Dusk
Author: S.Betelgeuse
last update2025-04-17 18:14:39

The screams of people in fear and agony fill the air, dragons are seen decimating the place, chaos and destruction is seen everywhere in a scene that looks like it used to be a city of nobles before destruction came upon it.

A little girl not over the age of seven with bruises all over her body is running holding a child in white linen, running like her life depended on it.

"She's over here!" a male's voice is heard sounding an alert to his comrades as the little girl runs through an alley to meet a dead end.

"For a little child of a peasant such as yourself you have proven to be quite a bone up the ass." A tall good looking man without a top revealing his nice muscular figure steps forward, speaking to the young child, as he approaches her he says

"The king and Queen are both dead, hand over the child and I shall let you live and turn you into the finest general this land will ever see."

The young child with her fierce eyes filled with tears stands there holding the baby afraid, but not in fear of her life but in fear of not being able to protect the one she has been tasked to protect.

The man gets closer and as he tries to touch her the loud voice of a female is heard from above.

"Ducallion!"

And almost as it was heard a huge flair of fire rains down upon the people in the alley behind Ducallion, the man who was approaching the young child.

Ducallion looks behind and everyone behind him had turned to crisps, he looks up with a glare as he utters "Gaia!"

He stares at the floating figure of a lady having glowing eyes burning with anger, her arms outstretched sideways and her hands flaming with multiple colours of fire, as Ducallion is looking up he suddenly feel a heavy aura behind him at where the young child was standing, he tries to turn back but before he could turn completely to look at the figure behind him, his left cheek is greeted with a heavy punch that sends him flying some blocks away.

Gaia comes down to meet the young child.

"You have done well" she places her right hand on the little childs head and all her bruises seem to miraculously heal.

"Now go! Leave this place to us." Gaia tell the little girl.

The tears which had filled the young childs eyes for sometime now, began to flow down her cheeks.

"We are extremely grateful for what you have done little one, we selfishly ask that you continue to look after that little one in your arms" the male figure that had sent Ducallion flying said.

"Yes... my King", the little child manages to utter realizing this might be the last time she sees this two magnificent people, her King and Queen who had been weakened due to some poison, she turns around still teary, she brings out a purple crystal from the clothing used to wrap the baby, she breaks it and a portal appears and swallows her up.

Gaia turns to face the King, smiles and then kiss him.

"Lets go Derek." She says.

Derek smiles and they both turn around towards the direction Ducallion was sent flying, from the background Ducallion emerges.

"I should have known such little poison wouldn't be enough to end the lives of the oh so great King and Queen." Ducallion says as he dusts some rubbles off his body.

"I didn't think You'd feed us the poison of the two most poisonous creatures brother, all for what!? Look around you brother is this what you want? Is this how you want to rule? Is this all worth it? Is this how you want to be remembered in history?" Derek questions in disappointment.

"Hahaha… history is only written by the victors my dear brother, and tonight I, will be the victor!" Ducallion states.

He yells out as he lifts his arms up and we see four beings who seem to be on his side appear along side alot of people most of them looking eager to kill.

"Kill them!"

A huge battle ensues lasting 32 hours, devastating the land as big as a country, bringing everything down to ruins.

The soil now the colour red soaked with blood.

As all sounds come to a slow stop we see death all over.

The King and his Queen gasping, the King bleeding, missing one arm with one knee on the ground and the Queen bent over with one hand leaning on the King still trying to remain upright standing.

Ducallion comes towards them also bleeding with scars all over his body missing one eye, everyone aside this three that participated in this battle were killed by this two, the King and his Queen.

"Such power Is truly terrifying" Ducallion comments as he walks towards the two limping a little.

“I am supposed to be the fourth strongest in this Kingdom and the fifth strongest on this Planet and yet, I and five other Supreme Peaks from the other races, alongside fifty thousand plus Soldiers none being below the level of S-rank and yet we still could'nt bring you both down…” He pauses as he observes them a little.

“Well, it doesn't look like you are gonna survive this."

He looks at Gaia.

"Gaia, submit to me now and I'll spare your life, Derek was never the one for you, you know I've always been the one for you why do you keep denying it."

Gaia smiles "Do you want to know my answer?" She asks.

She turns to Derek, squats a little, holds Derek's face.

"I love you my King" she kisses him passionately right in front of Ducallion who is fuming with anger.

Derek smiles.

"I love you too my Queen, and I'm sorry"

With a smile on his face, a cracking sound is heard, Gaia looks down at where the sound comes from and sees Derek holding a broking purple crystal, with a panicked look she tries to quickly grab unto Derek but he pushes her and the portal opens up and swallows her as she shouts out to Derek.

“Dereeeek!!!!”

Ducallion slaps his forehead with annoyance, "Hahahaha… of course the oh so great king would have had a a backup plan, I should have expected so, after all you have always outsmarted me since we were kids."

Derek manages to get up and starts walking towards Ducallion and with a shaky voice he says.

"No Ducallion you won this time, I am disgusted at your betrayal and you will definitely pay for this someday but for now you won, I'm proud of you BROTHER."

He hugs Ducallion as if resting on him, a single tear drops Ducallions left eye, he closes his eyes as he feels the fading heart beat of his brother who is resting on him, Derek breathes his last breath.

Ducallion places Dereks body on the floor.

" In the end you just couldn't bring yourself to kill me huh? Even with all this power you were still such a coward" he clenches his fist and teeth as he kneels beside his brother's lifeless body.

" Goodbye Brother".

A chilly night in the winter at the west coast of Ireland, Galway at 2am, a drunk young couple singing while driving home at high speed in an old Honda Civic suddenly hits something which sends the lady flying through the wind shield onto the highway, but rather than she being injured, the path on the tarred road upon which she fell is damaged, the man comes out from the bashed vehicle asking if his wife AERIEL is okay.

"I'm okay OLIVER" she says while staggering trying to stand up, they both move to the point of impact and are both shocked to see a floating baby with golden hair protected by a transparent plasma shield.

“Huh?..”

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