FfD: Rolan Empire

Loss

Ninja: "What the hell did you do?! Where's Creator?!?"

King Yami: "Gone. Hopefully, for good."

King Yami was an evil man, but as he spoke about what he had just done, he did not smile, he did not laugh, he had no expression on his face. Dragon became fueled with anger and attempted to strike Yami with a flaming war hammer but was easily counterattacked and thrown to the ground. One by one each member of the team was taken down by King Yami, leaving Wonteia and Bounty Hunter as the last two standing.

Bounty Hunter: "You're going to die. You're not going to win. You will fall."

Wonteia turned to Bounty Hunter and as he did he was knocked to the ground by him.

Bounty Hunter: *looking down at Wonteia* "Just like your leader."

Ares summoned a portal and sent the injured team along with Wonteia through it.

Ares: "Not today."

Bounty Hunter: "You're fighting the wrong guys if you think you can get away with an outnumbered fight."

Athena: "He's not outnumbered."

Athena had returned from getting the descendants to safety and was trying her best to hold it together after what happened to Creator.

King Yami: "Hunter. Return to base and prepare. They're not worth our time. I'll be busy making sure who's on the right side of this war."

Athena: "War? Are you convinced this is the same era you lived in before?"

Bounty Hunter summoned a portal and left. King Yami turned to Ares and Athena.

King Yami: "I'm truly sorry. Not for Creator, no no, rather because you have no idea what's coming. I said war, I damn well meant it, and this time, there is no Creator in my way. So no, I do not think I am in that disappointing time, I am fully aware that this is a new era."

King Yami walked through the portal summoned by Bounty Hunter, leaving nothing but destruction behind.

***

Dragon: "He's much more powerful than before. Nobody else has ever done anything that damaging to Creator."

Derek: "He chose the wrong time to try and start a 'war' with us."

Blood: "I can't believe Hunter would turn on us the way he did. The respect he had for Creator, his morals compared to King Yami's, I j-"

Ninja: "He's a business man above all else. Something was offered to him."

Chaos: "Had to be something big to turn on Creator like that.

Wonteia: "Perhaps he sensed something we did not. He's never been entitled to the side of a hero nor the side of a villain due to his business-ran mindset, Creator was dead, King Yami stood tall, and we were all weak. Hunter-"

Corrupto: "Hunter stabbed us in the damn back!"

Derek: "And you never have?"

Corrupto: "You're the wrong person to talk about betrayal Rodriguez."

Corrupto began to walk towards Derek but was stopped by Ares.

Ares: "This really how you guys wanna go down? As the dysfunctional team that was supposed to protect these dimensions but couldn't because you constantly got in fights???"

Corrupto: "What the hell do you know?"

Ares: "I know that your leader and friend got killed and that a dangerous, powerful monster is out there and intends to start a war with all of you."

Corrupto: "You need to watch what you're saying."

Dark: "Why should he? I mean honestly, is he wrong? How many damn times have we screwed up missions because of petty arguments or disagreements?? There are so many people, so many heroes, out there in these dimensions that could do so much more with the abilities we were granted. We aren't fit to protect these dimensions..."

Dark summoned a portal and looked at the team.

Dark: "We never were. Creator was just that, the Dimension Creator, not its assigned protector, and us? We were just some villains and heroes that he kept around so it was easier to keep tabs on us. Maybe it's the truth, maybe it isn't. Who knows? Creator does, but he's gone, and now, so am I. Goodbye."

Dark walked through the portal, ignoring any attempt to stop him and leaving the team in silence.

Ares: "So what now?"

Athena: "You all can do whatever the hell you want, Garrett is gone. I'm leaving, and I'm taking Eric and Evelyn."

Athena left without hesitation, nobody could've convinced her otherwise, and nobody tried.

Zhanshi Sun: "Hasn't Creator died and come back before?"

Wonteia: "Technically. But he was essentially immortal before, so for all we know, he could've been dead or alive at those points. This time, considering who he was killed by, and the way he was killed, he has to be dead..."

The room was silent, at the firm realization that they had just lost their good friend and leader for sure, none of them could speak. All that was heard was the stiff sobbing of Creator's closest friends as nothing but tears hit the floor. This was loss. Losing Rolan and losing Creator shortly after on the day of Rolan's funeral, being unable to have either of them back, and already watching their team dismantle itself.

That is Loss. This was FfD: Rolan Empire. See you in the next one.