Spade and the others were in awe at the moment. The sight before their eyes was truly mind-blowing. Looking at the current fight from their view it was like two meteorites were in the sky dancing with their own colors about to clash. this was the Banes tail attack and Castles staff attack.
The fact that they both were now on the ground dashing forward at each other while their attacks propelled in the air and everything looked to be synced as all four collided at the same time.
"Brace yourselves." Spade shouts to everyone
Waves of gold,green,red and yellow energy shook the entire ground and sky as massive cracks appeared in the ground affecting the land for miles. colors filled the sky looking like northern lights as a loud whistling sound could be heard, following a mushroom cloud explosion.
Booooooooom!
"Take cover, Mastiff protect the disk for the gate port." spades yells
currently the tide had changed for the Mongrels battling on the far side of the area as more lower class Banes arrived. hundred gallons of mongrel blood was being spilled and the disk continued to suck it all up like some kind of vortex. the gate was almost complete as more mongrels bleed and lost their lives. it was hard to watch,only those who could stomach it were able to.
multiple shockwaves reverberated with each clash as the female Bane and Castle exchanged blows. A cracking sound was heard as the Bane connected a high kick to Castle ribs on his right side.
He responded with a short uppercut,left and right claw to her face sending her body twisting in the air to the side while letting out a roar showing his dominance. While in the air the Bane slung her arm straight as four of her claws shot out from her fingers like bullets with a green energy trailing behind them.
This caught Castle off guard as the nails pierced one of his arms and the right side of his chest. A painful growl was heard as Castle was pushed back a few feet upon impact. The Bane landed on her feet dashing ahead kneeing Castle in his face and performing a round house straight kick to his chest sending him flying and skidding across the ground.
"Come on Castle, I know you will not fall here." spade mumbles to himself as he begins watching the fight once more.
the aerial attack they performed earlier had left craters and cracks throughout the place. the once green grassy field had become a wasteland in minutes.
Castle managed to stop himself from being pushed back by digging his claws in the ground. once he stopped he dug into the holes that were made by the Banes claws and pulled them out one by one.
Grrrrrrrr! Castle stomped and flew back in to attack. The Banes sharp claws had regrown the instant she shot them at Castle the first time and she was now preparing another, but before she could Castle swiped his claws sending out eight red claw like lines of energy. as she braced herself to block the attack Castle disappeared and reappeared behind her creating a pincer, attacking her from both sides.
As she blocked the claw attacks in front of her, she felt a blistering pain shoot through her chest as she let out a scream that echoed throughout the area.
Castle hand had ripped through her chest like a needle stabbing through a piece of paper. with Castle big lion paws the hole created was so big, a football could be thrown through it.
Castle pulled his arm back with a confused look, as the Bane stumbled forward nearly falling to the ground.
She caught her balance and turned around to stare at castle with a slight smile on her face. the hole in her chest immediately started healing.
"looks like you missed my heart,tsk,tsk, tsk." she says.
Castles growls while looking up in disbelief. "maybe her heart is on the right side of her chest." he was currently thinking while slinging the blood and muscle tissue off of his claws.
"hmph that was a close one, but I've grown tired of this game of tag and being your punching bag."
"I didn't come here to fight, but instead to make an offer,however knowing your prideful self I also knew the chance of you accepting the offer was slim."
Unbeknownst to Castle his staff attack and her tail attack had almost cancelled each other out, Castles attack was the victor,but with his current thought process he decided against using his staff, since it seemed his claws were doing more damage than when he made contact with his staff. What was left of the Banes tail was currently falling from the sky.
"wait, I'll listen to your offer" he says seeing the Bane was about to move in for an attack.
She stopped her advancement with a suspicious look on her face while squinting her eyes.
"why the change of heart, wat are you planning Cas." She asked.
"because I want to know what they did to you Sara."
Castle was indeed planning something, but he needed a little time. he didn't want to make it too obvious especially after she asked him about planning something and so he returned to his human form to seem less threatening baiting her to let her guard down.
"Mother gifted me a new life,My name isn't Sara. My name is Dawn,which means the beginning."
"I am the first and only female of my kind besides Mother. After thousands of years Mother has finally produced another queen,someone who can take her place,someone who can bring forth the perfect generation." The Bane named Dawn says to Castle.
"For thousands of years,I don't understand, what do you mean you are the first." Castle was intrigued.
"All of my kind are Males besides Me and Mother, for thousands of years Mother has been searching for a species reproductive organs that could birth a special generation and a new queen."
"Mother has finally reached her goal coming to this planet. She has successfully created a new generation of.....Banes in which you call us and also achieved her number one goal, which turned out to be me." Dawn said with a smile.
"Unfortunately all the males including the new generation are sterile, unable to give me children to transform our kind further. Mother cannot reproduce in a normal way,but I can and all I need is you Castle."
"I want the very best,the top tier beast, The King of the Mongrels to give me children, to help me produce another and ultimate generation."
"Mongrel blood is powerful, our female organs will reject another species of reproduction semen unless that species has our blood." I will not settle for any Mongrel,but you."
Castle was currently burning with rage on the inside, he couldn't believe what he was hearing.
"How dare you, do you honestly think I would succumb to such blasphemy of our race." he said with a prideful roar behind his words.
"you don't seem to understand Castle, Mother always gets what she wants and so do I." Said Dawn.
"and what of your memories, I assume you remember your daughter Levy, your family and friends, your loved ones if you remember me so clearly." Castle responds thinking about the pendant on his neck, which has been recording everything.
Castle decided to calm himself after his last outburst of rage. he realized this was an opportunity to get as much information as possible from Dawn. he knew any information would be very important.
After mentioning the name Levy Dawn eyes drifted to a teen girl standing beside a humanoid wolf beast and spade in the distance. Her fists were balled up tight as ever as she stared back with anticipation.
She didn't know what was being said nore did she know the bane before her was someone she loved dearly.
"hmph, we will make more children,
thousands more. my kind reproduction and growth rate is incredibly fast, how do you think we managed to overrun this entire planet in only a span of fifty years, that one is not needed." in fact.... she says with a short pause.
Dawn's eyes made a very light flash,more like the slight glare a person's eyes would have from the sun. If it was anyone else they probably would have missed this little action, but not castle.
This entire time Dawn's tail was still in the air and had completely regenerated. it was frozen in one spot high above castle.
She had planned this attack seeing her tail falling from the sky. Dawn's plan was to engage in meaningless combat long enough for her to get her tail in position of castle's blind spot,however castle got the jump on her after shoving his hand through her chest,that had her rethinking her strategy. she was sure he wasn't using a hundred percent of his power and knew it would be foolish to use all of hers.
On the other hand Castle had already picked up on Dawn's little sneak attack and decided he would perform a counter sneak attack of his own,therefore led him to power down giving her the advantage, at least that's what he made it seem like, but something happened that he wasn't counting on.
"that one is not needed." in fact.... she says with a short pause...
shhhhhhhoooooooommmm!
the tail blasted off in the teen girl's direction.
Castle didn't move a muscle and instead looked at Dawn with sadness and disappointment. he considered catching her and trying to figure out a way to reverse what was done, but after learning and seeing she remembers everything about her old life including her only child who she was willing to kill without a second thought sickened him.
" I expected you to use that to attack me,but it seems our little conversation made you choose to harm another,hmph ! sorry to tell you but trying to harm Levy is even more dangerous than trying to harm me." Castle says with a smirk.
in the next moment Levy blinked out of existence and a sabertooth beast with large canines hanging out its top jaw could be seen with its gold fur and white slim but chiseled underbelly chest and body was standing where Levy once stood.
"spade, how could I forget someone just as strong as him." Dawn says to castle.
just then Dawn noticed a blue vibrating oval space a great distance behind spade with eighty or so beasts standing beside it.
" you're using the gate port,but that means...."
She then sees a flood of blood slithering low to the ground being pulled in by the device.
Spade eyes flashed white as a milky white portal opened and Dawn's tail went through. seven of the same portals opened nearby Dawn and seven
tails flew out with frightening speed.
"I know your tricks spade , only one of these are my real tail." Dawn says while stretching her arm out behind her stopping the tail with ease while the other six faded into thin air.
"so you're sacrificing lives to save lives." she says grabbing a hold of her tail.
"hmph, I think not."
Dawn telepathically informs a Bane on the east side. This bane was another new gen like her,but looked very different. it had the characteristics of a tarantula. it had six arms orange and black hair. four of it's arms hand hands with sharp nails, while two were a second pair of legs. it also walked upright. its face was all black with four pairs of eyes and had a pincer like mouth with fangs. the underbelly of the Bane was scaly and black with yellow tiger stripes.
currently the Bane was underground with its eyes closed and once he got the command. all eight blood shot red eyes opened as he stood up looking behind him in which an army of monsters were waiting on his orders.
"Let's move" the spider like bane says while pushing up a layer of dirt which opened like a trap door made out of dirt grass roots and webs.
currently the port gate was minutes away from being ready as the gate was fully visible.
The new gen bane and monsters appeared on the east side of of the port gate as if they came out of thin air.
Spade eyes widened with understanding and rage seeing this.
"Orcs, so that's why their kingdom remains, they've sided with the Banes." Spade says to Mastiff who was by his side.
"Spinless fools, orcs are." Mastiff responds.
it wasn't just orcs there were goblins,trolls and more lower banes by the hundreds.
"snare, kill them all."she tells the spider like bane.
"yes my future queen." snare says telepathically.
"you bitch, castle Shouts." while jumping in the air transforming back into his lion form.
seeing another army in the distance heading for the gate port castle attempts to perform a kings roar aiming down upon them to give his people more time,but was slapped back to the ground as Dawn jumped behind him.
He brushed off the kick that sent him back down landing on his feet while being meet with a barrage of mele attacks.
they both exchanged blows after blows while Dawn continued to try reasoning with him.
Castle knew spade, Mastiff,flash and Bison was strong enough to handle themselves, but was afraid for his daughter and the others.
"I will let them live if you come with me Cas." Dawn's says landing a powerful hit to castle's chest making him spit up a little blood.
Dawn's eyes had turned completely dark as the aura around her spiked and the yellow random patterns on her body lit up.
Castle felt something was wrong, he knew she hit him with a good punch,but not to the degree in which he would cough blood up.
"what is this, what have you done."
Dawn smiled as Castle said those words.
"took long enough, I was beginning to think you couldn't be slowed down."
Castles body was starting to become cold, he could feel his blood flow slowing down as he looked up in confusion.
"her claws, it must have something to do with them wounding me earlier, but I would have felt something was wrong sooner." he believed.
Castle falls on one knee digging his claws in the ground panting hard,as his breathing became unstable.
"oh, is this your sign to bend the knee like I asked before." she says jokingly walking up to him.
"like hell I will, he says pushing himself back up. A red and yellow glow could be seen on his chest, but suddenly fades as Dawn swung her Trident tail sending him crashing to the ground.
Castle continued to push himself up on his feet, finding it very difficult to stand.
"it's no use castle, my poison will continue to attack your blood cells until you're in a coma like state, so there is no escaping or fighting back."
"my poison isn't lethal I guess you can say it petrifies you like a spi....
Hahaha hmph haha !
Dawn was interrupted by a growling laugh as Castle eyes turned completely white and his fur shifted into a mixture of black and white, his muscles bulged and became thicker as green energy seeped out his mouth. this green energy was the poison dawn injected in him with her claws after they entered his body.
Hahaha grrrrr! castles continue to growl and laugh.
Dawn stepped back confused as she watched his once white mane become dark,thicker and longer.
"duality" castle grumbles while appearing in front of Dawn in a blink of an eye grabbing her by the head and slamming her into the ground.
boom! crack! crack! her shoulder and back bones were shattered upon impact.
"snare, help me" Dawn manages to say while being slammed to the ground. castle picks her up smashing her to the ground again and again and again shattering more and more bones as blue liquid spews from her mouth.
snare and the orcs were pushing upon the gate port when he got the command. snare broke off from the group commanding them to continue with the plan.
Spade, bison, flash and Mastiff we're currently pushing people inside the portal as it was completed. over a hundred Mongrels we're still alive who were meant to be sacrificed as they completely wiped out the lower banes they were battling the entire time. those remaining Mongrels rushed towards the gate port to help the others.
orcs, huge trolls and goblins pushed on them while doing so.
Mastiff who was a bear type humanoid beast swiped left and right with power as a single hit would leave goblins and lower banes on the ground in a pool of blood. flash was a cheetah beast, with his incredible bursts of speed he severed many of their heads before they knew what hit them. Bison stood almost eight feet tall and was a wolf humanoid as he dug his claws into any one who came close. other wolf like beasts joined in as they were a part of the group who had survived the sacrificial fight.
Spade stood by Princess levy's side encouraging her to enter the portal. she was in a partial transformation as her arms were covered in white fur as she too was trying to fight,but spade wouldn't allow it.
any creature that came within twenty feet of them vanished into thin air and the next was seen falling out the sky hitting the ground killing them instantly. spade was opening white milky portals left and right.
" Miss lady, we must leave now." he shouts trying to get her to move. their numbers will get worse as the ones in the back rotate forward, we will be overrun in no time." he added.
"but father, he's...
"miss lady he knows what he's doing we must go." spades shouts once more interrupting her.
Just then a black and white figure came crashing down out the sky landing in front of them releasing a loud roar.
lower banes,orcs and goblins limbs went flying everywhere as Castle attacked multiple enemies. castle released a dark energy wave pushing the entire wave of beasts back. they tumbled and fell over each other as the pressure of the wave crashed into them.
he then snatched off the pendant and in seconds appeared back in front of spade and Levy. "take this and leave this planet, I'll hold them off.
Levy was at a loss for words, the form her dad was in she had never seen. it was a dark energy oozing out of him and she barely recognized him as she stood there frozen in place.
"Levy, levy, levyyyyyyyy! castle Shouts snapping her out of her daze.
"fa,father no come with us."
Spade, take her now castle growled fiercely.
blink!
Levy was gone in an instant and in front of the gate port. Bison grabbed on to her and entered while flash and Mastiff followed.
the wave of dark energy castle released that pushed the wave of enemies back had given bison,Mastiff and flash time to regroup and retreat as they were among the last ones to enter the gate port.
Snare arrived in front of Dawn who was in a twenty feet deep crater. her mangled and broken body looked to be lifeless.
"my future queen, I'm here sorry for my delay he said while jumping into the Crater. he sensed she was still alive but barely. placing his hand on her body thick spider webs wrapped around her like a cocoon. she was regenerating very slowly, too slowly for her to be of any help anytime soon.
During her and castles fight, after using a transformation called duality which turned him into his current form. Castle completely wiped the floor with Dawn in seconds and just as he was about to finish her off he noticed his people,but most of all his daughter Levy was about to be slaughtered by an overwhelming wave of enemies and so with one jump he had covered the distance of hundreds of meters landing in front of the wave.
"spade, you must go." castle speaks seeing the wave of monsters charging forward again.
" brot,brother." spade says walking up to castle. they embraced eachother with a tight hug while giving eachother a deep growl with a head nod.
spade blinked away and now was in front of the gate port.
"spade, if my daughter inherits duality some day, you know what must be done."
Spade nodded and stepped backwards into the gate port.
Castle then walks up to the port making a cut on his arm dropping his blood on the stone lit disk. "blood of my people to open,blood of the king to close." castle mumbles to himself. the disk stopped and began turning in the opposite direction as the portal flickered.
(Link...Below for castles features)
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