Ark Lore Part 4: The Conclusion

In Phayor

"Leave Raymond alone!" Zac shouts from the end of the street. He slams his sector down and uses his free hand to summon two large fireballs. The fireballs made their way towards Clark. But Clark disappeared into the shadows causing them to destroy a building more and light it ablaze. Zac looked around trying to find where Clark went. Out of the corner of his eye Zac saw Clark appear in an alleyway. Zac reacted fast and wrapped Clark's hand with a snake. Zac pulled on the snake causing Clark to be dragged out of hiding. Zac used this opportunity to attack Clark with more balls of fire. But Clark was quick and diapered again and swiftly appeared in front of Zac kicking him down on the ground. A tentacle wrapped around Zac and threw him into a wall.

"AGHHHH!" Zac screamed as he slammed into the wall. Raymond began to sit up as he heard Zac's screams.

"ZAC NO!!!" Raymond yelled as he got up and ran towards his fiancé's side. Before he could get to him a tentacle came rushing at Raymond. But he was able to narrowly dodge it.

"I'm done playing with rodents like you! Time to have some real fun!" Clark screamed as he picked up Raymond's cherished katana. With his free hand he ripped the artificial Stone of Strength from its spot. A look of accomplishment and insanity filled Clark's face as the stone began to float in his hand. The stone began to spin around as energy left Clarks hand and filled the stone. As the stone spun faster it turned a dim grey and quickly exploded knocking down Clark and Raymond.

"Wha... that's not supposed to happen," Clark mutter as he looked at the gray shards that lied on the ground before him. Clark was cut off as he felt a pain surface in his side. It was a swift kick from Raymond's boot.

"HOW DARE YOU TOUCH HIM!" Raymond shouted as he lifted Clark up from his shoulders.

"THIS IS WHAT YOU GET FOR HURTING MY FIANCE!" Raymond continued to shout as he punched Clark in the head. Blood left Clark's mouth.

"YOU HURT HIM NOT ONCE BUT TWICE!!!! YOU WILL ROT IN HELL YOU FUCKER!" Raymond shouted as he pinned Clark against a crumbling wall. Raymond used his claws to dig into Clark's chest, ripping his robes.

"YOU WILL NEVER SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY AGAIN!" Raymond shouted as he drew his right arm to go for another punch. Sunlight pierced Clark's eyes, snapping him out of the trance he was in from his failure. Using this brief moment Clark used a wind rune to blast Raymond to the other side of the street.

"What a sorry excuse for a replica!" Clark retorted as a tentacle sprang up from the ground. Raymond rubbed his hand on the back of his head.

"Oh I'm not done with you yet!" Raymond shouted as he stood up.

"Oh that's cute, but your fuck buddy is!" Clark said in a mocking voice as he commanded the tentacle to grab a chunk of stone from a nearby building. Raymond pulled a short dagger from his inner coat pocket and ran towards Clark.

"I wouldn't take a step closer if I were you!" Clark taunted. Raymond stopped dead in his tracks as he noticed the tentacle was above Zac's unconscious body ready to drop the stone. Raymond's amber eye widened in horror as he froze in place. Time felt like it slowed down as the tentacle slowly loosened its grip on the large hunk of stone it dangled above Zac. Tiny pebbles began to fall off of the stone and fall on the ground, some landed on Zac's back and head causing him to groan. Zac lifted his head up to see the large stone dangling above his head. He looked ahead to see Raymond frozen in place out of fear. Zac panned his head to his right to see Clark grinning as he commanded the tentacle to release the stone. Just as the tentacle unwrapped itself from the stone a flash of deep blue and red overwhelmed everyone's sight, causing the stone to be reduced to dust. As the dust cleared Lars was flying in place above Zac rubbing his hand as blue and red particles dispersed around him.

"Ow! Damn that punch hurt!" Lars shouted as he rubbed his sore hand.

"GIVE THEM TO ME!" Clark shouted as he saw Lars.

"Never!" Lars shouted back as he gripped on the handle of the Axe of the Oppressed.

"Fine then I will just take them!" Clark screamed as he fired purple magical blasts at Lars. Lars was able to swiftly dodge them in the air before going in to get a hit on Clark. Lars flew above Clark and went for a ground slam. The artificial Stone of Death glowed black. Clark used his shadow teleportation and disappeared before the axe made contact with him. Once Lars hit the ground, a small explosion happened. Lars looked around confused as he had no idea what he just witnessed. Within a few seconds Clark appeared in front of Raymond catching him off guard. Clark used this window of opportunity to blast him in the chest with a purple blast.

"Gahhh!" Raymond yelled out in pain as he fell to the ground.

"RAYMOND!" Zac shouted as he stood up using his father's sector to steady himself.

"Oh this is going to be fun," Clark said with a twisted smile as he used two tentacles to grab one of Raymond's arms and lifted him up so his toes barely touched the ground. Raymond grunted as he weakly lifted his head and saw a flash of light appear behind Clark. It was Zac teleporting, as soon as the flash happened Zac hit Clark in the back of his head with the bottom of his sector.

"Gahhhh!" Clark shouted as he fell to his knees and grabbed his head.

"Lars now!" Zac shouted. Lars ran over and drop kicked Clark using the Stone of Strength.

"Zac get Raymond out of here! Do you have enough energy to teleport?" Lars asked as he held Raymond up.

"I don't know but it won't hurt to try," Zac said as he used his free hand to grab on to Raymond, "Lars don't let him near the Sacred Stones! And please don't lose!" Zac said before he teleported away.

"Don't worry I won't!" Lars said proudly as Zac disappeared with Raymond.