to drag back leaving brimstone where he once stood before the king laughed,
''Oh this demon has some fire..Oh how I love fire in my concubines!!''
The demons gritting turned into a smile making the king angry but was not able to speak before Bee,
''Oh ya think? I put twenty Titans on your brother so I don't need to win.''
The king's anger turned to confusion before amusement,
''Jericho is down and out my little love demon...The first born will not turn up to save the day like in the fables aha-''
''What about the younger?''
Zandar turned with a fist made only to see nothing as he pulls his hand back away from the brilliant blue of the water before his vision went black with a squelching sound, he felt two fingers enter each of his eyes as we see Seirei now on the kings back with his fingers palm deep into his eyes before taking his thumbs and placing them inside his mouth on either side back to the jawbone that was still crunching from earlier, The king wreathed before speaking,
''YOU THINK YOU WILL NOT PERISH WITH ME?! AHAHA LITTLE BROTHER...I LIKE THE BOLDNESS YOU HAVE TAKEN...VERY WELL I WILL FIGHT TILL THE VERY EN-''
A fist pushed into his chest pushing him into the brilliant blue as Seirei corkscrews threw the air only to be caught by the foot, looking back in fear he sees his brothers face smiling, eye sockets now empty all but the pooling blood before he spoke again,
''DID I NOT SAY WILLABAAR?! YOU WILL JOIN ME AND WE WILL FIGHT FOR ETERNITY IN THE LOWEST PITS OF HELL!! COME BROTHER!! LET US BEGIN!'
Time seemed to crawl as the rest of the onlookers try to make their way to the water all with outstretched hands towards Seirei, Zandar now fully engulfed all but the arm that was dragging the prince into this fate with him, Kyu and Orelia found themselves at the front of the pack with time left to grab the prince as he smiled and whispered to them both,
''Thank you..Don't forget me.''
His outstretched hand closed into a fist before opening again along with his eyes, a single tear flew off into his friends before a gale of powerful winds sent them back into the rest of the crew only to be stopped by the two royals as they watch on, Seirei falling into the water now up to his neck but still with a smile on his face before another tear rolls of as the prince disappears. The crew waste no time as within the first second are running towards the spot ignoring the cries of the two behind them as after two seconds a blast that rivalled the sounds of the gods before war took the cave and sent a shockwave up through the broken palace making a beam stretch into the clouds and out into the stars before dissipating away. Drax saw this from the palace front gates and looked to have just seen death before dropping to his knees, gritting his fangs through the tears and forming wings before jumping into the sky,
''Please...Please no.''
Back in the chamber after the light had faded from existence the faces of the people all looked blank, mouths all open before the first sounds of tears came from Orelia now face on the floor and wailing loud with Kyu trying to comfort her with his hand her shoulder all the time looking into the water his teary eyes shining in it's light before Wilt and Bee both hit their knees as well before staring into the light, Baarias came over and embraced Orelia as they both cried into each others shoulders before Jericho went and picked up the two smaller people but not taking his eye of the water once, putting the other two down next to the women before rubbing his eye patch,
''Seirei...Like I could ever forget you.''
The prince turned and placed his hand on the fallen ones shoulder and hugged him with a smile making the angel begin to cry uncontrollably before the doors flung open with power and the dragon born man and the abomination of shadows came in and saw the face of Jericho shaking his head and confirming the worst, Drax did not know how to feel but he did look to Stitches who's shifting faces were the quietest they had ever been,
''Go...Collect Dracul...He must be here to say his words.''
The shadow moved back as the dragon born moved in only to be stopped, A chain drenched in the water with a multi spiked dagger plunged into the wall from the flowing blue, The room turned to where it left from only to see a shadow walking towards them making Jericho clasp his hands,
''Please Daedalus...Show their is a god.''
"Oh how amazing truly amazing"
Kyu said, his voice cracking between tears and laughter.
Well this will be hard for the pack...Not long after losing their elder figure of war now losing the acting alpha of the crew again in front of their eyes. If this was a pack of dogs that say they are not long for this world, surly to die a wretched death one that will normally starving to death before being pecked off by scavengers. And what of the kingdom their monarch seems to have gone a bit of the edge pardon the pun.