ghosts of history

part 20

Zia and rath are traveling on a road. they stop for the night and set up camp.
"hey rath what are you planning to do after all this?"
" I never really thought about it. what about you?"
Zia sat in silence for a second.
"I'm not really sure. I've lost almost everyone now. I dont know where to go." she says with a sob
"well I'll always be here for you" says rath
Zia hugs him. "thanks rath"
Latios is just sitting silently and awkwardly on a stump.
they wake up the next morning and travel through many towns fighting off pillagers and recruiting troops for the attack until they final come to their camp on a cliff with ships at their recently made doc below. "let's go". they attack, the sounds of battle shake the earth. rath is near the cliff when he is knocked off by a pillager Zia strikes down the one who knocked him off and jumps. her marking are growing bright and suddenly her wings grow even larger and her horns disappear replaced by glowing blue hair. she grabs rath and they land safely on the largest ship that is full of food and other supplies. a ravager charges them but rath catches its charge. he then slides underneath and cuts open its underside with his jagged blade and it falls dead. a swarm of evokers fly at Zia but she knocks them all out of the sky with her now mighty wings and thrust herself forward stabing the one who summoned them. they both head for the chief. the chief jumps from his balcony where he had been watching and shoots at them both hitting rath in the arm but missing Zia. he charges toward Zia with his hatchets throwing one that she tries to block with her new wings finding out they are not as tough as she thought. she strikes at him and he blocks and kicks her but she trips him with her other wing. putting her blade at his throat. "please" he begs. "we have been forced to pillage like this for generations. we dont like it but it must be done"
"but why" presses Zia
"crops have stopped growing at home, we gather food from others to bring it home" he points to all the food on the ship. Zia then looks saddened.
"perhaps we can come up with a trade agreement of some kind then. you could have talked instead of attacking" she helps him up.

we are now in the nether with brimstone and the Enderknights liberating the nether. brimstone runs to the throne room to fing the huge piglin chief prog there with his mighty axe.
"ah you must be the nether king. I wonder if you will put up more of a fight then your father"
brimstone looks angry and so does smelty (his magma cube) at this. smelty jumps at the piglin but is swatted away off the edge and through a nearby portal below. brimstone simply stands silently in defiance. the mighty beast charges and chops down on the blind netheran but the netheran dodges cuts the handle of his axe and kicks him in the head knocking him to the ground.
"why did you attack us" brimstone says angrily
"you attacked first. stealing all our gold"
"what, no we didn't"
"well then who did huh" says the now defeated and confused chief

we are with alleous and ember now. they teleport to the first song shrine at the walls of time. he puts them in and listens. the songs can be heard and the energy flows into the young ardoni and he collapses. he wakes up and it is now night. " a messenger bird flew in. the pillagers and piglins are defeated. our job is all that remains. so let's go"
alleous nods and they teleport off appearing at the walls of time.
" I was wondering when you would show. I've been reading these walls. literally the writing on the walls. I've seen what I've been saying come to fruition. the ardoni have been cast aside nearing extinction. yet you still hold on instead of learning from it. time is like a cycle, one I wish would stop. and you wont stand in my way of stopping it."
They begin fighting. their strikes echo through the walls under the eire blue glow. The battle lasts for what feels like ages. Una having more experience and energy than the two younger and more tired heros.
"we can't carry this on" says ember she slashes and says "ban" pointing the blade at Una. she vanishes droping everything she had.
Alleous turns to ember and charges in a fury of rage.
"what are you doing" ember cries in a tired breath.
She killed my family and all I've know. you had no right to do that"
he strikes her down. his eyes grow wide with horror he looks down at the blazing flames coming from the blade of ingresses. he trembles and falls to his knees. what have I done he thinks.
Arias speaking
" after this the pillagers began trade with ardonia and the piglins found their gold. peace was now everywhere but in the heart of young Alleous who sailed away with the primes for reasons unknown. will the primes ever return we may never know"
"this is so boring" says a little boy behind him playing with a little axolotl
"well, we must learn from our past or it is destined to repeat" says bonnie
"personally I think its cool" says a teenage girl standing to the side
"thank you" says Arias
camera zooms out to show a strange figure in a blue shirt, blonde hair, and grey pants, with a glowing green blade on his back. he turns around with a smile and fades into nothing.
The End.

camera is dark then a flash of orange. it's the control center of the droug