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As Nari’s titan collapsed - the echo of the two titans stunned the spectators, in the corner of his eye, Jim saw Claire hold her hand up to her mouth.
His legs felt although they were melted to the ground but solid as steel, his rib cage pulsating with pain. The numbness overwhelmed him, the tilted and blurred sights of the battle left him left his heart rapidly beating in his ribcage-making everything feel like its burning-clenching his teeth-he swerved to Douxie - his face was wan-with sweat trickling down his face, his jaw seemingly detached in a desperate scream before Jim realised he is screaming - no wailing almost animal-like before he was stumbling down the hillside. His face frozen in a haunted look - numbness felt like a normal presence in his bones.
His arm-stuck in a holding position just ahead of him-reaching for something that just disappeared. He clicked his jaw but the words clogged in his mouth, he noticed the others talking - trying - to plan ahead now that Nari and Skreal are gone…Bellroc-get to bellroc-but He wasn’t feeling anything - it - this felt foreign - alien.
His breath quickened. He shouldn’t feel this way-he doesn’t know Nari like Douxie does nor does he even begin to even forgive Skreal’s maniacal giggle after stricker died-the way he stared at him nerved him to no end.
But-why was he acting like this?
He should be moving-acting-trying to help but he’s stuck literally! He frowns, grunting he stumbled before picking up paces-mucking about in this sea of emotions, metaphorical chains stiffening his movement.
He slid down the hill-swerving his head to Douxie-now he was closing the gap-getting closer until he felt a pound on his head-stad-the inability to move returned.
He tripped-swallowing a good amount of grass ( he’s sure ) as he slid on the ground-he groaned from the strain on his ribcage-beore slowly getting up, he looked above himself-he gasped.
Looking up he saw camelot-falling-debris and its remaining structure on fire, a boom resounded across the ruins-dread bubbled in his stomach.
“ Mom. “
He swirled towards the hill-crawling up-short of breath on the ground.
“ Claire! “ he cried - swerving towards the shadowmancer “ On it! “ She grunted - Shit, the portal! - “ Just try and get us close, don't strain yourself! "
Desperation and fear for Claire and - and mom tore him inside-mixing inside of his stomach like a very disgusting smoothie. Not long until a shadow portal formed ahead of him, he rushed in alongside Aja, Claire and Toby - Eli and Steve shouted out that they were going to deal with excalibur-that would open another can of worms in his head.He mentally cursed himself - focus! He stumbled out of the portal before running over to the ruins of the new-camelot, he heaved with the strain on his broken ribcage, before gawking and staring at the rubble - mom!
Her brunette hair stood out from the rubble as he strides forward-he felt a glowing hand grabbing his shoulder but he brushed it off -chanting only one thing mom, moms injured, she is going to survive, please do, mom please be alright-please just have minor wounds please!
What meets him when he gets to the rubble is cold eyes, ice-cold feeling washes over him, making him drop to his knees, his eyes blurring - “mom?” he whimpered-his body shaking before sobs shook out of him.
There crushed between the rubble is the bloodied mess of his mom, it was guresome-her blood decorates the rubble-her intestines string underneath, but her lower half is crushed by what used to be a castle wall-her face permanently carved in pain, but her eyes speak of no live existing - scrunched but clear-her head is cracked open leaving half of her face crimson red.
“ mom…mom.. “ he sobs, his hands coming up to swipe them-but stuck as the numbness in his bones showered his emotions. “ strickler-nomura-blinky, and-and now-you, mom… “ he wails before a glowing hand ghosts over his shoulder, hesitantly looks over to the face of a grave Aja.
“ Jim… Claire she- “ Aja starts, unsure - but it's enough to make him flinch and swerve aggressively to where he last remembers Claire, there Toby is holding her up- but it's clear she's unconscious, “ we need to regroup “
Her voice-Her words stuck him, making him flinch-it speaks of urgency but Jim can’t will himself to move-fear, inhaling he chants inside his head-fear is but the precursor to valor-to strive and triumph in the face of fear is what it means to be a hero.
“ don’t think, become “ he mutters.
Douxie couldn’t breathe - Nari… “ NARI! “ he yelped before skidding down the hill “ please please be okay… “ he chucked parts of the rubble out of the way until he reached where the central part of the titan, nari layed on the rubble - her face half covered in ice, and it was growing steadily-making it a twisted artpiece of death.
A sob was ripped out of his throat involuntarily, the world suddenly just condensed to the both of them before he stumbled, sorrow filled his heart as he crouched before nari, his vision blurring-his breath coming in short bursts
“ no no no - not you too nari.. “ he sobbed to the only person he thought of as his sister - family. “ Merlin - a-archie please - not..not you. Please “ he wailed - tears sliding down his face, before he could sweep them off a green but frosted hand did so for him.
“ oh, douxie-your heart bleeds for me, but I must go - my time has ended, “ she began, her voice scratchy, her hand caressing his cheek in a loving manner.
“ no-no your time is not over nari “ he pleaded, wishing for her to stay despiste inside himself he knew it was over-agony piercing his skin, making him hissing in pain, he went to grab nari’s hand settling on his cheek-latching onto it like a life-line- he stared at her face, silent tears streaked her cheeks but she still had a smile on her face.
“ it is, my little flower “ wha- “ but i don’t have much time-neither do you, you must defeat belloc, make life anew - become life as a whole “ a sharp whimper fell from her lips, making her shiver - the cracks across her face spread to her leftover eye, coating it with rime-a frosty hair-like structure streaks across her iris.
“ I-I don't understand- I -but - your life your-your everything of life, there cannot be life without you “ disbelief coloured his voice, overshadowing his grief for a split moment before he felt harsh sting that-against his will, is familiar to him - a sting of grief that never never gets easier.
“ You will understand soon, now I must go, this will be my last gift to you - a way for you to flourish, “ Nari smiled-but is evident in her voice, “ I give you, endrborinn- a way to start over, but most importantly a way to renew what has been dead for millennium's - the Life arcanum “
A stone emerges from within her chest-cascading the stone is a rich-royale blue mixing with golden hues and violet shades, making it almost ethereal-and that is a lot, coming from a traveler and merchant of the past centuries.
“ Nari, what-what’s-what are you going to do? “ Douxie urges Nari, in response she shakes her head-before shakingly releasing her hand.
Nari presses a hand to his chest-a glow candescents from it-eerily glowing green-teal-white and then a golden with sparkles of purple before going pure black, without prior context to this heart wrenching end, he would say it was a beautiful display, emotions flowering her hands in different flower species-unidentifiable beautiful.
The words bounce in his head-endrborinn? Life arcanum? The last he'd heard of them was endrborinn-but that was from nari’s beginning wasn’t it?
“ I-I nari, what-what do you mean, endrborinn-Life arcanum? But-but that's not possible, their myths-they surely cannot be true! “ He blurted out, feeling like the moppet head from 900 years ago, lost and confused and a not-so-helpful person that has the answers-sadness pangs before regretting feeling that way towards nari-nari who’s on her deathbed.
“ You are now one-one with us, no-long are you just douxie “
Douxie sobs as he realizes that Nari's disappearing, and quickly too - he reaches towards her face but it's nothing but little sparkles of energy, fading into the very surroundings glistening them with a golden-green glow.
That breaks Douxie's self-reservations, his soft sobbing turns to absolute wailing, tears pour down his face, unconsciously pooling around him and the confined area, his face swirling with bright colours underneath his skin, before it contorts into a sullen-like features-an a animal-like growl rips from his throat.
Krel realises-once he ran away from the group with his serrator-skidding to a stop once on the ice titan -that he severely underestimated how difficult it would be to balance on moving ice-he was quickly knocked down when the Life Titan collided with the Ice titan.
He slipped, landing harshly on his back-even on his -not so welcome-place on the ground. He saw nari’s face contorted with pain, tears spilling from her cheeks before the ice titan stumbled-it drew a gasp from the primordial god, he then used his other arm to pierce the life titan-making nari’s face filled with a wide-eyed expression, before withering into other emotions gone too fast to truly see their meaning.
He gets up on his legs before stumbling as the Ice titan crumbles beneath his feet, he sharply gasps-the ice closing in to him faster than he can get his serrator out-he quickly gets covered in rubble.
He blinks back into consciousness, feeling as though he just got a delsons of training back-to-back with varvatos. He looks back to the ice covering both his legs just below the waist, sparing of him of probable core reversion, he winces as pain shoots up from his leg-grunting he wiggles it-although-selkos and gaylen-it hurts, the pain bleeding in his hologram, turning it red, he cried as a shift in the ice sending a chafe of short pain but then bright and painful sensation up his spine.
A scream rips out of his mouth, straining his already strained consciousness, he heaves in air-a trait he picked up from being in his human transduction for long periods of time, he blinks ahead of himself when he hears grunting.
Skreal shuffling out of what must be where he crashed, his body covered in cracks and sickly green-gooey black melting into his skin showing his-muscles? Or whatever the dark violet mass is…when he locked eyes with Krel-he truly felt a shiver run up his spine.
It feels like a predator, but something shifts, somber-open and the pressure that was there lifted giving him whiplash of immense pain he categorises to investigate later.
“ I truly am sorry-to nari, and to the skys-my aurora borealis that even though dimmied is still beautiful, and to my naivety-I blindly followed my sibling, a fool i was, to believe this emptiness-this void could be healed, it was never us that need to be healed with time no-nothing can heal this void inflicted upon us. It was what was prophesied trillions ago, our magic cannot be held by those who are not worthy, I pondered while alone who was worthy-a foolish decision truly as now I realise what I need is not a successor that comes from humanity or trolls or another being on this planet, “
Skreal weakly began, sickness corroding his face like cobwebs, melting his icy-blue skin.
“ It would be one without any limitations-one free of burden of pre-set mind of this world-of this cosmos, I’ve seen your inventions, beautiful-a brilliance I noticed imminently-as a inventor mysel-” he cuts himself off, coughing “ -myself, you truly are out of this world “ his face-now halved the other half, melted and corroding the grass underneath the both of us, is smirking with his own joke.
This-normalcy despite us passing closer towards death-core reversion for himself, it sparks a scoff from him, a weak laugh comes from Skreals throat-before he weakly reaches his hand towards me.
“ you have a astute personality-most importantly a innocence of inventing I haven’t seen in eons, creativity and freedom I now lack, darked by the ages-but you” he looks me in my eyes, kindness though with pain and weariness cloud it, shine to his core-he looks different to how he was mere horvaths ago.
“ You have it in doves, you are worthy of the Ice arcanum-and the kardiá stous titánes, I pray that you can forgive. “
Before Krel could even form a sentence, Skreal’s hand touched my shoulder, sending a blinding white burn of pain across his back, spearing his hologram with colours.
The shifting of his colours were the only thing grounding Krel-it shifted from dark navy blue-to azure-baby blue-icy blue alike skreal-to white-to wheat-gold-black-to patchy black with light pink, aegean-sky blue-forest green-to milky white blending into his consciousness before everything goes black.
Krel consciousness slowly comes back to him , slowly shifting not realizing that when he shifted- the ice shifted, he propelled upwards towards the sun peering from the sky, the ice and frost shifting behind him, something about this is comforting , it feels like-home, the ice shift from icy-blue to a deep cyan shifting with milky-white winds swirling around.
His hand outstretched as he sees the stars-a profound realisation hit him-he is the sky-the stars-the shift and the cosmos but most importantly-he is free.
Douxie struts over to the core-his rage boiling underneath him, disregarding the decay of the grass and any near-by life.
He feels vines grapple onto his spine-grunting he lifts himself up bending the Life Titan, shifting from quadrupedal to bipedal, the water shifting to swim under him with his tears, he starts to stride over to arcadia, moving faster and faster with each step.
The boiling-rage continues to grow with each step, before it falters with a sharp burn coming from his left leg, he searches and finds the source to be varvatos and aaarrrgghh.
He grimaces before lifting his foot above his enemies, before a realization occurs to him-swapping his boiling-rage to fear.
This isn’t me.. I-I don’t he glances at his allies, his search for his friends stopped short when he locked eyes with Jim.
If rage was incarnate-Jim would be it.
His face contorted though pale-why is it pale?-why is my little brot-he cut his thoughts short before he could get carried away, Jim’s face scrunched with rage was painted with sweat and blood-why is HE COVERED IN-his panic sent hellebores and lavenders flowing around his spine, he urges a vine to pick up Jim.
Although he struggles shortly when he gets grappled by the vines-he turns to look at me in confusion-but most importantly apprehension coated most of his features.
A dark part of him said-he should be afraid-and that was enough to make him slightly flinch when it echoed around his head, no, that's not me-it will never be me-I…I need to stop bellroc-fulfil nari’s promise.
“ J- “ he began, his voice scratchy from his wailing, “ Jim, I need you to help me, “ he pleaded to the trollhunter.
“ You-you’re not being controlled by belloc? “ Jim’s voice was bleeding with relief and his face melted from exhaustion, though a brief wave of confusion washed over him when he didn’t understand but then he realised-Nari-nari was controlled, the thought of the gentle goddess sent a wave of sadness through him.
“ No I wasn’t “ he cracked a smile despite his exhaustion, a sigh escaped the younger men.
“ Well-I’m glad, are you good enough to get us to bellroc? “ Douxie shortly nodded, opening his mouth, before being shortly cut-off.
“ Claire needs your help “ His voice echoes and thrums through him-despite that-the interruption that sends a flash of annoyance though him, unknowing to him-making his magic react subconsciously.
He stumbles over to where tobes has Claire in a death-grip, placing his hand on his shoulder, “ Tobes-what happened ? “ Tobes breathes in “ Don’t know-her eyes glowed milky-white though- “ Magic-of course it always has to do with magic, Jim bitterly thought.
“ But then she muttered-uh-e-ilk ma-no me-ill-e? “ Toby glazed the last part of the sentence, Jim pondered before shaking his head, “ Aja-follow me, Toby-can you carry her “ a faint nod met his peripheral vision.
Getting up-he heaves with the strain of his broken ribcage, as hiss passes his lips-sending 2 identical worried looks his way-he weakly waves his hands “ I’m fine “ before slowly stalking to the edge.
Looking down he sees the ground shaking, a short gasp from Aja-made him look upwards, gasping at what meets him.
A revived Life titan, standing on towering two legs with a waterfall cascading down what looks like a horn piercing into the sky, a hollow hole seems to be going through the middle of the middle of the body-trees-vines flow from the hole, seemingly a golden glow comes from the entrance of the hole.
Aaarrrgghh and Varvastos races over from their stationary positions to strike the colossal feet;
He shaked his head-looking up and made eye contact with douxie.
Douxie’s eyes-bore rage but most importantly-a coldness of disregard of life hollows his frame, his eyes glowing like a miniature sun’s looking eerily similar to nari’s when she was under Bellroc’s control.
Frowning-he downright glares at Douxie-not because of douxie-no-because of bellroc, the only way that he has the air around him must be because of Bellroc.
But before he can tell Aja to throw him on top of the titan, a vine wraps around his waist lifting him up quicker than he can see. The sharp winds bite at his face-flying him on top of the titan- the vines stop as the vine stalls just a bit away from douxie-not douxie bellroc-no-he looks at douxie.
He sees his frame sagging from loss-from grief-that’s why-his mind supplies.
“ J- “ his voice is like a broken record scratching the wrong part of his brain “ Jim, I need you to help me “ desperation clings to his voice, the wrongness-and bellroc possibly controlling douxie fades.
He realises that he is douxie-nothing else.
His face melted with relief.
“ No I wasn’t “ his face was beading with sweat but he smirks, a feeling he has yet to identify swirls in his brain-some part of him whispers-tha thu air do shaoradh tha do bhràthair gun chron-and that makes his head jump-what?-he shakes it off-trying to get focus back to reality.
“ Well-I’m glad , are you good enough to get us to bellroc ? “ he was worried but most importantly anxious of the familiar but alien feeling making his head pound.
Douxie shortly nods before his jaw works to form his following response-but he remembers Claire-Claire who needs a wizard-the one standing in front of him.
“ Claire needs your help “ he stated-feeling a sliver of strength be reintroduced to himself-but his head thrummed-before a squeeze of greater power-led to his strength being heavily drained, exhaustion came back heavier than before.
With the force of a greater power, a once faint spark-ignited.
Something shifts when he pushes against Jim’s thum something he recognized..
Douxie felt the shiver of ciceromancy-a rare type of magic far rare and hasn’t been seen since at least Atlantis! He felt compelled to obey but-the fact I can feel and react to it must mean that he doesn’t have true control over his magic-makes since with his lack of knowledge with magic, but to think he can still control it this much speaks of potential-Merlin stopped looking for other’s with potential after he took me in.
Saying it is a waste of time-for something he does not need-something he disagrees with, but his nature towards magic has always been different from Merlin’s. Where he would only find those that suited his needs ( he still doesn’t understand why Merlin chose him of all people ) and would only see magic as an extension-should you not need-you shall not heed it. One of his favourite sayings-aside from “ magic is not a shortcut to hard work. “
( he’s not sure, Merlins always been aloof with his speech around him but he’s sure he said that at some point during teaching him )
But Douxies view has always been curious, a need to simply be understanding to know of the different magic’s, that curiosity and thirst for knowledge of a major part of his life led him to go around the world to learn, never has he not pushed aside knowledge-whether or not where it comes from-just because of a ‘ preconceived bias ‘ to magic.
And that lead to many wizards to never know what promise they had, alike to Claire-she was lucky, but now that I’ve opened that can of worms, why hasn’t Jim fully awakened his magic-his flick of magic in his eyes and words from whether we have a meeting always makes him wonder-what is needed to awaken a ciceromancer alike Jim?
Arthur never had that spark-and despite his avant search for that type of magic, Master only had one scroll-even after his dive into Merlin's secret stash ( Archie-the thought of the dragon sends a burning scrape across his heart, said he was ‘ snooping ‘ ) there truly was only one scroll.
With only simple rune and structure of a spell-there is a mystery around that type of magic, and now that all of the knowledge is dead-he will never know…his rambling has gone on for too long-sighing he shakes his head.
“ Right, where is she? “
Krel felt as though he was-free, content, he felt like he was brimming with power, but a sharp pang of morando shot that feeling down quickly, right, reality, focus-what can i do-what am I doing?
He shifted his body, struggling with effort he looked down-he was at least 300 metres at the very least-it gave him a spin of his consciousness-which he swirled around.
He found himself in the middle of a crystal cavern, the crystal shimmering with a wonderful array of colours, and himself stuck in the middle of this wonderful masterpiece of nature.
He looked up to only be blinded by his CORE!
It's floating in a sphere of harsh winds, connected only by two crystal horns, now that he thinks of it, his head feels-heavy-he links it to exhaustion and categorises it for another time.
He looks down to his arm, each suctioned to a crystal clear mechanism, he would marvel over it if his very hardlight wasn't crystal.
” by SEKLOS AND GAYLEN “ his back hurts!
Bubbling and cracking of crystal made clear in his auditory senses-the overflowing magma-like feel pouring from his spine leaving his back searingly freezing cold , having searing pain in his back-the cracking stopped as a thwomp flew out of his back, panting he stood up on the icy ground, the pain residing but still there and-the sense of an extra limb is…new development-the clacking of Ice reaches his auditory sensory, from his spinal placement of his hologram is a tail that is formed from a mixture of ice and his hologram which is new development.
“ seklos and gaylen…it's weirdly lively “ his voice heavy with awe, before he turns over to a growing-rapidly growing titan, nari’s-wait-” Nari’s were never on bipedal form-and Nari is dead-So how?
As he realises the titan zooming towards him, his eyes widened.
“ WAIT! “ he yelps as the two bipedal titans crash into each other.
A loud thunder coated the sky of arcadia as a rumbling began to arise from the surface a large chunk of the hearthstone erupted from the ground, off in the distance-a lava titan missing an arm could be seen
Douxie reached his vines down to pick up Claire, plushing him in a flower he lifted his hands to press to her chest-searching his finds a disturbance-magic overuse-of course!
Douxie felt stupid, that much magic in such a short time, even for an experienced mage it is too much to handle-yet she's still a beginner in terms of magic skill!
He sighed “ Just magic overuse-she’ll be better once she rests and has a steady magic flow to feed though-she’ll be fine “
Relief sagged Jim’s shoulder, a weary sigh left his lips, smiling
“ Thanks “
“ No problem “ He smiled weariness and exhaustion hanging over his head “ now, what I wanted to do, let's take the battle to the bellroc. “
He reminded Jim, his face scrunched up and nodded, a sharp gasp from Aja made them look at her before she pointed towards where the ice titan, a quiet murmur of “ seklos and gaylen “ really undermined the fact.
The Ice titan clearly thought to be disposed of-is revived. .
“ Douxie, “ he turned to said person “ Yeah, on it “
Douxie’s face scrunched up, concentrating on moving his two legs and dropping the others to vines to put them safely out of reach.
Coating Claire in the flower petals of the flower-gently placing her next to the others, lifting the others from the ground and bringing them towards a cliffside.
Grunting-Douxie broke off into a run-once his allies got to a safe place.
Each step caused a strain on his physic-pushing forward; he rammed into the Ice titan not before a “ WAIT! “ and a short yelp.
He strained to see, and he saw a-a akiridion, a royal akiridion “ KREL “
He gushed absolutely washed with-with lo-love no-no just admiration-that's all there is! Its doesn’t mean that his simile is cute or how his cheeks bright up feels him with a mushy feeling or-how his hair is so fluffy like clouds that and how his eyes shine whenever he learns something new-yeah definite crush-the swirl of emotions made his face crack into a semi-smirk, his feet bloom’s with chrysanthemum and orchids-iris and daffodils and his hair turns into blossoms which makes him blush.
He shakes his head-clearing all that out- and calls out
“ sorry! Didn’t see you there mate, your alrigh’? “
“ holy kleb! Hello Douxie, this seems to be a new development! “
a chortle came from the ice titan.
He laughs “ Sure is! “
“ Here's a special delivery! “ Stuart hollers from inside the hover vehicle, hanging his body outside the truck , floating down excalibur in the stone, a hum from his pockets made Jim nervous-swirling with the overbearing feelings swimming in his stomach.
The stares of the others don’t do well either.
“ Alright, “ Aja said, her hologram mixing with purple and red “ but what I worry is-the titans, how are we sure they won’t-connect to the hearthstone by accident? “
“ I trust Krel and Douxie to know better, maybe we split up-cover more ground on the titans “ everyone's heads nodded, glimmering with specks of gold in their eyes
“ Alright, Krel-you’ll have Aja, Varvatos and aaarrrgghh, Douxie-you’ll have Toby, Steve, Claire and me, the rest of you will all follow us with the two trucks, does anyone have questions? “
He swept over them, deeply breathing he felt the amulet in his hands, the mass emotions sweeping over him like a wave-rage,grief-loss,hate so much hate, guilt, foolishness and exhaustion.
An armoured hand landed on his shoulder, “ Jimbo, “ Toby started “ you don't have to bear this alone, y’know that right? “ he felt himself smiling, shimmering with gold among the blue, a gasp drawn from douxie.
He feels himself drawing in a breath- idiot-idiot! It was staring me in the face- only those who are worthy-thou pull thy sword out of sword is righteous king born!
A king- Arthur , a leader!
A True cicermancer!
He looks at Jim, before sharing a look with krel-krel nods-walks to where the amulet was placed by stuart-sharply inhaling he steels himself, looking at Jim in the eye.
“ Jim, “ Douxie advised “ the amulet-the sword excalibur- it wasn’t made for the trollhunter it was made for you the sole purpose of the amulet was to defeat Gunmar, this isn’t a battle already fought, this is a battle to be made and you are the only one that can spearhead us into it- your the leader-your the king “ Jim’s eye’s shook, jaw clenching “ You can’t be the trollhunter because that not who you are, you are James Lake Jr, the boy who sacrificed his humanity whom carries a mandle upon his shoulder many cannot comprehend, you are solely Jim-the man who carries the weight of the world, but my question is are you going to crumble in the face of defeat or rise and meet the challenge? “
“ I’ve never been one to back down in the face of uncertainty, Douxie “ Jim's face carries his words, magic flows through him-cicremancy.
He smiles at the new hedgewizard, he turns towards excalibur, the ground vibrates with magic flowing from jim, pride carries through his emotions, making him simile, each step clicks with the amulet, he grabs the handle, inhaling he pulls, excalibur shines from its freedom-from his new successor.
“ Now, Let’s hunt a god “
“ Coniungere ad Jim et Toby “ Douxie chanted, “ Per fluxum vitae iungo et industriam sociis tuis diffunde “ a shimmer of green and gold encased Toby, Steve and Jim.
“ Tu modo mortis et interitus da sociis iter hoc fato flectere “ dark purple and blue with a flicker of white circled around Claire, who just got up a few minutes ago-which Jim is now fretting over.
And finally. “ Inhaero in terra “ a royal-blue glow encased the squad, a duo bantering about a certain someone's health.
Speaking of health-he is exhausted, all this magic-is making his head spin-the fact he hasn't completely exhausted his magic is-and this is a theory-because of the titan, it must be.
“ I am fine, Jim “ Claire's eyes showed with love but her voice carried her waning stamina - “ Just-Take it easy, please “ Jim pleaded, a vine covered hand touched his shoulder.
“ She’ll be fine “ Douxie similed, despite the reassuring words-the fact that half of his body is slowly being covered in vines and leaves sends a strange pang though him “ Right.. “
He turned back to Toby, Steve and Claire-
“ Go, by us time against bellroc while Krel gets in place and Eli charges up the anti-magic ray. “
A thought across his mind-a brief scroll he stumbled upon in masters study…master-he sighs before looking Jim straight in the face.
“ Now repeat after me - numen meum invoca lumen tuum et aethera in furorem meum effudisti- “ Jims spluttered face sends a chuckle through him.
“ alright numen-n-u-m-e-n, meum-m-e-u-m invoca-i-n-v-o-c-a lumen-l-u-m-e-n tuum t-u-u-m et -e-t aethera-a-e-t-h-e-r-a in-i-n furorem-f-u-r-o-r-e-m-meum-m-e-u-m, effudisti-e-f-f-u-d-i-s-t-i “ Douxie slowly repeats himself-Jim looks nervous, before softly chuckling
“ I-I think you meant Claire, I’m no wizard doux. “
“ No-you are. “ His words echo on top of the titan. ” Alright, uhh-” Jim stutters, before mumbling and concentrating,
“ Patience-it won’t come to you immediately, “ Douxie instructed, Jim nodding, inhaling.
“ nu-men-me-um-inv-oca-lumen-tu-um-et-ae-the-ra-in-fur-ore-m-meum-e-ff-udi-sti?” butchered but-good for a first go,
“ Alright, try again, this time try and not butcher it mate. “ he teases.
“ numen meum invoca lumen tuum et aethera in furorem meum effudisti.” fills his ears, a shimmer of rich gold-royal blue and an earthly golden brown-which looks eerily similar to the hearthstone-as his eyes burn bright gold.
A gasp breaks from Claire-Toby’s wine of “ aww c'mon! Why does he get cool supermagicy powers! “ and Steve's dropped jaw-sends a tinkle of pride throughout his body-sending amaryllis blooming into his head.
“ I-what did-I’m a wizard?! “ Jim shrieks before manically laughing-turning back to douxie, who smirks, “ Try your amulet now. “ he winks before concentrating on keeping pace with a quick ice titan.
Taking a deep breath he stills himself and looks as the words on the amulet shifts.
“ For the good of all, Excalibur is mine to command! “ he chanted-the pulsing of magic overshadowed the whisper of the dark-leasaichidh tu smachd chrono
His body was quickly encased in dark-fitting fabric, with golden and royal-blue accents, with a milky-white armour with the thin lines that are engraved into the armour coloured a dark blue with golden and rich-wine colours swimming with the lines.
His armour was completed with a cape slinging across his shoulders, draping down his waist and back-was a embroidery semi-transparent alike to akiridion tapestry, it was styled with a rich shade of wine-like red.
A heavy thudding doubled as the renewed Ice and Life Titans moved forwards a steadily growing hearthstone, and the lava titan - “ BELLROC “ Douxie and Jim snarled, Krel glaring at the lava titan, but steadily picking up speed.
Susan-and-Stuart's truck holding the anti-magic ray raced alongside them.
The crashing of concrete-and crumble of building’s slowly reached Eli’s. Looking up he saw the lava titan slowly running towards the hearthstone-before being slammed by Nar-Douxie’s Titan, which is really cool!-I wonder how, is it a mechanism that only wizards can use? Before he could get distracted the rocking of the van brought him back.
“ The Anti-Magic Ray! “ Stuart calls from his driver's seat swerving around rubble and driving through dust “ Right! “ Eli chirped back, getting the Anti-magic ray ready, remembering Krel’s instruction and his own experience with akiridion tech, pulling levers and revving up the power dial- he strains to aim it towards the fire titan.
Krel watched the lava titan-stuck in a stalemate with douxie-he glanced to where Aja, Varavtos and aaarrrgghh stood, “ time to kick this buttsnack’s butt-as my blonde oaf would say “ Aja crowed, before leaping with her serrator,
“ This is most glorious! “ Varvatos yelled
“ For Blinky “ Aaarrrgghh followed shortly after, Varvatos having his own serrator shaped into a spear and aaarrrgghh racing towards the ground-skiing on his titan.
Bellroc moved rushing towards him-he followed suit-the two titans clashing causing a sonic boom to ring around them, he growled- before he felt a slip-he quickly righted himself.
Down below the Ice titans legs-was aaarrrgghh, he looked up at the rumbling and saw dark, turning to dust underneath the weight.
Varvatos’s holloring followed closely by Aja, she landed-spinning and transforming her serrator to a sword, Varvatos dented the ground he landed on before rushing with his serrator towards bellroc, Aja didn’t even have time to blink-Bellroc spins on their heels before pointing their staff towards Varvatos, shortly after he was nothing but melted core on the ground.
Horrified-Aja’s spirit falters-causing her to be knocked back, a shadow portal catches her.
He continued to push against bellroc-groaning with effort, despite this bellroc seemed to be preoccupied with Toby, Steve, Claire and Aja, he scanned around for Varvatos-but what caught his sight horrified him, Varvatos’s core half melted on the side of the titan-he didn’t get to fight back-a part of him whispers.
“ Take this you buttsnack! “ Steve battlecries rushing with toothache , only to be shot away with fire, making the young man to cry out in pain before a shadow portal engluths him, Blasts of miniature black magic shots from more portals appearing from thin air, Bellroc manages to block some of them-not before being hit one by the back.
“ You will regret this foolishness will cost you your lives “ the dual-voice echoed around Tobie's ears-groaning he muttered ‘ stupid evil villians-stupid destroy the world plans-stupid evil speeches ‘ before rushing into a shadow portal on his left.
Floating in the shadow realm never gets easier-he struggles for a second before a clawed hand reorients his body, facing Claire he gives a thumbs up, a shadow portal swallowed him before appearing above bellroc, in which seems to be struggling against-krel, good they're here.
He hits Bellroc straight on their head, giving him the sweet sound of a cry of pain- that's what you get! For harming Jim and… he shakes his head frowning, before Steve and Aja take Bellroc by the sides with their respective weapons, before-before being burned alive.
The screams of them both echo in his head, Steve body, lies limp as nothing but ashy muscle and bone, Aja’s core melting into the titan, a animal-like shriek sound behind him-swerving towards the sound he sees-Krel’s cheeks damp with tears straining his crystal illusionist appearance, his body clouding with a mixture of colour-a dual tone chortle sounded behind him-before he could react, the final thing he heard was whoosh of a hammer-my warhammer-.
Krel shrieks-crying from the grief of her last family dying-in his burning gaze to the massacre-he notices toby-toby looking at him and not bellroc, he becomes nothing but a bloody mess smearing along the titan, “ no.. “ dread crawls up to him “ you-you killed my family! “ He brawls, smashing his arm on top of the titan.
The arm strains with their other arm stopping his momentum, before a flash of gold occurs on the lava titan and the life titan-thrusted into the lava titan, making his attack land on their shoulder earning a screech from the primordial god.
Jim battlecries echoes throughout the battle-making Bellroc turn towards him snarling-before a screech erupts from them-a frosted area appears on his shoulder- “ Your all fools-truly never have a met a more foolish children to charge with titans-things you do not understand of all things “ their dual-tone turned into a motherly scolding with a hint of longing, it twisted terribly in his stomach, they don’t deserve to use that tone with me.
“ You shut your mouth “ Jim snarls-rushing up to him in his armour- he clashed against their staff before sliding his greatsword on it and swerving his body in a 180 degree flip, he twisted himself horizontally-slashing their head-eyes on their body, a yowl rips from the throat-they clutch the head-set.
He lands-sliding away, to gain distance, a shadow portal appears next to him-a worried Claire appears, before frowning and getting prepared with her staff-a stick obviously from Douxies Titan.
The titans shaking-trying to contain the fire titan-their too close to the hearthstone!-he frowns before racing up behind a heaving bellrock-slashing their back before they can turn, a howl comes from their mouth.
“ Cursed child! “ they shriek-before attacking with a fire blast-Jim grunts as he struggles to remain straight-slashing the fire spiral in the middle-when the fire blast paused before bellroc came out of the smoke-launching himself across crashing across the surface he grinded his teeth together as he gets up-feeling like he is on fire-pain searing his senses to null-looking around-he find no bellroc, groaning he grips his greatsword, shortly gasping once he sees it.
Bellrocs melting Claire's throat.
He screams her name, rushing towards her-being too late as her head shortly decapitates, leaving her body limp on the titan-tears pour from his eyes, he shrieks drawing his sword to parry bellrocs fist, bellroc drops down-using their staff to hit his stomach-gagging he attempts to gain distance-bellroc shortly follows him-he strikes bellrocs staff-slicing it in two.
A dual-toned yowl brings a vindictive feeling inside him-as he brings up his greatsword, preparing to slice down at bellroc-not before he saw the smirk of victory on their face.
“ Poor little child-oblivious to your consequences of trying to play hero “ they cruelly teased as the strike their fist against the air-confusion shortly follows, before a gurgling croak enters his ears.
Krel.
On the ground eli-struggling to turn on the anti-magic ray, gasps and jeers as he powers it up-before he can turn it on, a sharp gasp from stuart makes him turn his head-oh how he regrets turning his head-the lava titan had stabbed the ice titan in the chest.
“ oh seklos and gaylen “ he whimpers-stuart struggles to turn on the truck in time, the collapsed titan closing in on them, he holds his arms on his neck and curls up as tight as he can.
Krel-in his shrieking didn’t realise the thrust knocked the lava titans hand free, his shrieking turns into croaking-he looks down, a bubbling of lava melts through him, “ Douxie? “ he looks at douxie-his face pale-sweating with fighting-dried tears now fresh-realising, in his final moments-oh kelp, I guess-I like Douxie, huh? As the memories of him and Douxie flash behind his eyes-he feels as though someone had removed an unknown veil on his feelings-he adored Douxie, loves him.
His smile seems like a grimace before losing his footing.
Krel’s face etched into every fiber of his being-his nerves blight with pain, he screams, “ KREL! “ he stretches a hand towards him futile-he knows it-deep deep down, he knows, he’s never coming back.
He was never one to be good with grief, nevertheless grief like this…he can only remember one other time he felt like this-he never wants to feel that way again, his face become darker-withering in pain, his eyes start bleeding black, he pulls the titan and grunting as he threw them away from the hearthstone, “ You’ve taken everything from ME! “ yowling he manages to skid their titan onto the ground, pinning bellroc-he raises his hand-and punches.
He pants-heaving from the nausea swirls his senses the burning of flesh pollutes his nose-all this-all this death it's all because of them, he leapt to bellroc cutting of their arm with excalibur, he screams slashing, again-and again, krel-claire-toby-aja-steve-aaarrrgghh-draal-strickler-mom-nomura-vendel-blinky-archie.
The large shifting and drastic movement of the lava titan barely registers to him.
The burning in his veins seem to be universes away from him.
“ You’ve taken everything from ME! “ Douxie/Jim shrieks, slashing down at the same time, the lava titan crumbles underneath Douxie’s punch, bellroc shrieking, and holding their head-not before this side of their skull and right arm gets slashed off, armless-bellroc growls despite their head pouring lava.
“ You will not escape this “ they croak, before he can react-a blinding light pours from the hearthstone-a clawed hand grabs his throat.
“ a farewell gift “ a dual-toned voice chortled, searing pain-alike to being burned alive went through his veins,muscles and blood-his throat seems to get drier-the sharp winds around him deafen his yowl, along with a shiver across his body-his body seemingly in a white void-his nerves burning with pain, to the point he became numb to the pain.
Far consumed by grief neither noticed the ice titan crashing into the hearthstone, starting a permanent ice-age, cold and harsh winds howling outwards, ice spiking out of the ground-implaling the life titan.
Douxie sharply inhales-a cold-numbness overflowing his nerves-his body frozen in an eternal scream.
The Life titan collapsed into rumble-turning his frozen body into shards on the ground, ancient release of power sends the world into a multitudes of plant and grass-sickness and death, the eternal ice-age sending the water flooding the cities and drawing the bodies of the dead into the sea-bleeding it red.
Jim slowly blinks into awareness, crawling on the floor-he knocks into something, the shard from belloc’s staff, he shuffles away from it-shortly the shard becomes nothing but red specks of flame-his breath clouding with the freezing temperatures despite being underneath living lava-what how am I alive?
He looks around shuffling-crawling on top of the edges of the titan he breaches the surface, the loud winds cut his skin-but…what nari said before she got taken back to the arcane order-krohnisfere makes right-it has a way to fix it, it must have a way to fix it.
He stumbles along the frosted and frigid winds, stubbornly walking despite the numbness and ice slowly swallowing him up-the spores hanging in the way-dissolving his skin, seeping it into the ground, marking his journey in black and crimson.
He makes his way to Stuart's taco truck-crushed, dark green blood smeared on the windscreen, he screeches the sliding door open, the crushed body of eli-soullessly staring with a panic forever frozen in his face.
Numbness overflows his veins and every fibre of his being.
The clinking of the krohnisfere,
Everything is gone
The scaping of excalibur rises above his head
Nothing is left
He strikes down
What was this all for?
The clinking of the gem on the ground
Maybe kanjigar was right.
The shift of the armour falling from his body
Maybe I’m cursed to be alone
The shine of the two objects-gold and green-blink against the cold white and blue.
“ For the good of all, time is mine to command. “