Fallen Stars

Chapter 87:A Hero Named Darren

Jace-

I'm flung by Mersidion again. This time I crash into a thin tree, snapping it in half. I groan, feeling my entire back region become sore. I see ten of my duplicates battling Mersidion, striking him with tree branches or their own fists.

A Nitave scurries over to me, grabbing a thick piece of wood from the ground. I teleport behind him and snap his neck, then I whirl around and punch another Nitave in the face. He grunts and covers his face. I shove him backwards, watching as he lands at the feet of a Jaygrill. The monster doesn't notice him and accidentally kills him by stomping on his body.

The Jaygrill spots me and gallops over, it's yellow eyes staring at me. I grab a ray gun from the ground, then fire lasers at the monster's face. It squeals, an loud sound that hurts my ears, then charges at me even faster than before.

It opens it's mouth, producing a fireball and sending it at me. I teleport to avoid the ball of fire, then teleport behind the Jaygrill. Seeing that I'm no longer in it's view, the Jaygrill halts it's charge and glances around. It cries out when I punch the back of it's leg. I produce the familiar mist from my hands, and punch the Jaygrill.

The monster's body becomes white dust, and I grin with pride. A extremely loud sound reaches my ears. It resembles a stamped, but dozens of times worse. Pasetto taps my shoulder and I look at him. He doesn't say anything, instead he points a finger at something behind me.

There are over one million Nitaves rushing towards the battlefield. They are three hundred yards away, which means they will be here soon.

"Please tell me there isn't another batch of one million Nitaves." I say, trying to be hopeful that we will win this war. Killing Nitaves is one of my favorite things to do, but I don't want any of my friends to be injured by them. Plus I'm not invincible, I can be killed too.

"Damn," Pasetto says, studying the approaching legion of Nitaves."Are those...women?!" I zoom in on the Nitaves, another ability of mine, and discover that there are a few thousand women in the mob."And I'm pretty sure there are still around five-hundred, thousand Nitave soldiers to kill."

"There must be hundreds of thousands Nitave warriors also on the way. We need to defeat these ones, then win this war by killing Sharkutt." I tell him. Upon closer inspection of the advancing Nitave mob, I see Ocenia's clone in the front. Beside the clone is a man with blond hair and amber eyes. A tall teenaged boy with brown hair is behind the man, staring at the back of his head. The man runs with a emotionless look on his face, like he's a robot. I theorize that the man is being controlled by the boy. The man is obviously a Shiner, because I never seen a Human with amber eyes before. My dad told me that if someone was born a Shiner, they could have eye colors that Humans don't usually have. I was told that my dad's grandmother had yellowish-green eyes.

Mersidion manages to kill all of my clones, only gaining minor wounds in the process. He laughs as he watches the millions of soldiers dash towards us. I create fifty duplicates, getting half of them to fight Mersidion, and getting the other half to battle the mob. More enemies arrive. One-hundred feet long Nitave jets fly into view. There are dozens of them.

Nitave monsters are deployed from the jets, and Nitave warriors too. Nitave tanks appear in the distance, hundreds of them. Fifty more evil Shiners drop from the sky and land on the ground, not taking any damage at all.

"Holy sh-" I begin to say, but I'm interrupted as the first bomb explodes.

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Alan-

We arrive in a vast basin of water. The water is almost perfectly clean with no sign of contamination. The beautiful moon is in the reflection, causing me to gawk at it. The entire basin is surrounded by a circle of trees. We must have arrived at the jungle, the only thing separating us from Sharkutt's city.