The Lost one's journey

Part 42: The Shadow King end. (Season finale)

Voda crushes Ikati's soul gem in his hand. Her body stops healing and falls to the ground lifelessly. Voda then snaps his head at the dancing man, who shows him a drawing of him slaying Ikati. Suddenly, he sees the red ink receding somewhere and quickly darts his head to where it's going, but a black wall blocks his vision. The man now suddenly stands atop a building facing Voda. "Ah, ah, ah. No peeking." He says this to Voda, even waving his finger at him. Voda's face stays calm, but shadows rage around him as he whips his bladed arm at the man. The man slices cleanly in half, but his body instead breaks down into red ink, greatly confusing Voda.

Meanwhile, Folmon is running between alleys while tightly holding Pocu, who's unconscious, in his arms. He doesn't say anything, trying to stay calm and lowering his breathing as he remembers the direction to the portal out of Kruha. He then clicks his tongue to cast a spell. "Domo, Raphael is dead. We have to get out while we still can. Whoever the guy talking to Voda is, he seems to be helping us. Where are you?" He asks as he peeks over to her wall, seeing Voda furiously battling the man as he summons forth armies of soldiers to battle Voda's own army of panthers. Folmon looks at the war in fear as he quickly ducks back into the alleyway before moving closer to the black palace. As he's moving, Domo responds to him in his mind. "I was recovering something we'll need. The Sun and Moon Arcana are dead, so we don't have to worry about them. I'm heading to the palace right now. Stay hidden if a panther sees any of us; we're dead. I doubt he's fully focused on that fight. He hardly seems to be-" Domo abruptly stops talking, worrying Folmon. "Domo!? What happened!?" Folmon then looks up, seeing a panther on the roof of the building he's hiding behind. The panther growls at him before pouncing. Folmon tries to click his tongue to cast a spell, but the panther is faster, almost clawing at him, until the man suddenly appears from the few droplets of red ink left on the ground and lets the panther bite him instead. "RUN! HE KNOWS YOUR HERE!" He shouts at Folmon, who quickly starts dashing away while clicking his tongue to cast spells to enhance his speed.

Voda looks at the man as his clones battle his panthers. "I will kill you all. Whether you're in this world or the next, you will die a painful death by my hand." He says to the man, The man's body seems to shrink. 'Crap. There is not enough ink to keep me flowing. She's already running out of mana. Damnit Pocu You just had to break down, huh!?' The man grins at Voda before flipping him off. "Can't kill what can't die dumb-" Before he can finish, Voda slices his jaw off as he suddenly appears before him. "There is no such thing as a creature without death. For those creatures are gods." He says it with a quiet rage before slicing the man into bits. He summons another swarm of panthers with his other hand, which are all split into two groups and dash in two directions. The man reforms and grabs onto Voda's blade. "I'll show you a god." He says this with a cackle as his body slowly dissolves into red ink, with his clones soon following. Voda cleans the ink off his arm by whipping it before flying high into the sky with his wings. He looks over his kingdom. Many buildings are destroyed and collapsed, with some even lit in flames. His kingdom was crumbling before him.
He then spots two little moving creatures, almost invisible from where he is. They're both dashing towards his palace, but one of them appears to be on all fours. Voda starts to fly towards the running one, quickly arriving in front of Pocu and Folmon. He stands before the two, his immense height towering before them. Folmon quickly clicks his tongue, summoning the head of a wyvern to breathe flames on Voda, but without hardly any force or urgency, he slices the head in two. Folmon attempts to run with a look of complete fear on his face, but Voda seems to teleport in front of him and raises his blade into the air, prepared to bring it down on the two of them.

The man, now in his white room, picks up a canvas with a creature drawn on it. "Can he defeat a god of the day from the human world?" He asks with a chuckle as he tosses the drawing high into the sky of his room. "Clap." He says. Pocu, while still unconscious, claps her hands, and a light suddenly shines, and a creature fires out of Pocu's eye, pushing Voda far back. Folmon doesn't question anything and turns to continue running towards the palace.

Voda looks at the creature in shock as its massive body is truly shown as it flies up into the air using four majestic wings.Its body looks similar to that of a serpent, but with heavenly golden scales mixing with a beautiful green body. It's four wings so large that they eclipse the moon. His head appears like a dragon with a mane of luscious red, blue, and orange. It lets out a terrifying roar that shakes the land and bends the sky to its will as the winds begin to pick up and storm clouds gather high above him. Rain hails down from the clouds as lightning strikes the kingdom, and tornadoes are starting to form both inside and outside the kingdom. Voda looks at the creature in awe of its presence and beauty, but quickly snaps out of it as his face twists with rage as he sees his kingdom being destroyed by this creature. Voda flaps his wings quickly, flying high into the sky, matching the sky serpent. He then sees the man who stands on the serpent's head while his body slowly disappears and his rage rises. "I said I'd show you a god! Here's one last f**k you from both me and Zam!" He shouts out with a cackle before disintegrating into nothing. Voda lets out a furious roar, summoning even more panthers than he's summoned before. The serpent lets out a roar again to surpass Voda's. Tornadoes quickly surround the serpent as the two begin their clash.

Folmon sees multiple panthers chasing towards him and is constantly clicking his tongue and expending magical and physical energy to fully boost his speed, so he can barely escape from the panthers. As he runs, he sees Pocu's eye and nose bleeding heavily. He panics and attempts to move even faster than he already was. 'That beast you summoned saved my life. My own honor and pride won't let you die so long as I breathe. My debt to you may never be paid, but right here and now, I can make sure you live.' Folmon thinks to himself as he holds her closer and continues to dash towards the black palace. Soon he arrives at the palace and sees Domo, who just arrived there as well. Domo appears injured, with large scratches all over his body. The two briefly look at each other before dashing into the palace. "Where is it?" "Left stairs, top floor, last door on the left." They enter the palace, dash over Kokhav's corpse, and start to run up the stairs.
Suddenly, the door breaks down, and a swarm of panthers starts to chase them down. A white aura surrounds Domo, and he turns that aura into a tiger that dashes towards the panthers. He gives Folmon hand signals. "It'll distract them." Folmon nods as they arrive on the top floor. They quickly shift to the left and dash towards the final door. They bust down the door and are met with the Kruha portal. They hear a yelping sound as they arrive at the portal. The two quickly enter the portal as they hear the panthers dashing towards them. A sudden frost hits the two as they enter the fourth world of Vetur. They quickly run into the depths of the frosty forest that surrounds them as panthers leap out of the portal, following them. Folmon sees the panthers still following them and makes a hand signal to Domo. "Take the girl."He tosses Pocu to Domo, who catches her, and nods as he continues to run. Folmon turns to the panthers and starts to click his tongue with a rhythm. He braces for the panthers as one of them pounces on him. The panther bites his shoulder, but Folmon finishes clicking his tongue, and a large burst of mana explodes from him. The mana takes the shape of a wyvern and lets out a piercing roar as it forms, slightly frightening the panthers. The wyvern has yellow scales all over its body, green eyes, and ginormous wings that are bigger than its own body. The wyvern is slightly larger than the panthers that surround them, but not as large as the trees that create the forest around them. The wyvern lets out breaths of flame at the panthers as he quickly starts to move towards them, with large, sweeping claws slicing the panthers. Folmon appears exhausted, with blood leaking from his mouth. He starts to meagerly crawl away, but one of the panthers goes around the wyvern, leaving its brothers to deal with the wyvern as it goes after Folmon. It nearly kills him, but Domo appears with his ethereal tiger claws and slices into the panther's body, knocking it away from Folmon. "D-" Folmon tries saying something, but Domo quickly picks him up and starts running while carrying him. "Pocu's at a tree." He says as he dashes away from the panthers and wyvern.

As they attempt to run, the single panther that Domo struck continues to follow them. Domo looks at the panther, annoyed, and leaves Folmon at a tree before turning to the panther. A white aura surrounds Domo as two ethereal tiger arms hover over his own. He leaps towards the panther, slashing at it with his claws as the panther leaps towards him with its own claws. They have a brief battle, but Domo quickly defeats it by summoning a tiger's head to bite down on its neck and tear off its head. Domo takes a moment to breathe before his aura leaves him and he falls to his knees. He stands up and walks back to Folmon, lifting him back up and running once again. Folmon doesn't say anything despite seeing Domo's extreme exhaustion. They then arrive at the same tree Pocu is in. Domo had left her on a branch high above the ground. He uses his claws to climb the tree up and leaves Folmon on a branch beside Pocu as he lays on another branch, exhausted.