2: Battle Of The Realm.

2:- Battle Of The Realm.

This has never happened before, an Incendian army and a Glacilian army fighting together in the Frost Fire, side by side, and not against one another. Streams of flames and sparkles of ice and roars of darkness and shadow flooded the valley as yeti, salamanders and shadowers kill, and get killed.

At the heat of the battle, Inferno, on his fiery phoenix, took to the skies, and with raging fire from his hand and vitarma, he burnt a lot of the horrid flying monsters and beast, headed towards the Dark Queen herself, Zella. Her small lips bent in a smile as she saw him coming. With her pointer, she drew a ring of shadow in the air and flicked it at Inferno, the ring expanded as it sped through the air and locked itself around the phoenix's neck. She, then, began to fold her fingers into a fist, slowly, tightening the ring of shadow, strangling the mystic bird. Inferno lost balance as the phoenix struggled to breathe, he fell off the saddle.

Firn, atop his snow-lynx which roared sprays of freezing ice at any approaching beast, noticed Inferno falling. With an upward swing of his arm, ice from the Glacier Line rose, high and flat like a slide up to the sky and caught falling Inferno and he slid safely to the ground beside Firn.

"You just saved mah life... Why?" Inferno asked, perplexed by his action.

"Why? Are you proposing I let you expire and face a swarm of dark monsters all by myself?" Firn replied, standing on his critter, freeing arrow after arrow at anything dark and scary.

"You're a good salamander, Inferno. Same as all your predecessors. You are just blinded by your jealousy for the Ice Tribe. But I hope as the real enemy as risen, your eyes shall be opened."

Inferno tossed an explosive fireball at an attacking shadow beast. "Until today," he said thoughtfully, "our tribes didn't know we had a common enemy."

"And will the enemy of my enemy- be my friend?" Firn rapidly released rain of ice arrows, non-stop.

"We have been at each other's throats since dah Ice Age." Inferno threw his sword at Firn who instinctively ducked and the fiery blade passed over him and struck a beast preparing a sneak attack.

"A little heads-up next time?" Firn eyed Inferno who just shrugged. With ****** assistance from his tail, Inferno leapt over Firn and kicked the sword further into the beast's chest, reducing it to nothing but a waft of shadow. A winged monster noticed Inferno's distracted state and dived for the kill but died instead, killed by arrows from Firn's bow.

"The birth of the yeti isn't our fault... Maybe we should come to a common understanding- for the good of all?" Firn dismounted his lynx, whispered orders into its ear and it charged out into battle. Firn walked up to Inferno, "Let's form an alignment," he said.

"An alignment, you say? A battleground is no place for such formal event."

"Then, shall we meet again after this to formalize our bond?"

"Only if we make it out alive." Inferno smiled in response.

The two Sovereigns shook arms in agreement, and like newly found brothers, they charged into battle.

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It isn't just the Frost Fire Valley that suffers the attack of the dreadful Oscurian army. Whilst their battle commenced, some happened in the other tribes. By their blessed power of precognition, the Espritians had foreseen the attacks and put up a strong defence mechanism to hide the entire tribe, making it impenetrable and invisible, and preventing the dark creatures from finding or getting into or even near the tribe. The victory was the quickest for the Oscurian at Aria because they were bounded by their non-violent nature and culture, the Aria Sovereign gave up their tribe's elemental gem when, of course, the Oscurian Grand Guerrilla of the Wind fleet couldn't listen to reason and slew the Arian Heir in the presence of the entire court.

In Great Waters, at Oceania, aquatic adaptable Oscurian beasts raided the city, but the undines fought back hard to protect their tribe and the shadowers were no match for their weapons - but Zella knew that. As planned, the Oscurian Grand Guerrilla of the Water fleet released a dark pollutant in the waters, removing the oxygen from therein. It spread so quickly and the impossible happened, undines began to drown in their element, suffocating from lack of oxygen to respire, many began to die. Some tried to escape to the shores but their gills would never feel the same. To stop the pollutant from sucking all life underwater, the Oceania Sovereigness had no choice but to surrender their elemental gem. The Oscurian held up his end of the bargain and recollected the pollutant, but the Great Waters would never be the same again.

Battle was at its fiercest at Terrai as the gnomes, disputing their small size, crushed and squashed the attacks horrid monsters with so much ease and pleasure. They had both individual strength and strength in numbers that the Oscurians could not contend with- but Zella knew that. Ordered by the Oscurian Grand Guerrilla of the Earth fleet, the monster began to throw down black pots from their flying humongous bats into the canyon and as the pots landed, they shattered, releasing frightful evil spirits trapped within, and these evil spirits began to possess the Terrian gnomes. The possessed gnomes' eyes turned all black and they began to attack their fellow tribe people and destroy with stronger powers because of the evil fuelling them. The other gnomes could not bring themselves to slay their kind, but the possessed gnomes did not hesitate to kill any living being it sights. It was a massacre. The Oscurian beast laughed horridly as chaos filled the Terrian canyon. To prevent more deaths, the Terrian Sovereign shamefully gave up their elemental gem to end the slaughter. And at the sound of an Oscurian beast's horn, the evil spirits left the bodies they possessed, leaving them paralyzed, and floated up into a bigger pot under the arm of the Dark Grand Guerrilla.

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The Ice and Fire Sovereignesses worry deeply for their Sovereign as the noise of the battle become aggravating and never-ending Each in their castles, took comfort in rocking their babies to sleep. Simultaneously, more castle guards suddenly flooded the throne housing them and their child and surrounded all sides of the room to protect them.

"Wha' is dah meaning of this?!" Agrimitra demanded as the castle guards took their positions.

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"What is going on?" White asked, also, in her wide.

"We're sorry for the inconveniences, my Sovereigness. It is of the utmost importance that you are kept safe and protected." The Chief of the Castle Guards replied to her.

"Utmost importance...?"

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"... Wha' has happened on dah battlefield?" Agrimitra questioned her own Chief of Castle Guards.

"It's an Oscurian invasion, Sovereigness," the Chief answered.

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"Oscurians? What of the Sovereign of Incendia?" White enquired.

"It appears that the Incendian army seems to have come to a ceasefire and have joined forces with our army to battle off the dark ones." The yeti Chief explained.

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"Yah sayin' there's a collaboration...?" Agrimitra started.

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"... Between Fire and Ice?" White ended.

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"This is bad." Both said in unison, apart in their different castles.

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Down in the Valley between the Fire and Ice mountains, the battle is intensifying. Many had been vanquished on all sides but the battle holds strong. Suddenly, squeaks of Oscurian monster bats are heard in the sky, along with horns and drums. Firn and Inferno look up and sees damnation in form of an Oscurian calvary. Zella looks up, smiles as she sees victory.

"Well done, my children!" Zella chuckled menacingly as her Grand Guerrillas approached with their troops, and waved their bounty for their Mistress to see.

"Yes! To me, bring them." She ordered, raising atop her bat.

Her Grand Guerrillas flew towards her, dropping the gems in their possession before her, hanging in midair. She looked at the colourful gems before her and noticed there was one less.

"I see in possessing the Gray Matter, you failed," she sternly looked at the Grand Guerrilla she assigned to Espritia.

The Oscurian general hung its head in fear and trembling.

"Calm yourself, beauty. Acquire it later, we will, hm?" She spoke sweetly, and it raised its head again.

In that second, her dark aura ignited and out if it solidified into multiple tentacle-like spears and impaled the beast of a failure, deleting him from existence.

"And by 'we', I do not mean 'you'..." She added as it faded.

Her shadowy aura subsided. She reached for the pronounced pendant on the necklace around her neck and plucked it: it was a solid black crescent encased in golden wirings. She, then, separated the crescent from the decorative - the dark elemental gem, Black Night. It floated off her hand and joined the collection of similarly shaped colourful elemental gems in front of her.

These elemental gems are the known source of elemental abilities and the very source of their existence, and each tribe as to itself its own; Snow White to the yeti, Red Hot to the salamanders, Deep Blue Sea to the undines, Green Land to the gnomes, Sky Blue to the sylphs, Gray Matter to the dwarfs, and Black Night to the shadowers.

These gems weren't all separate at the beginning, they are all each a piece of a whole, a whole orb called the Kügel, the Elemental Orb, which is the powers of all elementals. Some say the first elementals formed the Kügel, another says the Kügel formed the first elementals, but whichever way it was, it was all-powerful It can create and eliminate an elemental, it was a weapon with a powerful beam of energy known as the Gestrïn Light. The Kügel, as a whole, could make one omini-elemental with unlimited magick powers, thus leading to its splitting, for in the wrong hands- it will bring destruction.

And now, Zella possesses four of seven quarter gems of the Kügel. The quarter gems began to spin in a circular pattern as Zella began the joining ritual. Firn and Inferno saw this and they were utterly surprised how she, a child, acquired four of the gems. How did she even know about the ancient artefact?

"Impossible!" Inferno exclaimed at the shocking sight.

"She possesses four-quarter gems?!" Firn wasted no time, he aimed three arrows at Zella, then fired. Inferno threw several lava balls to accompany them, but as they got to an arm's length, they dispersed to nothingness, leaving her unscathed.

Zella slid her hand, enveloped with her darkness, in the air, slowly, from left to right, fingers wide apart as she formed her vitarma: a shadowy black sceptre. With the vitarma present, the Deep Blue Sea, Green Land, Sky Blue, and Black Night magnetized each other, forming more than half of the Kügel, after that, she took it and slap it in her sceptre. The incomplete Elemental Orb began to glow in the colour it was made of, its glow then expanded to the whole sceptre, and then to Zella's whole body, and she mourned softly, eyes closed, as she felt it fill her up with power. She smiled.

"To perfection, close," she said as she stopped glowing and opened her eyes: her left eye remained it's natural black, while her right eye was a colour spiral wheel of grey, green, light and dark blue and black.

"Now over, this battle is" She roared, raising her Kügel powered vitarma to the skies and it began to blacken, unruly winds blew as bolts of lightning of different colours flashed, followed by deafening thunders that shook the ground. The incomplete Kügel shone brightly in its lights and she pointed the sceptre downwards to the valley below.

"******Destroy******!" She roared demonically and a bright multi-coloured energy beam and sparks of the Gestrïn Light shot down to the yeti, salamanders, and even shadowers all the same within its destructive range we're exterminated.

Zella roared with evil laughter, "******Splendid******!" She guffawed amid the flashes of lightning and thunders.

Firn and Inferno, lucky to have evaded the Gestrïn blast, were extremely terrified, as well as surprised. No one has witnessed the power of the Kügel, for millions of centuries, let alone use it. The Sovereigns could feel the fear filling the Valley as the surviving lot scurry about, fighting off the shadowers.

This child, Zella, the Evil child of Darkness and Queen of Death and Fear hold four-quarter gems of the Kügel.

What will happen if she gets it all...?

To Be Continued in the next Episode 🔥

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