Awaken Book 2: Hell's Rejuvenation

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"Stupid monkey! Stand...STILL." Christi yells as she progressively gets angrier and angrier from Sim dodging her attacks. Sim leaps and throws dust in her eyes, she becomes blind as she randomly shoots beams all around her. Thomas leaps over her with his enlarged Titan fist and lands his fist on top of her and lands next to Sim, Sim smiles and pats his back. "My lad, Hahahaha." He laughs as Thomas does as well. Salo hits the ground hard, Hell's Gate smiles as he adjusts the shield. Through the smoke, Christi is nowhere to be found, "No matter we have a bigger threat at hand." Sim says as he helps up Salo and they all face Hell's Gate. He smirks as his eyes glare red, "Bigger threat is correct.." He says as suddenly half his body is covered with ice, everyone looks shocked as Thomas' mother slowly emerges out of the ice and appears to have a dagger in her hand. She immediately proceeds to stab him as he quickly grabs her wrist and makes her drop the dagger. "Crap..." She says as he nods. He stabs her with the same dagger she had in her hand, she spits out some blood as he body seems to shift to a weak tone in her muscles. "A soul sealer huh...I didn't know you had it in you." He laughs as she looks at her son, slowly balling his fist. "I'll always be with you.." She says as her arms dangle limp, motionless. Thomas drops to his knee, beginning to cry as he sees the death of his mother over and over again, regretting not being there and not asking all the questions in his mind to ask her while she was alive. He leaps him as he breaks out from the ice trap and dodges Thomas charging in where he was at. As soon as he lands, the energy around him makes large, sharp ice spikes pop out of the ground. "HELL'S GATE!!!!" He yells as a blade strikes from into his back and comes out his left lung with a chain from high in the air. Thomas grabs the chain, pulls it hard, Hell's Gate flies out of the ground, and he pulls him towards him. "Brute strength...I shouldn't think otherwise." He says as he regains his balance and tosses a disk like weapon towards Thomas. He dodges it as he doesn't see Hell's Gate in front of him and the chain yanks behind him, bringing him forward in light speed. Thomas rips the chain out his chest and wraps it around his wrist, tugs Hell's Gate as Sim swings his pole that just misses over his head. He rolls out of harm's way, flips back on his feet, Salo emerges in front and Hell's Gate dodges his kick. "Fight all you want. I won't die here, the plan must continue." He says to Salo as Salo punches him in the face and he steps back. "He seems to be stalling, for what I don't know, but we need to continue the onslaught.." Salo says as the team regroups around Thomas and Salo heals him. "You alright, boy?" He asks as he completely heals him and pats his back. He doesn't reply, he nods as he stands up tall with a cold air of his breath flows out of his mouth; his hands and feet give off a similar ovation. "Well then." He says as he takes out a palm shaped bottle with purple mixed with red swirling liquid and breaks it as he makes a fist around it. Immediately, his body heals up from all wounds prior, he grows a couple feet, and he illuminates heat radiating off this body. "Guess I'm out of options." He says as Thomas and him exchange in a heated standoff.

Whitmore feels a dark presence nearby as he looks up, he and everyone else sees a huge dark ball high in the sky. He sees more closely and sees BenKei, Hiro, Donovan, and Rana all trying to stop it from crashing to the ground, most definitely would destroy the earth and everyone on it. "You guys stay here." He says as he bolts towards them. He sees Arc being the one who has sent the ball as the group is underneath it, trying to stop it. "I have an idea. Hiro. You try to make your lightning go through the ball and hit its core. BenKei, you and I blast the sides to create an opening..." Whitmore lands on Hiro's head as Donovan lands next to him. "So Rana and I charge through the opening and charge him head on? That may work!" He says as the plan Whitmore says takes place. The lightning strikes the core, making a tear as BenKei's and Whitmore's blasts make it wider and an opening is made. "Go!" Donovan says as Rana makes a green field around them both and they both almost effortlessly go through. The dark energy makes the fields crack little by little as they make it to the other side, "What?!?" Arc yells in shock as the fields break off them both. Rana and Donovan delivers a huge punch into his face as he loses control of his attack; suddenly the tide begins to shift on the heroes' side. They fly far from his reach as the energy ball shifts from all of them pushing it back, he sees the ball approach under his nose and he stops it with both his hands, struggling to keep it from swallowing him. "No....NO....IMPOSSIBLE....YOU PATHETIC LITTLE..." He screams as the ball inch by inch swallows him up and the ball flies outside the earth's atmosphere and a huge explosion is seen from all around half of the world.
Kain yells and falls over as a strange symbol on his back appears. "What's wrong with him?!" Ava says as he yells over and over again. "Let me see him." Donovan says as the teams rejoin together. "Does he need healing?" Hiro asks as he summons his staff. "No, this is a demon's tongue....it means....Retreat to...?" Donovan says as BenKei and Rana shrug their shoulders and laugh as they both don't know. "Retreat to what?" Hiro says as he kneels to see it closely. "I'm assuming back to Hell's Gate.." Hiro says as he stands up and taps the symbol and it slowly climbs up his hand to be on his forearm. "We don't know what on the other side, the receiving end of this...be ready." Hiro says as he initiates the symbol's cadence. They all teleport away along with Hiro in seconds.