Dark Blood

Chapter 31: The Final Battle

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Trigger Warning!
This Chapter contains depictions of Cannibalism, Death, Gore, Violence, Fighting, Battle, Blood, Intense Injuries, Life-threatening Injuries, body horror, grotesque horror, mutilation, suffering, and character death. Reader's discretion is highly advised!

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All the Arkums roared and ran toward the kids with full intent to kill them all and the Fallen did the same. None of the kids seemed mentally capable to fight, even as the Arkum and Fallen were getting closer. However, Jackson zoomed forward with his sword and stabbed an Arkum in the heart killing them instantly. As the Arkum withered to dust he raised his sword and faced the other kids.

"Come on you cowards! These freaks took everything from us! Don't let them take anymore!" Sam nodded and stepped up and cut off an Arkums head before stabbing another in the heart. The headless Arkum was about to take revenge, but another kid entered the battle and stabbed it in the heart. Soon everyone full of adrenaline and started fighting, killing, and slicing through all the Arkums while full of rage. At first it seemed like they were winning but it quickly turned out that they were mostly just getting lucky.

The Arkums proved to be both faster and smarter regardless of whether they were hatched or not. The Arkums that managed to dodge or handle the attacks were quickly biting and slicing through any kid they could get their claws on. The few Zerku among the kids quickly got forward and started using their powers to help fight back. one had the power to make a reflective and shiny glass like material, another could make his sword levitate, and there was a girl who could make holy water. the glass kid and water girl were quickly to use their elements to attack the Arkums form a range making glass daggers and large bubbles of water that burned the Arkums skin, while the other boy was using his sword to finish off what he could at a distance.

Once again it seemed like the kids were at an advantage as such Sarah and Sound started using their powers as well to push back and blast apart the Arkums. However, that was until the Fallen started entering the front of the battle. Poison breath, another had rotting fingernails, invisibility, headache infliction, blood draining gaze, metal shifting skin, super strength, acid touch, lighting control, and many more. Not only did they have their powers but their tentacles too, they were practically tearing through the kids with ease. The few Zerku kids fighting were quickly overwhelmed and dying faster than they could fight back.

"Hey! make sure to collect their cores! I want them!" Kira was sitting on Quae-Suun's shoulders while eating a dismembered hand she found and was joyfully chewing on it like a snack. she wanted to be on Quae-Suun's shoulders to see the battle from a better view and to give her Fallen and the Arkums orders. Jackson saw this quickly aimed his blade at her and threw it with all his strength and speed.

Kira saw this and stopped the blade a millisecond before it was going to stab her head and by extension her core. Kira glared at Jackson, she then made the sword levitate toward his direction and shot it at him in high speed. Jackson managed to dodge but it ended up hitting a kid behind him killing them instantly. Jackson just yelled at Kira in rage while she just smirked at him in pride. Jackson looked all around and saw other fallen quickly slaughtering any kid they found.

Jackson and all the other kids fighting couldn't help but be horrified, this was supposed to be kids fighting the adult monsters but now they were fighting other kids too. They had so much rage and frustration toward the Arkums but the Fallen were another subject all together. Nobody knew anything about them or even why they would want to join the monsters that took over the earth and killed all the adults including their parents. it just didn't make sense, so it didn't feel right to kill them let alone hurt them. Yet the Fallen were fighting without mercy, they were even happily and sadistically laughing as they did so. The kids anger quickly turned into fear as their numbers were dropping and the united Fallen and Arkum forces were surrounding them.