The final stance

The encounter

POV: Xisuma

I took off from my base a bit annoyed that I ran out of the material I needed. However the sun was setting and so it wouldn't be as hot as it was earlier in the day, so I decided it would be a good time to head out as it would be getting cooler as the night came.

The sky's were clear apart from a few vague clouds here and there and the view was really beautiful. I wonder why I don't watch the sun set all the time, but my brain reminds me that I'm the admin and I have no time to do such.

I was heading to the shopping district flying and enjoying the slight breeze and pressure I got from the speed I was flying at. Humming in a pleasant tone as I was calm, until I saw dark clouds start to firm over me out of the small gauge ones.

Then small drops of rain fell into me, after a few tics it started to pour, the rain got harder and it felt like it may begin to hail. I discarded the not so happy thought as I was getting more and more closer to the shopping district.

I only had a bit more to go and I didn't want my worries to ruin my mood, I told myself I would make it. And that it was gonna be fine. Sadly even after my little pep talk to myself my anxiety ran 100 miles per hour but I began to try and breathe in and out trying to calm myself down a bit.

But I knew I should have trusted the gut feeling I had, because a bit of ice fell straight onto my visor causing it to crack. I whispered to myself "Oh my days.." with an annoyed tone. But as soon as I set off another rocket, not even a tic later a block of ice went straight through one of my wings, I lost all control of myself as the balance I had left and I started to become wobbly.

I thought to myself about how much of a derp move it was to come out here. And I was right as I should have known that not even 2 tics later a few more started to fall and my visor was covered in the heavy rain still falling along with the hail. I took a bit of damage as a piece of hail hit me in the head. I tried to gain balance again but mh wings were too damaged, holes and rips through it all.

I then saw lightning flash over the sky with thunder not following that short behind it and I began to start panicking, just then it felt like a hard kick was struck to my back, like a warden or the dragon stepped on it with all its might, I felt electricity run through my veins. My body went tight and limp a few seconds after as I felt the life get knocked out of me, ears ringing loudly and blood started coming out of my nose. I then began to feel numb after I started to fall, straight into the island under me.

I was going head first into it. I wrapped my arms around myself and closed my eyes tight. I felt like my neck broke into a bunch of small pieces, my spine shook as I landed roughly and painfully. I cried out in pain and the ringing in my ears only got worse and louder. you normally wouldn't feel this much pain or any depending on the cause, however this felt so much more worse than normal, I've fallen down from higher places then that and only felt like I sprained a leg. This felt awful. Like I was stabbed with a bunch of scolding hot greatswords in my back and neck.

Hot tears fell down my face and down my cheeks, and took a deep sharp breath and sand made its way through the filters on my mask causing me to go into a coughing fit. I made my way onto all fours trying to get up to check my surroundings. I then heard a deep distorted chuckle above me. I paused for a moment, my brain recognizing the voice of wear the said chuckle came from. My face went pale.

My brother. EvilX, my twin brother. MY evil counterpart. I proceeded to get out my sword as I looked up and tried to stand, only to be kicked down by Ex. Ex laughed at me and said,"Look what washed up on shore". I tried to get up again only to be splashed with a weakness potion. Somehow able to taste the bitterness. I panicked, was this really the way I would go out? By my own brother? What would the other hermits do, would they even care? I shook my head trying to not think about stuff like that. Instead I needed to think about how I needed to get out of the situation I was in.

So I proceeded to dash sideways and stand up. Which Ex didn't expect but only smirked in response. Unlike my twin, I needed a filter for the air, I was a void walker but Ex wasn't, and I knew to keep my face far away from my twin as I didn't want to go out suffocating. I swung my sword at Ex missing, only to get punched again knocking me back with a stumble. My anxiety was horrid; I just wanted to get back to the hermits I cared dearly for.

I kept getting kicked extremely hard in the ribs, it felt like it went on for hours. I groaned in pain as my twin pinned me down into the rough sand and knocked my sword out of my hands over to the sea only to step off of me to grab his own. I got up swiftly and tried to grab my sword only to have a slash to my head, I felt stinging and then felt blood start to slowly drip down my head colliding with the glass planted into the skin on my face from his broken visor. I coughed up blood as I took another kick to the stomach. Stumbling backwards I felt my mask fall off as I took a hard punch to the face.

I sucked in the thick earth air and choked on it. I tried to regulate my breathing but ended up feeling a sharp pain start to form on my stomach. I looked down to see a deep wound across it. I grimaced at the sight of it, trying to stifle a gag and looking up. I looked into my twins eyes dead on. Tears and sweat dripped down my face but Ex'e face didn't even have a scratch or a drop of sweat. I dropped to my knees in defeat, I did try my best but the overwhelming pain was too much.

I wrapped an arm around the deep cut on my stomach to try and stop some of the bleeding, and then tried to put my other hand into the sandy ground only to be met with a stab in my shoulder. I choked out a son and screamed out in agony. I started to hear my brother's voice but couldn't make out what he was saying. My ears were still ringing so loud. Next I heard a muffle Cub's voice in the distance yelling something.

I then saw Ex teleport away as my vision became spotted with black dots. I noticed Keralis was following Cub not so far behind. But last I saw Cub and Keralis run up to me with a few of the other hermits behind them yelling, or some with worried looks or both. Next I felt warm comforting hands on my waist and back, as I fell into the warmth of a person. The black started to consume my eyes fully.

I passed out...