The Light and Dark brothers

Chapter 10 The Sacrifices

Jax found the three girls, they were about to walk back to the inn. "Hey guys over here," Jax waved to them telling them to come over. "Hey Jax, why aren't you at the inn," Astrid asked. Jax replied, "Ash has a present for the birthday girl and yes we know it's you, Sophia. Oh before I forget, did you give her a gift Isabel." Isabel grinned at Sophia who knew it was her that told everyone that it was her birthday, "Happy birthday Sophia, Astrid, and I got it for you, oh and I guess Jax helped too." Jax smirked, Sophia teared up, she never got a present from someone besides Isabel, "Thank you guys so much," she sniffled. Astrid and Isabel hugged Sophia tightly squeezing her. "Okay please, you are going to kill me." They let go of her, letting her breathe, "Okay now that you got a cool bracelet Ash and King are waiting for you at Mount Olympus, King has a present for you too and it means a lot to him so make sure you cherish it," Jax hurried them. Meanwhile, Ash and King are in the temple, "I should be able to reach her from here," Ash thought out loud. "Hey Ash, you never told me what god helped you, and actually you know like," King questioned Ash. "Well her title might not be welcoming but she helped me get through the pits of the underworld once. Her name is Hera Goddess of Marriage and she has one big grudge against Zeus. She doesn't really mind killing the other gods, she just wants to get rid of Zeus, and yes we can't fully get rid of gods but we can destroy their bodies so they can't come back or just fade away." The two go to the altar to request for Hera and suddenly Ash puts up a barrier behind them that is level five without even saying it, "Ash and King stop right there, don't take one more step or else," Creed yelled out. King joked, "Or what, what can you three do." Grim called to the altar, "Zeus hear me send Hercules to aid us please!" Ash turned around with anger in his eyes, "You bastard, how could you call him, that prick is somewhere flying with his pony!" the ground started to shake then the roof caved in. There on his horse on top of the rumble is Hercules, "Oh great the idiot is here, really Grim could you call for anyone else," King made fun of Hercules. Ash gets furious at this stupidity, "Fine then so be it but I am going to kill all of you right here and now." Hercules got off Pegasus and unsheathed his iron sword, "So you are the one who is causing this unrest with the god, well I will take you down making the gods proud of me," Hercules points the tip of the blade at Ash who finally had enough with everything. He takes off his blindfold unveiling his eyes that are glowing red like lava, "King get out of here, Take everyone away from here. Far away past the town and just keep going. Tell Jax it is not the time to release his final form, we need to plan it. This might kill me but it is worth it getting rid of this imbecile, tell Sophia she is going to have to wait for her present." King put his hand on Ash's shoulder which was burning his hand, "You are the best brother anyone could have." He started to run then Hercules ran in front of King blocking him while Grim, Creed, and Sarah blocked the entrance. Ash vanished then appeared with his fist hitting Hercules making him hit the wall of the temple. "GO NOW," Ash rushed King to make his way outside. King pulled his sword from him and struck the ground releasing spirits into the ground, the spirits came back up to grab the light brother and Sarah's legs. "Go Kage, stall him," Kage jumped from the shadows of the temple. Creed stabbed the spirits with his holy Excalibur releasing them from its grasp. While the fighting was going on Jax saw the thunderstorm brewing on the top of the temple, "Astrid I may need your help with this one. The light brothers may have called reinforcements." Astrid with worry all over her face turned to Sophia and Isabel, "You two stay right here we need to help Ash and King, whatever you do don't go up there and be ready for anything." Jax added before running up the stairs to Mount Olympus, "Have your weapons at the ready and yell for any of us and we will be there." Astrid hugged them before joining Jax.

At the top Ash used his level five blue flames on Hercules burning his flesh but not killing him, "You may have super strength from the gods but you are too stupid to learn magic spells that are not a gift from the gods." Hercules gets up from the blast of flames and rushes Ash hitting and pinning him against the wall, "If I win, it will please the gods." Ash sent level four red lighting down hitting Hercules making him drop Ash, "Is that all you care about, god you have never felt real pain haven't you." Ash then activates strength boosts, "Strength boost level five." He punches Hercules in the body multiple times with speed that looks like one punch. Hercules gets back up after the flurry of blows with pieces of his lion armor tearing and ripping. King yells at the light brother, "Let's see if you can handle my Rage of War," King slices open his hand making his hair glow a fiery red almost like flames. Then his pupils widen and go from brown to red, he swings his sword wildly which now turns red too. That gives the spirits that come out a bigger explosion and also makes them uncontrollable. Creed's mask activates showing how he is going to attack next but because he is in a frenzy his attacks are unpredictable. Grim Shoots five arrows in quick succession while Sarah uses fire arrow magic and her firefox launches its small fire blasts. King releases ten red spirits who target the three. Five get hit with the arrows exploding with tremendous power while the other gets hit by the other projectiles. King screams out, "FIRE TORNADO LEVEL FOUR!" King gets surrounded by a tornado that is encased with red fire making it hard to stand and breathe at the same time. Jax and Astrid get to the temple to see all hell breaking loose, "Ash where are you!" Astrid called for Ash but couldn't see him because of the fire tornado. The light brothers turn around to see the two standing there. "Jax, go see if Ash needs help, I will take care of these three." Jax unsheathed his Katana from his hip and jumped over the tornado to see where Ash was. "I've been practicing with Ash and now all of my work has paid off. LIGHTNING LEVEL FIVE," Astrid shouted out her newly acquired magic. The spell hit all of Creed's wolves making it revert back into one single wolf of fire. "Hey, your fight is with me!" Sarah bellowed. Sarah sent her fox after her and followed behind the fox to do a joint attack. Astrid drew her Featherlite sword with speed blocking the teeth of the fox and hitting down Sarah's sword then elbowing her in the mouth, "I learn that one from Ash." Sarah got enraged and rushed in with her blade ready to strike and her fox ready to pounce. Astrid blocks her attacks with her sword while one hand is behind her back. Then Sarah goes for a leg swoop that knocks Astrid off her feet and hits the ground, Sarah jumps going for the final blow but Astrid rolls to the left out of the way of the blade and kicks Sarah in the side pushing her to the right, Astrid hops up and sends lighting down, "Lightning level two," it hits Sarah shocking her with green lightning. Sarah screams in agony which makes Grim turn around to see what happen. He saw Astrid hit her with lightning and he shot an arrow at her feet canceling the lightning bolt barrage. He Jumps in front of Sarah and commands Astrid, "Stand down Astrid this is not your fight." Astrid yells back, "The hell it is!" Astrid readies her sword with an elegant stance while Grim charges his bow powering up his holy shot. Ash grows tired of fighting and draws his pure black sword that looks like it can eat away at the light. "I am getting tired of this, just die already." Hercules is barely standing after getting electrocuted over and over again by lightning but he keeps getting up. "I will never fall because I am a god, I am immortal," Hercules hurled out with his face busted up. Ash stabs the ground with his sword and puts his hand out in front of him, igniting two black flames from his hands, "I can't control this power so I must do this quickly. it's much stronger than any fire magic you can learn. I was born to wield fire but with my little brother Ian and his sacrifice I can wield this flame that burns the body and scars the soul." Ash slams both flames into the sword which infuses it with the black flames. He pulls the sword out of the ground showing its blade that was still pure black with blackish-grey flames surrounding the blade. Jax lands next to Ash, feeling the power in the sword, and asks quickly, "How long can you keep this blade under control without hurting yourself." Ash with a fiery circle forming around him, "Not for long, go take down King and put down the others. I'll handle him, and Jax, save that power for the stronger gods, you only can do it once so save it for Zeus." Jax unstraps his adamantite broadsword from his back and runs into the tornado with force breaking the tornado and forcing King to jump out of the way. Now Jax is in the middle facing Creed on the left and King on the right they both charge at the same time making Jax use dagger storm which launches knives all around him in all directions. Two knives hit King in the arm he put in front of his face still charging full force while Creed used his mask's powers to dodge and weave his way through the barrage of knives. Outside Isabel and Sophia look up towards the temple hearing and seeing explosions. "What should we do Sophia? they might be in danger up there." Sophia tells Isabel, "We can't go up there, it's dangerous, don't you remember what Astrid said to us." Isabel revolted, "But we can't just stay here and do nothing, I am going to go and help Ash." Sophia raced after Isabel, "No wait we can't, they told us to stay Isabel!" Isabel pulled out her poison twin fang daggers. Sophia had no choice but to take out her weapon but it didn't weigh anything because of the gauntlet Ash gave her. They ran up the stairs getting closer to the fight ready to help out. Right, when they reach the temple entrance a holy blast blows them back almost making them fall down the hundreds of stairs. They regain their footing and rush in to help, the explosions go silent, a stray arrow hits Isabel in the chest knocking her onto the floor, Sophia hyperventilates. She cried, "ISABEL!"