Book 4 | Agent 34 and the Last Gem

Chapter 77 | The Gem

Avalon marched up the stairs, hearing the clashing of blades upon each other. He heard Malío's ear deafening shriek from the main lobby area and heard a deep and tired voice shout, "This is never going to end! Braunick locked us in here and Agent 34 disappeared!"

The God of Good nearly tripped over himself as he entered the room. Malío stopped and spotted him, mouth gaping. "How you escape?"

Avalon raised his hand in front of his face and transformed it into a fist. A smile creeped upon his face as he ran at the God of Evil and threw a punch straight into his chest, sending him staggering back a bit. That was something he had owed him for a long time.

All of the Destigems moved out of the way as the two Gods began to engage in combat. Avalon held out his hand and a blue sword appeared in it, Malío doing the same with a black sword.

Blows were exchanged between the two, Malío emitting another ear piercing shriek before retracting backwards a bit. He extended his arm towards the God of Good, a ray of darkness shooting out of it and at him. Avalon dodged it quickly by running away from it, ushering the Destigems to do the same if it ever came towards them.

Malío pulled the beam of darkness away and shrieked again before coming at him with fists that were covered in dark energy. To the Destigems, the God of Evil's fighting style suddenly seemed very similar to someone else's they knew.

The pair went on battling, the Destigems simply watching in hopes that Avalon would prevail.

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Braunick slammed Agent 34 against the wall, dropping him as he did. He had not found the gem within his mind and was convinced that he was hiding it under some enchantment.

"Give me the gem!" Braunick shouted, pure anger driven into his voice.

"I don't have it," Agent 34 croaked. "Please, listen to me,"

"Give me the gem," The king told him. He grabbed his brother again and slammed his head against the stone floor with such force that made his ears begin to ring and bleed.

"I don't—have it–!" the elf said, blood rushing down his face. "Brother,"

"Liar!" Braunick's cries rang through the throne room, echoing into Agent 34's ears and implanting his words upon his thoughts. Again, the king grabbed ahold of his brother and threw him straight up in the air. Before he hit the ground, he flew up to the height his twin was at and slammed a fist straight into his chest, sending him flying through the air and colliding with another wall.

"I'll give you one last chance," Braunick told him, flying over to him ominously. A black fireball rested in his open palm, "Hand over the gem and I might let you live as my loyal servant,"

A bright white light appeared in the elf's vision, slowly glowing brighter until it engulfed his vision. Braunick's words seemed to disappear as Agent 34's eyes shut and unconsciousness engulfed him.

"Agent 34," a calming voice awoke him. "Agent 34,"

The elf awoke and spotted Fáolar standing before him. They were no longer in his brother's throne room, and were now in a flat landscape that was pure white. It was endless and the ground was white, the sky was white, and there seemed to be no end to the white.

"Fáolar?" the elf croaked, nearly leaping up in joy.

"Agent 34, this is a simulated reality—I created this as a message to you using a spell I created–little did you know, I'd been dabbling in magic for a bit and made some very advanced things that none of the Zena had no knowledge of. My work is most likely destroyed, as the Zena most likely fell in the battle," the old man grunted, walking back a bit. "This is a message within a dream—you will remember all of this when you awake, which the spell will awake you for me, but my words are not real. They are prerecorded. If you are receiving this message, this means you are in dire need of the gem. Therefore, it shall be granted to you in the form of its energy. No physical gem will be given to you. It can alert Braunick that you received it and he will automatically remove it. I enhanced this gem to make it ten times stronger, but it is still not as strong as all of the gems that Lord Braunick possesses. You can use a spell that I created to temporarily stun him and enter his mind and extract one of his gems. Keep doing this until all of them are gone. You can do this, 34. When you awake, no time will have passed, but your wounds shall be healed. Good luck,"

"But what about the spell?" Agent 34 asked quickly. Dreariness overcame him in the dream and he fell asleep. The whiteness disappeared and Braunick's evil voice soon came to his ear's once again.

"Wake up! I'm not done with you!" Braunick yelled.

All of Agent 34's aching body seemed to be perfectly fine now–the blood stopped rushing, but the current blood covering his body stayed. He felt a familiar yet stronger power flowing through his veins once again. He had the power of the gem.

Then, words for a spell that Fáolar created popped into his mind: hwuendlio freosan.