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Chapter 75 - The Last Stand: Survival

 

Aster was the first to move, Slamming his hammer into the ground, massive pillars of white stone erupted forward snaking their way towards Ea and Aluric. Ea weaved through the pillars a smile across his face, it had been a while since he enjoyed the thrill of battle, while aluric jumped onto one of them running along it,

"was this supposed to hit us, even a child with your blessing could do better", Ea shouted out dodging even more Pillars,

"don't fall for it it's a trap", Aluric shouted to Ea, but it was too late, Polaris appeared from under one of the pillars with a rush of water, pushing Ea upwards to the ceiling, Barak raced upwards on the very same pillars towards the airborne Ea, lightning surging forth from his sword, his aim directed towards the new kings neck, Only to be pushed away by a stream of flames coming from Aluric,

"he's mine", levant shouted out, running along another pillar his sights set on Aluric, he fired off multiple shots at Aluric, with one piercing him in his shoulder. The searing hot pain sent a shock of surprise through Aluric's body, which quickly turned itself into anger, he turned his attention towards Levant, the lightning began to surge withing Aluric's body engulfing him, Aluric appeared over Levant, a torrent of flames, falling down onto him.

Levant dropped both guns out of his hands, pushing his palms into the fire as it descended onto him, trying to pull and absorb the fire into his body, slowly it began to seep into his skin increasing as the seconds passed, just like before his body began to steam, turning red from the inside out, Levant bit down, the blood running from his lips evaporated from his body's own heat, Cracks opened up all over his body releasing the steam as though they were volcanic fissures, as the downpour of fire came to an end.

"you really thought you could kill me with fire", Levant said, Aluric landed on the same pillar, only to be met with Levant, steam pouring from his body, his veins brigt orange as though they were on fire, rushing in to him, Levant launched himself into the air reeling back his hand,

"LUNAR NOVA: ERUPT", Levant shouted, Blue flames sparked from his hands, Aluric pushed himself off of the pillar moments before Levants attack rushed down onto where he laid mere seconds ago, melting that entire part of the pillar.

Soaking wet from Polaris' attack and free falling in the air, Ea gripped his sword blindly throwing it towards one of the white blurs in his eyesight, the sword sang through the air sticking itself into one of the pillars Aster had made. Ea stretched out his hand, the sword straightened up pulling slightly against the pillar it was stuck in, drawing himself in to the stuck sword, this only being possible due to the bond between him and his sword. With a great amount of force Ea's body flung itself next to the sword, which he grabbed, lest he be flung straight off the pillar, he knelt on the pillar coughing up some of the water in his mouth, however he wasn't allowed the slightest bit of reprieve, three bolts of lightning bore down on him like vicious whips, crumbling the pillar he was on, Ea tumbled onto the throne room floor using his momentum he rolled and flipped onto his feet.

He stood up taking off his coat, "you all might be a bit more troublesome than I imagined", Ea said, picking up his sword again, "BIND", he said, the Omega symbol on his sword began to glow and ominous red, "anything thrown by my hands, by my will I shall be allowed to switch places with, I hear by form this contract within the bounds of the throne room", Ea said, he plucked a knife from his wristband throwing it in to the air, Ea disappeared from the floor, Amon looked around finally looking upwards to see Ea in the air,

He let loose his sword as it raced towards Amon, Ea once again switched places and Appeared in front of Amon, his arm stretched out as the sword raced back to him, bringing It down towards Amon, who blocked the incoming strike with his own sword,

A low rumbling echoed throughout the throne room, As massive white spikes erupted out of the floor making their way towards Ea, who pushed himself off of Amon to avoid the incoming attack,

"shit, I thought that would catch him", Aster said, picking up his hammer to charge in at the new king,

"KING'S SHIELD: JUDIAH", Aluric shouted, a Flaming cross appeared in front Aster swung his hammer at Ea, causing his attack to rebound, knocking him back several feet.

"now this asshole is creating his moves with Lev's blessing", Aster said, holding onto his shoulder, 'that attack even managed to burn me', aster thought, looking at the deformed piece of flesh on his shoulder.

"CETUN'S CASCADE", Polaris said, water bubbled and gushed from his hand, rushing to where Ea stood,

"Throw me a Dagger Ea", Aluric said, standing atop one of the pillars, Without hesitation, Ea flung a knife towards Aluric, who caught it, Ea appeared next to Aluric a moment later, as the water pushed everything out it's way.

"these four are becoming a lot more difficult", Ea said, looking over at his friend,

"it seems they are adapting to us as the battle progresses, let's stick together, get rid of them one at a time", Aluric said, looking down at the five who regrouped on the throne room floor,

 "ALURIIIICCCC", Amon shouted out from the floor of the throne room, "you sorry excuse for a brother, our parents would hold their heads down in shame at what you've become", he said.

Aluric looked down to his older brother his eyes burning with fury, "last I checked they were both dead, and dead people don't feel shame, in fact they don't feel anything", Aluric responded,

"You're also a lousy excuse of a son then", Amon shouted, "then what about yumi, by the time we're done with the two of you, you'll be dead, maybe I'll help set her up with one of the men under me, it'll help her get over your death a lot faster", Amon continued,

The fury within Aluric's eyes intensified, his hand tightened into a fist, as his body leaned forward slightly,

"don't do it Alu…..ric", Ea began to say, however Aluric had already dove off of the pillar towards Amon. Aluric's hand reeled back becoming covered with the golden stripes of the armor he absorbed, with a loud crash, Aluric and Amon clashed with each other, Aluric's momentum forcing Amon onto one knee as he received the impassioned blow from his younger brother. With his attacked blocked by his brother's sword, Aluric flipped his body through the air onto the other side of Amon, delivering a kick into his ribcage and sending him careening into one of the pillars,

Amon struggled back onto his legs holding his side, only to witness Aluric's hand bright red, followed by a rush of fire barreling it's way towards him,

"GIVE:WATER ATTRIBUTE", Amon shouted, engulfing his hand and sword in a body of water. Tensing his legs, Amon pushed forward towards the fire, shifting to the side and using his water engulfed sword to cut through the fire.

As the battle between the brother's raged on, on the throne room floor, up on the pillars Ea jumped into the air avoiding a slash from Barak's sword, Above him appeared Polaris bearing down his sword on him, Ea swung his sword pushing Polaris' sword to the side as he lands on his back on the pillar. However the boys hadn't planned on letting him, as a bolt of lightning raced towards him yet again, rolling out of the way an d back on to his feet Ea rushed towards Barak, who did the same rushing in towards Ea, as the two clashed swords, Barak felt the shift in Ea's weight, catching him by surprise as the force he put behind the strike caused him to stumble past Ea, who was quickly engaged again by Polaris who launched small sharp icicles at him, one managing to graze his cheek,

Loud rapid explosions filled the air, with levant joining the fray, in quick succession Ea parried all of the shots fired by levant, throwing a knife towards Levant, levant twisted his body barely avoiding having his eye run through, as he landed his foot slipped on the slopped edge of the pillar as he fell on to the pillar below him,

Levant's distraction costing him dearly, with a biting cold feeling piercing through his shoulder, in that short space of time, Polaris had stabbed him with his sword, causing Ea too jump back, as he landed, he held his head up in pain, as a painful shock ran through his spine ,looking over his shoulder , he spotted Barak. Ea knelt on the ground, looking at the brace on his arm he only had one knife left and he was surrounded and couldn't hold his own anymore,

With that in mind, Ea threw his last knife towards Aluric, As Polaris sent another ice shard at him, it collided with one of Ea's knives, As Ea himself appeared at Aluric's back.

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