The Adventures of a Sword

Chapter 29

The final battle had begun. It was the most disturbing and goriest battle that Jordan had ever been involved in. Colonel Biorge ran towards Jordan, and he tried to slash Jordan with a knife. The knife stabbed Jordan's hand, but Jordan directed the blade to Colonel Biorge. He then ran up to a wall, slamming Biorge into the wall and shoving the knife into Colonel Biorge's jaws. Colonel Biorge limped and fell over.
    Jordan pulled the knife out of his hand, and he was preparing to slash an enemy soldier standing in front of him. However, the soldier turned around, and it was Balthazar.
    "I can't kill you," said Jordan. "I really--"
    "Jordan," Carl said as he ran up to Jordan, panting. "What did this maniac tell you the other day?"
    "Carl," said Jordan. "Balthazar is my father."
    Carl widened his eyes, and he ran off screaming.
    "Dad," Jordan said. "Can you join us? Can you join us and defeat Emperor Ginold? You've been serving him for so many centuries, so you know what his strengths and weaknesses are."
    "Your mother betrayed me," said Balthazar. "She told me to kill myself over a small misunderstanding. I had no choice but to run away and become Emperor Ginold's henchman."
    "Ginold killed Gary and Arnie," Jordan said. "I want you to help me kill him for his crimes."
    "Talkin' to my henchman, huh?" Emperor Ginold said. He was about to stab Jordan when Balthazar held up a gun.
    "Leave him alone," he said to Emperor Ginold. "Leave my son alone."
    "So you finally decided to betray me," said Emperor Ginold. "Excellent."
    Emperor Ginold held out his hands, and a bunch of light that seemed to be energy started draining out of Balthazar.
    "I'M DRAINING YOUR POWERS, BALTHAZAR!!" Emperor Ginold cackled. "YOU'RE POWERLESS NOW!!"
    Emperor Ginold shot Balthazar in the chest with an arrow, and Balthazar was blasted back and thrown into the water.
    "NO!!" Jordan screamed. Emperor Ginold leaped away to fight some more soldiers.
    Suddenly, Adrianna de la Santos appeared.
    "Miss me?" she sneered.
    "It's you," said Jordan.
    "Oh, yes it is," said Adrianna. "I put those pods over you, and I forced you to kill people. Afterwards, I tried to make you kill yourself, but you're way too strong. I did this with eighty other people, and I succeeded with all of them. NOW WATCH!"
    Adrianna held out her hands, and she electrocuted Carl to death.
    "Carl! No!" Olivia cried.
    She ran up to Carl.
    "Olivia! Back away from there!" Jordan yelled. "She'll kill you too!"
    "I don't care," said Olivia. "At least that way, I get to be with Carl."
    "Oh, no, don't you dare, Olivia," said Jordan. "Don't you dare."
    "Jordan, you will lead your army to take down and kill Emperor Ginold," said Olivia. "Your name will become a legend."
    "Olivia! Please! No!" Jordan yelled.
    Adrianna cackled as she drained the power of the de-aging seeds out of Olivia. Because of that, Olivia was converted into her true age: around a thousand years old. She immediately collapsed and died.
    "You--" Jordan growled at Adrianna.
    "How did you like that, Jordan? Did you have fun watching that?" Adrianna cackled.
    Jordan immediately created a rope with the sword, and he used it to hang Adrianna on a tree. Afterwards, he created an indestructible shed.
    "You do realize that I'm a ghost, right?" Adrianna sneered. "I can't die."
    "I know," said Jordan.
    "Oh, no, you don't," Adrianna said. "NO!!"
    Jordan immediately threw the shed over the tree and locked it, leaving Adrianna trapped in there for eternity.
    "A fate worse than death," Jordan muttered. He walked over to Olivia's body, and he took the tenth leaf out of her pocket. He put the leaves on the ground, and a detonator was formed.
    "You can't defeat me!" Emperor Ginold said as he snatched the detonator from the ground and reprogrammed it.
    "What did you do?!" Jordan yelled.
    "I reprogrammed this detonator," Emperor Ginold said, "so when this is activated, I become more powerful, while all of your men die."
    "You wouldn't," said Jordan.
"Oh, yes, I would," said Emperor Ginold.
Jordan chased Ginold into a building.
"Now, Jordan," said Emperor Ginold, "how about we make a deal? You give me the sword, and I give you this."
Emperor Ginold held out three-thousand pounds of treasure.
"You're a liar and a tyrant," Jordan said. "Gary, Arnie, Carl, and Olivia are all dead because of you. You think I'll accept that trash?"
"Oh, yes, I do," said Emperor Ginold. "I do. Now, hand me the sword, and you will be free with this treasure for the rest of your life. Come on. It's not hard."
Jordan resisted. He tried not to give in. Finally, he made up his mind.
"Fine, Emperor Ginold," Jordan said. "Fine."
Although Jordan could hear Gary, Arnie, Olivia, and Carl's voices in his head telling him not to, he couldn't resist three-thousand pounds of treasure, so he handed the sword to Emperor Ginold.
Suddenly, the treasure disappeared.
"Haha!" Emperor Ginold cackled. "Tricked ya!"
Jordan started running.
"Cyborg Gary!" Emperor Ginold yelled. "Kill them! Kill them all!"
Cyborg Gary grabbed the detonator, and he activated it. Jordan watched all of his men die.
"Oh, come on," Corporal Pannots said as his head exploded.
Everyone on Jordan's side was dead. Jordan was the only one left. He found himself confronted by at least nine-million enemy soldiers. One of the enemies shot him in the stomach. Jordan grunted in pain, but he was able to resist it.
"Kornol the Great," Jordan said. "We have failed you. We have come to terms to accept that the prophecy was false. It was an illusion. The following words are for my successor. In the future, a true hero will confront, fight, defeat, and kill Emperor Ginold once and for all. The hero shall not follow my footsteps. What I did was and will always be wrong. It led to my defeat. So the hero shall be a true leader. He will properly lead his army, and as of today, I'm leaving. I shall go."
"Hold!" Emperor Ginold yelled.
The enemy soldiers held out their machetes.
"Throw!"
The enemy soldiers hurled all of their machetes at Jordan. The machetes hit Jordan one by one, and by the time the machetes all landed on the ground, Jordan was pinned down, and he was lifeless.