The Great War

Ardonia's Darkest Hour

Ingressus was outraged, his only hope of winning the war against his rivals, was gone. The Nether had seemed so kind and took such a liking to his attire, but they used him from the start... no, he knew fighting with them would be no good. He had one plan left. He ascended the mountain.

As Varek got up he ripped his helmet off of his head, the obsidian armor piece crashed to the ground, implanting itself into the dirt. He got on his hands and knees and began banging the ground in pain for the death of his brother.

"Hadion..." he said sadly, he got up at the sound of footsteps. He looked at the hill he fell off of and saw his sword laying on the dirt that connected the hill with the flat land. Varek walked over to it slowly, grasping his eye in pain. He took his left hand off of his eye and looked at it, his blood all over it. His eye was gone.

Varek continued to his sword and picked it up, turning around knowing enemies were behind him. 3 Nether soldiers and a Voltaris stood readily to kill him, slowly approaching him.

"For Uron... for Hadion..." He said, his eye engulfed with purple anger. He dashed at the first soldier, cutting his head off and turning around. While he was facing backwards he dashed behind the Voltaris, tripping him. Varek then dug his sword into the Voltaris' back, his markings fading. The two other soldiers just blindly ran at Varek.

When one approached him and raised his sword to strike at Varek, Varek grabbed the arm his sword was in with his left hand, and used his other hand to slice his sword across the waist of the soldier. He threw the soldier at the other, both collapsing on the ground with one on top of the other. Varek grabbed his sword with both hands and turned it to a backhand, jumping up and digging his sword into both of the soldiers, killing them both at once.

Varek sighed, both out of sadness and pain from his eye. He turned to the right to see King Chronos standing at the portal, a few soldiers entering it. He turned around which gave Varek a chance to run up to him and kill him. Varek took it, running at King Chronos to finish what should have been finished a long time ago. When Varek approached King Chronos he had raised his sword and was about to strike down on him, until King Chronos turned around and punched him in the chest, making Varek fly into a nearby dirt mound.

"Your son... killed my brother." Varek said as he wiped the blood off of his mouth, getting up and readied himself to fight none other than the King of the hellish Nether Realm.

"A job well done, he will be rewarded." King Chronos said as he took out the Sword of the Nether.

"You Netherians want nothing but death, and destruction of my home!" Varek called out his ambitions.

"The Nether knows what's best for the world, we will tear it down, and build it back up." King Chronos said, Varek had enough of his talking and ran at King Chronos.

King Chronos whipped his sword from a backhand to block Varek's attack from above. Varek kicked King Chronos leg which upset his balance a little bit, but King Chronos recovered. The King swung his sword at the Prince's neck, which Varek rolled underneath him and kick his stomach, pushing him back. Three nearby Ender Dragons flew overhead, when Varek noticed this he raised his sword and had the three dragons breathe purple flame onto King Chronos.

"You're father is a coward. He never leaves his dragon to fight me face to face." King Chronos said as an orange forcefield protected him from the dragons breath. While waiting for King Chronos to make a move, Varek saw Thalleous mobiliflash into a Voltaris, killing him instantly. The purple fire extinguished, and King Chronos shot an orange beam from his arm.

"What a poor Ender Knight, he doesn't even know his realms magic." He said as the beam reached Varek, and a purple energy barrier blocked it.

"I wouldn't bite your tongue." Varek said as he put his hand on the ground, a purple beam of energy went towards King Chronos, creating a line of purple fire.

"Stupid... Enderian!" King Chronos yelled as he ran at Varek and clashed his blade onto his. Varek grabbed King Chronos' arm and threw him into the fire, near the portal. King Chronos got up and patted his arm to extinguish the purple fire, standing next to the portal.

"You may have bested me once, Ender Prince, but I will return... and I will kill you and Rendor... and bury you next to your brother!" King Chronos yelled, this provoked Varek to run at King Chronos. King Chronos swung at his arm. To counter this, Varek grabbed his arm and sliced King Chronos' chest, and kicked him into the portal.

Achillean stood next to Taranis, and shot an aggrobeam at 3 undead, slicing them all by the neck.

"We are losing men, Tidesinger, what do we do?" Taranis asked, Achillean reassured him.

"The Nether has retreated, the Voltaris are all that's left, give them everything you've got, it's time we-" Achillean was cut off by a low hymn sound, that came from the peak of the mountain.

"I have broken many rules of the Ardoni... it's time I break one more." Ingressus said as he put his hand on one of the two obsidian pillars, the center between them began to glow purple. He was casting Dark Magic, and creating something that should never exist, and will never exist again. He began whispering a ritual, and boom! A blast of dark energy flowed throughout Ardonia's skies, and then was consumed back into the swirling darkness. All Ingressus had to do was wait...

"It's time we face the Deathsinger." Achillean continued, staring at the dark energy. He began running towards the mountain with his staff in hand. Thalleous caught up to him and ran alongside him, the Ardoni near him cheered him on.

"Deathsinger..." Varek said as he gazed at the dark energy around the peak of the mountain. The Great War had begun its end. An Ardoni with an iron staff ran up to him and aimed his staff at him. A Supporium green glow went around and healed his wounds, the blood of his eye disappeared, but the scar remained.

"That's all I can do, the Challengers are going up the mountain to face the Deathsinger, go get him Varek!" The Ardoni cheered as Varek got off his knees and put his sword on his back, and began running. After about a minute of running a familiar figure stood and ran by his side.

"Do you go running often?" Varek asked Zulius, who kept running despite being out of breath.

"Not... as much... as I used... to..." he spat out as Achillean and Thalleous grouped up with them and ran with them to the mountain. All soldiers of man, felina, magnorite and Ardoni cheered them on.

"A group of rogue Netherians ahead, we need to do something smart and fast." Achillean said as they stopped in their tracks.

"I have an idea." Varek said, he grabbed Achillean and threw him upwards, which Achillean panicked and stood upside down on a mobilibounce pad. Varek used supporolift to create steps, he ran up and jumped over the soldiers that were distracted by Achillean, and aggroquaked them all, killing all of them.

"How many was that? 10? 20?" Varek bragged as the others caught up, and Achillean got off of his pad.

"I'll admit, that was smart, but let me know next time." Achillean said, trying to sound smart.

"Okay, Captain." Varek saluted as they began running again, until they reached the mountain, and began ascending it.

"When we get up there, we need to hit him hard and fast, Varek you will go in first just to catch him off guard. Then Zulius and I will try to disarm him, Thalleous will go for the kill." Achillean said as Thalleous scoffed.

"It won't be that easy... but we can try." He said, after about 20 minutes of climbing, they made it up to the point where if they climbed higher they would be seen by Ingressus.

"Are you sure you're ready?." Ingressus said, foiling there plans immediately.

The Challengers got up there and stood in front of him, taking out their weapons. The Deathsinger took out his, his sword engulfing in flames. The final battle was about to begin.