As Courtney stands there, facing off against her father, she takes one more deep breath, as the general only smirks and chuckles arrogantly as they both wait for the battle to begin.
Soon, Courtney decides to start, by using something she hasn't used in a long, long time... As she used Aura Release, she glared at her father, as a powerful wave of energy quickly came to him, the general manages to notice this quickly though, countering back with his own Aura Release, causing a power Aura Clash, creating an extremely powerful shockwave that spread throughout the bridge and a huge radius around them. All remaining windows in the city get shattered as the shockwave passes, any remaining unstable building immediately crumbles into rubble. The river below them is also affected, as huge waves are generated just from the powerful shock waves generated by their Aura Clash, and the trees in the forest around them are blown away, as if a hurricane just passed by them.
the Aura Clash, as he's now holding on for his dear life on a post on the bridge, as he watches the epic face off between father and daughter.
Courtney then begins her attack, still keeping her eyes on her father as their auras continue to clash, "Emburst!", she yells as she blasts the general with fireballs, while the general easily blocks them with only his bare palms,
"Is that all you can do?", the general mocks her arrogantly, as he starts to take steps towards her, blocking every fireball she tries to fire at him.
Courtney starts taking steps back as she continues to hold off the general by continuously blasting him with fireballs. After a bit, she realizes she's still getting cornered back towards the edge of the collapsed bridge, as she then takes a quick and sudden turn, jumping to the side as she then prepares another attack. She holds out her hand towards the sky, as she begins to absorb solar energy once again, "Solar Beam!", she yells as she then points her other hand towards the general, blasting him with a powerful laser beam. The general tries to defend himself as he quickly reforms one of his arms into a huge lava shield, as it starts to absorb the energy generated by the laser beam before slowly hardening. Courtney quickly cuts off her attack, as she pulled out her blazing wings once again, as she then charged at the general as he continues blocking with his shield, unable to react to her speed, as she breaks the sound barrier and quickly lands a powerful kick, breaking the hardened shield, as she follows with another kick to his face. The general gets pushed a few steps back as he quickly balances himself back, he then redirects the absorbed energy from the shield to his fist, as he quickly transforms his fist into a blob of lava. Courtney quickly tries to follow up her combo with a powerful fireball once again, as she shouts, "Emburs-", but she gets cut off as she narrowly dodges a fast lava projectile, launched by the general. The general then yells as he smashes his fists into the ground, transforming the entire remainder of the bridge into lava, as Courtney quickly flies up into the air to avoid it. She then watches as the bridge of lava collapses into the river, releasing a heavy amount of steam as the lava cools. She then turns back to the general, as he quickly transforms into his complete lava form once again, as he then launches another lava projectile, but quickly fuses himself to it, making the illusion of flight as he makes his way to The Solar Phoenix. Courtney quickly dodges once again as the general passes by her, but then the general reforms back into his normal self, as he quickly prepares another lava attack with his fists, launching it at her, but once again fails as Courtney dodges it. Courtney then flies towards the general midair, as he transforms back into his lava state, but Courtney quickly uses Aura Release with a 50% output as she focuses it all directly at the general, stunning him a bit as his transformation deactivates. As soon as this happened, Courtney quickly dashes once again, making a sonic boom as she transforms her legs into flaming phoenix talons, drop kicking the general straight into the foggy river below, as it still seems to continue to steam due to the bridge of lava earlier, as he coughs blood for the first time in a long time.
The general crashes onto the water below, which is also a lot shallower thanks to the cooled lava from the bridge earlier. He quickly gets up as he starts to roar out loud, throwing a tantrum and crashing out once again as he starts stomping around and smashing his fists into the floor like a child as water splashes everywhere. Courtney hovers up above, enjoying the sight of her father getting angry at the feeling of losing,
"Heh, talk about a sore loser", Courtney mocks the general as she chuckles, enraging the general even more,
"SHUT UP!", the general shouts as he quickly charges up a huge lava projectile, before launching it at full power towards Courtney. Courtney panics a bit in shock at the sight of a humongous meteor of lava being flung towards her, but she quickly manages to fly away and dodge it before she could get hit. She then flies around the meteor towards her father, as she charges up one final attack, using up all of her remaining firepower, "Eternal Flamethrower!!", she yells as she blasts the general with a huge beam of flames at the general. The general managed to react quickly as he managed to make another lava shield and block against the powerful fire attack. Courtney blasts the general continuously nonstop with all her energy, as she realizes she's about to go unconscious. She then looks back up at the bridge, where she last saw Gavin, to see nothing there, as her vision slowly started getting blurry, and her head starting to get dizzy, when suddenly...
"Courtney! Don't give up!", Gavin's voice shouts as Courtney manages to wake up, she looks around and sees Gavin in the forest near the river, watching them behind a tree,
"You can't lose! Courtney!", Gavin shouts at Courtney, continuing his endless support for her as he looks at her with hopeful eyes.
"Jeez... That kid again, who the hell even is that!?", the general says with frustration as he continues defending against Courtney's Eternal Flamethrower.
Thanks to that last bit of motivation, Courtney took a deep breath as she focused, as she then decided to go above and beyond, going far beyond her limits as she went all-out with her attack. She yelled and roared and screamed and cried with all her might as she released all of her remaining energy into her attack, her eyes blazing with determination as she remembered, she can't lose, she never has, and if she does... She'll lose Gavin.
She focused all of her power into her Eternal Flamethrower, focusing and compressing the blast to a smaller size as the attack's power got stronger at the pressurized point, shifting from its wide, red, blast of flames, slowly into a blue beam of light.
"This... this is for ruining my life!", she shouted as she continued to put her life and soul into the attack. The lava general staggered back as the force continues to push him back, as the shield started to crack and break,
"This is for hurting and killing all those people!", she exclaimed as the general continues to get even more angry and angry, trying his best to keep on fighting,
"Grr... No, no, NO, NO!", the general exclaimed with anger and frustration as he continuously tried to keep fighting back, constantly regenerating and fixing his lava shield as he tried to move forward, but failing continuously as well as he kept getting pushed back, every layer of his shield shattering and breaking apart each second.
"And this... This, Is, For MOTHER!", Courtney shouted with tears in her eyes, as she let out all of her pent up emotion, hatred, pain, and everything horrible throughout her life into one, final, push... Until finally...
SHOOOOOT!
The laser finally breaks the shield completely, breaking his guard as well, as the laser shoots straight into him, through his chest, through his torso, through his heart. Courtney still continues to shoot her laser with all her might, screaming and roaring at the general, as he only glares at her. He stands there, giving up on fighting back as his heart is continuously pierced with the laser attack, as he only continues to give her a look of mockery, a grin of arrogance as Courtney looks at him with hatred.
Eventually, Courtney finally runs out of energy, as her phoenix form deactivates. She falls to the shallow river, panting heavily in exhaustion, as she looks up at the general, still standing there, as he only laughs, coughing blood as he does.
"W-well done… pants You... pants Y-you...", the general says with a strained voice, as he continues laughing, applauding her as well as standing there like nothing happened.
Courtney turns to the forest where Gavin stood, as she sees him smiling proudly at her, nodding at her with the look saying, "Great Job...".
Courtney smiles happily, feeling a sense of satisfaction and pride as she lays there in the water. She then turns back to the general, to see him suddenly pull out a radio phone from his belt, turning it on as he seems to call someone on the other side,
"...R...R... Reinforcements...come in...over", the general suddenly says with a grin, as he turns off the radio phone and drops it, as he continues to laugh and cackle arrogantly.
"W-what did you do?", Courtney asks him angrily as she lays there, unable to get up as she's still exhausted. As the general continues applauding her while laughing,
"BWAHAHAHAHA, you... you FOOL!", he mocks her with an arrogant look, as he quickly transforms into his lava state, regenerating every injury he had on his body, as Courtney watches in horror,
"Did you really think I'd lose that easily!? That all felt like a warm-up!", he exclaimed, as the sounds of helicopters can be heard up above in the steamy, foggy atmosphere of the river,
"You spent all that effort, used up all of your energy into one strong ass attack to deal a "fatal blow" to me, just for all that effort to crumble to dust... That battle barely lasted 10 minutes! Don't forget you bitch, I'm the LAVA FUCKING GENERAL, and I'm fucking invincible!", he said arrogantly as he continued to stand in place, "And don't ever, underestimate me again...", he says with a sly, arrogant look, as he continues laughing and cackling, when ropes suddenly start drop from the sky from all directions, seeming to come from the helicopters above.
Suddenly, special forces looking soldiers start dropping down from the ropes as well, all holding their guns out as they all go towards Courtney and start pointing at her. The general then takes his heavy, prideful steps towards Courtney as he chuckles,
"You're under arrest, Courtney Magni, for 2 counts of mass genocide, and over 300 counts of robbery and theft", the general says with an arrogant, proud look as he surrounds Courtney, along with all the soldiers, as she can only do nothing but lay there and look around her in hopelessness and despair, as there is nothing she can do... The soldiers then tase her multiple times, leading to her falling unconscious, as they take her unconscious body to the helicopters above as they finally succeed in capturing her.
Meanwhile, Gavin is still in the forest behind them this whole time, as he watches in horror as the entire moment unfolds. He falls back in shock, unable to believe what is happening, as he feels his breathing and heartbeats getting faster and heavier. His vision gets blurry as he also starts to tear up,
"N-no... Th-this can't be...", he says to himself in a low tone as he takes one more look at the scene, as he watches them take Courtney away by the helicopters.
The lava general then follows close by as the last few of the special forces and reinforcement pack up and leave, the general looks back one more time around him, at the forest, at the rivers and everywhere he can in case anyone is there, but ends up seeing no one, as he then climbs up the ropes as well, marking the leave of the military. Gavin turns out to be hiding behind a tree once again, barely avoiding the sight of the lava general who stupidly didn't use his Aura Release to find him, as Gavin runs away, sobbing and crying hopelessly in pain and loss.
After that, the military invasion ended, marking the end of the day, and the end of The Great Destruction of Fallis. 95% of Fallis City and its citizens were lost that day, along with the nearby surrounding forests, most of its river and its bridge. With its previous population count of 80,000 and the added amount of around 10,000 soldiers that came with the military invasion, it all adds up to over 85,000 innocent deaths, men, women, and children, with the remaining 4,000 either severely injured or somehow managing to stay absolutely unharmed. What started out as a normal day for everyone, ended with a city-wide funeral.