The Birth of Ruin

Essence of Molag Bal

What are you doing here!?" A woman walks up to Godsbody. "Just when I thought I was gonna get rid of Daedra, you show up." Nysaiah looks angry and confused. "Leave. I don't even want to see you right now."

"I'm not leaving. I'm a demiprince, and I'm done letting people control me. I'm here to help, not to hurt you." Godsbody says without a second thought.

"So Jo'anir is right. You're a demiprince." Nysaiah remarks, then walks away.

Before Godsbody could try and say a nothing, another voice rings out. "People of Nirn!" It was the old Elf King. "This is the final battle! We either prevail, or we die trying! This will be our last chance. Molag Bal will make sure of that."

King Dynar walks back and fourth in front of the crowd. "This time, we have something we didn't have before. The vestige was a mortal like the rest of us. He wanted his soul back, and that gave him strength. Unfortunately, the vestige still didn't have the strength to defeat Molag Bal. The demiprince is stronger! With the power of the amulet, he can defeat the prince of brutality!" The crowd cheers.

"What if he betrays us!?" A familiar voice shouts above the cheers. "He's betrayed people before! Who's to say he won't do it again?" It was Aranith. "He's loyal to Mehrunes Dagon, not us!"

Godsbody pushes through the crowd to stand by King Dynar. "If I were here to sabotage your little operation, I would have. I wouldn't give you hope then crush it. I may be a demiprince, but I was raised by mortals. I have more humanity then other Daedra do." Godsbody knew Nysaiah could say something to contest him, but she kept her mouth shut, and so did Aranith.

King Dynar seems to ignore their whole conversation. "Let's go kill some minions of Molag Bal!" He shouts and the rest of the crowd shouts as well, but that was just part of the distraction.

"Godsbody, you remember the plan, right?" One of the companions that helped the vestige says walking up. Godsbody nods at him. "King Dynar said he filled you in. I'm Sai Sahan." The man was a strong Redguard. Redguards are skilled swardsmen with darker skin then the other non-mer races.

"Godsbody, as you know. I'll have to change to my real form to gain the power of the amulet in full." Sai Sahan nods.

"We won't need to sacrifice someone. After we retrieved the amulet of kings from the vestige's body, it still had power from the initial sacrifice and can still be used again. Let me know when you're ready, and we'll give it to you to challenge Molag Bal."

Godsbody walks a bit away from Sai and the rest of the group of shouting warriors. One second, he looks like a mortal, the next he's a large four armed Daedra. "I'm ready," he says.

Sai then pulls out a red diamond shaped amulet. Godsbody leans forward, and Sai puts the amulet around his neck.

Right away, he feels the power of the amulet flow through his veins. It felt rejuvenating and Godsbody felt invincible. He felt like he could destroy an army with a swipe of his hand.

"You'll have to get Molag's attention." Sai says and gestures off into the distance. "Do what your nature tells you, go destroy stuff Godsbody." Godsbody does as he's told.

He runs off embracing his new power, he destroys every Daedra in sight. "Mehrunes Dagon!" Godsbody hears a a very loud voice, and he looks around for the source. The large figure of Molag Bal stands near by. "Wait. You are not Dagon. Curious."

"I'm here to defeat you, Molag Bal." Godsbody says back, ignoring his comments. The creature before him was lizard like, but also skeletal at the same time. It wasn't a nice thing to look at.

Molag Bal just laughs. "Defeat me? Haha! There's a reason you're just a Daedra, not a Daedric prince. You're weaker than I am."

"That's where you're wrong!" Godsbody unsheathes two swords with his front arms. "I'm not just a Daedra. I'm a demiprince imbued with the power of the amulet of kings. I'm probably just as strong as you are, maybe even more." Godsbody throws one of his swords at Molag Bal. the Daedric prince just brushes it aside.

"Daedra do not contest with Daedric princes and win, fool!" Molag Bal changes to a smaller version of himself and stands before Godsbody. The lizard like Daedric prince is a little taller then Godsbody. Godsbody changes his remaining sword to his dominant hand. The Daedric prince holds a mace.

Godsbody rolls his shoulders, and Molag takes a swing at him, and Godsbody hold up his sword to block the attack. Godsbody uses the block to counterattack. He punches Molag in the gut.

The prince grunts and takes a step back. Godsbody is merciless and keeps taking punches at Molag Bal.

After Molag endures a few hits, he swings his mace up, hitting Godsbody in the jaw. He becomes airborn and lands in a puddle of Coldharbour water, which he's not exactly sure what the liquid is.

Godsbody quickly gets back up. "You can't defeat me, and even if you could, us Daedra can't die. All those mortals will die in vein." Molag laughs.

Godsbody swings his sword at Molag unexpectedly. The sword lacerates Molag's chest, and the Daedric prince grunts from the blow.

That seemed to only make Molag mad. He swings his mace with such force that Godsbody had to duck instead of block. Godsbody felt Molag's mace slice the air where his head has just been.

Godsbody uses the momentum of Molag's attack to stab him in the gut with his sword. Godsbody pulls his sword out and moves away from the Daedric prince. Momentarily, the fight stops. "You're strong, I'll admit that demiprince. You can't beat me."

Godsbody knew that he couldn't fully defeat a Daedric prince, but maybe he could permanently weaken him. "I may not be able to, but this can." Godsbody pulls the amulet off of himself and hold it facing Molag Bal. A beam of white light shoots out of the amulet and hits Molag Bal in the chest.

Molag Bal screams as the light sucks his essence out of his body. Godsbody didn't know that would happen, and it kind of frightened him, so he pulls the amulet away, and Molag Bal falls to his knees. "What... did you do..?" He says weakly.

"I defeated you, as I said I would." Godsbody says, then he uses his sword to finish off the Daedric prince by decapitating him. Molag Bal seems to explode, and all the souls he captured were released. Suddenly, Godsbody was back in the Hollow City. His sword in one hand, the amulet of kings in another.

"You... did it, didn't you?" Nysaiah stands before the demiprince.

"Yes, he did." The Gatekeeper walks over. "Good job, Demiprince." All Godsbody does is mod at the two.