*War*
"Awake yourself Boy!" Commanded a voice so wrathful it bypassed sin…
"Die here, and your soul will be fractured." Tall he was, with hair born out of flames.
Before I could gather my bearings, he liquified his body, consuming me whole and retreating us to safety. My next memory was being ejected from the front of his body, 'Partial water mimicry' he called it. My ears could still hear the slaughter raging on outside, whilst my eyes opened and adjusted to a dimly lit temple.
"You're not breathing enough." He said stoically.
"Wdym I'm not breathing enough? No- No I shouldn't even be here." I repelled.
Picking his fury back up, he walked over, grabbing me by the collar, and in bloodlust I grabbed his arm, crushing the marrow. Silence left my mouth as I awaited his next move, staring into his soul with tears of wrath running down my face. He relaxed his grip as well as his mind, as the glowing crystal around his neck dimmed.
"Look boy, to turn back now would be for nothing. Plus who knows what they'll do if we return empty handed. Not to me, but to you."
"I'll run, never show my face in New Nubia again. You're from Savharia right? I'll just go there, no-Refugia! they'll never find me there." I foolishly expressed.
"Foolish child. Regardless, I will not have you abandon me under my own supervision." After some back and forth, I eventually gathered the balls to return back to the battlefield. This time I was ready… It was all a game of logic.
Blood rained upon my hands as an enemy soldier was shredded above me, and from the way his comrade was charging this way, I was next.
*Clash* made the sound of Gre'ce's weapon stopping the enemies blow, followed by an ally solder appearing from nowhere, slicing the foe into four, spurting insect blood across my face.
"Come." Gre'ce commanded, darting forwards like an assassin. Wiping my eyes I tried to follow, but out of nowhere spawned a giant amidst the locust swarm, slamming its foot down creating a shockwave. I wasn't the best at taking down regular sized folk, but enemies like this were perfect. My passive 'Juggernaut' activated immediately, as I leaped through its toes to an unknown number of feet in the air, cocking my arm back before delivering a devastating blow its exoskeleton, causing it to stumble back, crushing the already deceased bodies below. Juggernaut was an extreme flight response in the face of large enemies, heightening my awareness, reflexes, and field of view in a sort of controlled anxiety. But again this was a game of logic, so I flipped my perspective, using it as a fight response. Before I could reach the ground, an enemy soldier swooped in, grabbing me mid air, deafening me with the buzz and beating of its wings. I locked eyes with another some distance away, and taking advantage of my entrapment, it charging hastily towards me with its proboscis pointed directly at my heart. All was going fast, but out of the stratosphere, an ally soldier dropped down rapidly, planting his weapon into the one a hold of me, gaining me split second of freedom, before the charging soldier pierced straight through my torso. Regenerating rapidly, I trapped it within my body, refusing to let it escape as we fought it out to the ground like birds dropping out of the sky. I ignored the impact and got straight to work, harnessing enough strength to snap its snout off completely, pulling it out from my chest and impaling its face, planting its head into the ground like bamboo torture. Amid the chaos I could see Gre'ce, extending up into the air, weaving through every attack, landing the barrel of his weapon mere inches from the enemy King's face, only to be stopped by the armour of an ironclad beetle, throwing its life away as a human shield. Not paying attention to my own situation, I saw Gre'ce vanish, before hearing a tsunami spawn behind me, forming a barrier between me and an enemy soldier I had no idea was nanoseconds away from taking my head. The water quickly expanded around me forming a dome-like structure, muffling the sound of the outside chaos, and I looked up to see him again.
"We lost the target because I had to save you, but never mind that, the war is over."
"The war is over?" I said, failing to hide the hope that suddenly filled me.
He adjusted the properties of the barrier allowing sound, and narrowed in on the enemies voice. His aura control was something else, and I awed for a second.
one, then two, then I watched as thousands of insectoid warriors dropped from the sky, rag dolling along the floor upon collision, as if their mind's had shut off mid flight. I jumped in surprise as a butterfly bounced off of the dome's roof, before uttering
"Whats happening. Why are they all dying like that?"
He acknowledged but ignored my question, allowing me to figure out the answer myself via audio, as I locked into the enemy King's voice, projected through the barrier.
"GRANDFATHER!" He Called. Like us, he housed an impossible ârtefact around his neck, with us being sent a millennia back to retrieve.
"OOH Grandfather— do you see how far your offspring has come? Aid me as your successor, as I bring this city(Baghdad) to REVELATION." He was a notorious ruler, commanding of men so incalculable, that it appeared as a locust swarm.
"This ba'ttle Will mark history with the blood of your last name, so if you hear me, please, let us feast upon this land in unison… Awok'en!" His name was Hulegu, and he had just pulled the soul of his grandfather from his ancestral realm, Genghis Khan, or He who killed the world.
Lightning bolts— thousands of them dropped from the sky at once, carrying the souls of all who had fallen during the battle, reanimating the souless vessel into something more. Using water mimicry, Gre'ce grabbed me once more, and in a blink we were gone. portals tore holes through atmosphere, pulling the veil behind the mortal world and some other place. 4 riders rode out, each followed by a wave of destruction, and swarms of creatures straight out of a fantasy novel... Was this the end of the world?