Chapter  <ⅩⅢ>

Tenmei Akiro looked around at the Parusefors above him as more and more emerged out of the shadows, for they were always there but chose to be unseen. The residents of peach blossom villages were all wide awake by this time, terrified of the killing and fighting and the star ninjas at their roofs. They call upon their ealdorman and leader of arms Callion Bravo who stood before his people in their time of need.

 

“ Get off our roofs, shady star Assassins !” Callion Bravo declared like a true leader of the people

“ We Peach blossom folk hallow peace more than anything else, but are willing to resort to violent arms if threatened !!”

 

“ We are not the ones that threaten your town, ealdorman.” spake from behind all the menacing Parusefors already present, stepping each intimidating step slowly out into the light in upgraded customized Starchild armor emblazoned in crystals of all colors of the night sky over the smooth star metal surfaces, alongside Sven the lancer Master Striker, also in full star metal armor.

A smooth greatsword in this new coming Parusefor Master’s hand, a sword so great in proportion taller than Tenmei inn two-fold, and the blade shines not of metal blaze unlike any greatsword of the Kingdeniom lands but reflects the galaxies and star-filled milky ways from within that seemed to extend from inner a universe of its own.

The wielder of such magnificent greatsword one and only of this present, with the Starchild helm slowly opening like a blooming night lotus to reveal a tense fierce young woman whose beauty shines most radiant among the night in her strength and courage, crimson red hair that flowed out as the lotus blooming helm let go like a stream of burning blood swaying down the Master Striker’s back to her ankles.

 

This Master Striker, of who even Sven fought and seldom wins in combat training, be the current lead Master of the group of Master Strikers, Riella the Star cleaver.

 

And Riella Leader Master Striker pointed a straight firm finger at our boy Tenmei Akiro covered in blood and demon pus upon the Ark’arios armor.

 

“ It is that Arch Demon that threatens not only your whole village, but our world, our futures! “

Riella spoke out to all loud and clear in lo unbending bright voice of power and leadership which commands the stars

“ And we will hunt it down, for Mirai, and all of us’ future !!”

 

And with her helm of lotus leaf-like metal shards closing back to her face, signaling the Parusefor Strikers to begin their all-out strike, like purple meteors they struck down on Tenmei in but seconds, blowing up the ground the Ark’arios stood with powerful waves, and beams from all sorts of weapons shooting out precisely at Tenmei Akiro’s face and vital organs, one Parusefor let go of a specific poison that only Arch Demons are allergic to and Tenmei Akiro was forced to sneeze and falter in the fierce outnumbered battle of the Starchilds.

“ BOY !! You have been fumbling for too long !!” The Ark’arios boomed in frantic anger

“ You are slacking! Show them true colors, fool! Our lives depend on it !!”

 

“ Only YOU depend on that !!” Tenmei Akiro shouted back in great sorrow

“ You have used my hand for too much bloodshed! I shall serve thee no more !!!”

 

“ Then triple your Foolishness has become !!” Archdemon Ark’arios howled as its roar knocked back a series of Parusefor Strikes

“ Alright, if you so need a belief to follow my path, then I shall share !!!”

 

And finally, Ark’arios summoned the Demon Greatsword Lifthrasir to Tenmei’s hand, bursting with chaotic cursed shockwaves that no Parusefor could near, except the Leader Master Riella with her greatsword of the cosmos sucked the cursed smog with her universe blade and pushed her Strikers forth together.

 

“ Listen, boy !” Ark’arios lo spake with its booming demonic voice

“ For all the reasons I have to live, is to protect the Seed !! From those who harbor greed and obscenity towards the gateway to Miracle Herunia !! Many want that girl’s life, And My Promise is to keep the Seed inside her Safe !!!! If you slack on like this, SHE will BE DEAD !!!!!”

 

Hearing this, Tenmei from the thin visor of the Ark’arios helm, saw Haru among the chaos, helping the others carry the bleeding Varis back with Nison Char and Agnes, and as Haru so slightly looked back, their eyes met, in the storm of blood and battle.

Tenmei thought of Haru, 

 

And he thought of the devastation he had caused.

He, Tenmei Akiro, was at a crossroads.

What should he do?

 

How should he choose?

“ But Mirai………”

Tenmei Akiro whispered as more and more weapons thrust and break the Ark’arios armor bit by bit.

“ Tenmei… Akiro….”

 

Tenmei looked down from the chaos for he thought he heard a voice, a voice he cannot remember from whom but resonating strongly within his heart as it called out to him !

 

It was a voice, kind and gentle of a man who Tenmei Akiro felt he knew for so long but couldn’t remember his face.

 

And from the Strike Force within all, Tenmei felt a big warm rough hand that gently placed onto his tense armored arms that so held the cursed Lifthrasir sword still.

And Tenmei felt it.

There is nothing he could do to destroy the Arch Demon, 

 

Not even Mirai,

 

But there was one thing he could do, 

 

One thing that led to the other.

He can choose.

 

 

Tenmei Akiro took a deep breath before the storm comes to him in showers of Parusefor weapons

“ I can help you stay.” Tenmei Akiro decided with great resolve

“ But I will not kill anymore.”

 

And to Ark’arios and even all the Parusefor Strikers’ surprise, Tenmei let go of the Lifthrasir greatsword and let it sink back to the chaos whirlpool from whence it came and faced the coming swarm of star assassins with but his bear demon armored fists and skills from the memories of the Parusefor training.

Lo, Tenmei dashed forth, with great agility and devastating force at the same time, dodging a star rock chainsaw as he hurtled the Parusefor threatening weapon to a side to parry another Parusefor Strikers’ venomous claws and lightning hammers, tossing all the weapons clashing to a side before grabbing a star halberd coming at him and swung it back to break a row of Parusefors’ footing.

Many Strikers challenged all at once, and Tenmei Akiro our man faced them all bravely, punching his way out of the fury and assassinating, until the stars and planets themselves appeared before him and they erupted in supernova blooms, smashing Tenmei back and crashing through the old granny’s herbal store.

 

It was the blade of the cosmos that Parusefor Master Riella Star cleaver wielded, a blade that is able to summon planets and stars at its calling and obliterate enemies entirely. 

And next to Riella is Sven with his lance of Star metal.

 

“ My lance is made out of a dying star, and it can pierce through anything I desire, and it never misses.” Sven explained about his cool weapon all of a sudden.

 

“ Why are you telling me this ?” Riella snapped impatiently, about to face the Tenmei Ark’arios in fierce battle for life and future.

 

“ Nothing, just a quick reminder.” Sven swiftly with an elegant toss of his Star lance flew out like a comet on its own, shooting with immense force straight at Tenmei Akiro’s face before the tip of the weapon ran through his nose did Tenmei stop the lance with his clapping palms just in time with all the raw strength he could muster into his hands as the piercing tip vibrated violently like a frenzy beast starving for Tenmei’s light blood.

 

Tenmei saw from the edge of his eye Riella lunging down with her cosmos blade raised high about to sever his body, and quickly guided his body, stirring the frenzy star lance in his palm towards Riella and let the cosmos blade strike the lancer head on, as the force of both weapons collided and a force erupted, pushing everything and everyone all back.

 

Quickly Sven summoned his lance back to him to shoot once more in half a blinking eyes’ time, which Tenmei Akiro with the full strength of the Ark’arios at his disposal, combined his two fists together and smashed the lance coming straight at him hard into the ground, burying the lance as Tenmei looked up at the last second from the coming slash of the cosmos sword which swung down where his head was. The cosmos blade struck the ground with such immense power, letting out stars that blow up the whole herbal store in one series of cosmic explosions.

 

Sven held out his hand to summon his lance back,

 

        but nothing came.

 

Riella raised her sword once more, to see no Tenmei Akiro, but Sven’s lance, broke in two halves under that one cosmic slash.

“ Oops.” Riella whispered to herself.

…

……….

That same Night. 

 

Far away in the North, in Vilencia’s castle Winter Cold.

Someone kicked open the door in the soldier’s dorm with such haste.

 

Andrew Anjou Alesdale, second son of the loyal house of Alesdale, looked up from his bed to see his door kicked down and the blinding light from the corridors outside beamed his eyes shut.

His room was blazed abright, for a figure in full superior uniform turned on all the lights.

 

Squinting hard and blurry his vision still was, Andrew could see that it was the silhouette of his older brother Vlite Bonanza Alesdale, First Son!

 

Andrew was confused

 

“ Brother! What the….”

 

“ Get up, Andrew !!!” Vlite Bonanza Alesdale yelled at his brother, shaking him wide awake off the bed to his feet

“ Don't you know your brother is blown up !?”

 

“ Legion ?! How can it be ??” Asked Andrew, mortified.

 

“ The hospital wing just exploded !!!!” 

Vlite Bonanza Alesdale the oldest brother shouted angrily in grave hurry.

“ And he is nowhere to be found !!”

“ Do not jest, brother !” Andrew argued back aloud, readying his outfits and raced to the door with his brother.

“ He must have found a way out himself !”

 

“ I am getting to the hospital to look for him !” Vlite snarled furiously

“ Damn! Who in their right mind would blow up a hospital ?!!”

“ In that case, let me join you.”

spake an awesome voice from none other than Toshiumi Al Seraphim, the Lord of the golden Exia Rune, and Awesome bro to all, jogging alongside Vlite and Andrew down the corridors.

“ Drill instructor! You know of the hospital being blown up too ??” Andrew and Vlite asked the awesome hero lord, who smiled without haste in his dictionary.

 

“ No. My sleep was halted abruptly by you two, so I decided to wake up and see what is going on.” Toshiumi answered awesomely.

And there the three were, standing inside the burned ravaged room that once was where third son Legion lay in hospitalized care, now but a black pile of ash with some black scorched metal pieces protruding out of the wreck.

 

Legion was long gone.

 

“ No….” Andrew tried to hold back his tears

“ I knew he made a lot of enemies….but this……This is unacceptable, Brother! We must find the culprit and avenge Legion! House Alesdale shall not tolerate such treachery!!”

 

“ We will skin this culprit and cook his flesh before feeding it to the dogs !” Vlite vowed, a way to torture the enemies in the old Northerner manner.

 

“ Calm yourselves, gentlemen.” Toshiumi however spake to the two hot-headed brothers gallantly.

“ It is clear that your brother is still alive, and may also be accused of arson.”

 

“ What do you mean ?!?!” the two Alesdale brothers cried in shock at the revelation.

 

“ You see, I am quite the expert on burning things. And I see that this explosion pattern is from one side, and especially from the outside, out of the window. The windows were supposed to be closed in this air-conditioned hospital room, but we see from this lock remains that it was unlocked already before the explosion, but only Legion can reach and open the window from the inside.

 Also if Legion were here in the fires, he would leave some remains, instead, these were but his clothes, without his bodily ash within. I surmise it was Legion who opened the window to creep out and used some way to blow up this room in an act of some multidimensional prank on us.”

 

Andrew and Vlite were speechless by the well-thought-out deduction of the Awesome Golden Lord and could but agree with Toshiumi’s assessments in utter silence.

 

“ So…..where is Legion now ?” Andrew asked, a question that no one really knows, not even Legion’s brothers.

…

………….

Before being cleaved by the cosmos greatsword,

 

Tenmei quickly morphed the Ark’arios armor into a pool of demon pus, sinking in and slithered quickly out of the village deep into the woods to escape the Parusefor chase, while leaving the granny herbal store blown to smithereens.

“ Enough !!!!” Callion Bravo hollered angrily at the wounded Parusefors that failed the hunt

“ You claimed to hunt a Demon but instead you hunted down our good homes !! 

I request payment for all the destruction you assassins caused !!!”

 

“ And I too ask for payment for this.” Sven Master Striker said also, holding his broken lance out to Riella.

 

“ Alright, fine! We’ll pay for the houses !” Riella agreed angrily as someone passed her a pen and a check.

“ But be warned, if you dare hide this dire Demon away from us, we’ll see you as enemies of the future as well !!”

Riella snarled and finished signing the check reluctantly and handed it to Callion Bravo.

 

Callion read the check and couldn’t help but whistle in delight.

 

“ Of course, we will not hide any demons! Why would we ?!” Callion Bravo asked his fellow townsfolk.

“ But that is Jyumei Akibo you are after. And he is a good man so the Military Genius told me.”

 

“ Who ?!” Riella frowned at the mention of this Jyumei Akibo.

 

  Rang jolted in apprehension.

 

“ Jyumei Akibo has Died !!” Rang suddenly cried out that very instant, coming close to Callion and Riella the Leader Striker with tears that flowed like a mighty stream out of his eyes and wet all his long thick sleeves and robes.

“ Alas! He died in his room which collapsed when turmoil broke out! Aiyah !! All was in peace, until the Parusefor nation attacked !!”

Rang wailed and mourned on his knees while Callion Bravo quickly helped the military strategist to stand.

 

The peach blossom villagers also began to show dismay and shouted words of dispute at the Parusefors, wishing them leave at once for the destruction of their property at once.

 

Riella bit her lips impatiently, for though a leader of the Parusefor Strikers she may be, she is far from being a negotiator but more a steadfast person of action, while Sven the negotiator quickly came forth to all the furious folk

 

“ Folks !! We apologize for the sudden intrusion and roof jumping, but you all know Arch Demons are what devour our homes and generations. The damage fees will be covered, your losses will be reimbursed, and the dead will be buried. Rest assured, and if any of you see this Tenmei Akiro person roaming about in the mountains, you inform us ! Thank you for your cooperation.”

And nodding to the other Parusefor knights, they began to leave, with the paycheck in Callion’s hands.

 

Riella the leader puffed her cheeks in dismay

“ I am still your leader.” Riella whispered at Sven in a silent snarl.

 

“ Yeah yeah, you owe me a new lance. Now, what am I supposed to hunt with for the rest of the night ?”

Sven volleyed back annoyedly as the Parusefors entered the mountains for the second hunt.

 

The other villagers went to fix their broken property, while Callion Bravo stood quietly alone at the village square.

“ What ails you, noble Ealdorman ?” Rang asked, a penny for Callion’s thoughts.

 

Callion Bravo fumed quietly and gravely.

 

“........I was right.”

Callion spake to Rang seriously.

“ That man under your command, is Tenmei Akiro! The same boy that destroyed a thriving kingdom, and murdered my sworn brother Tenmei Taro! And You Lied !!”

Callion accused Rang, who stayed calm before the angry village ealdorman.

 

“ Now that you have grasped the truth.” Rang spoke also in a deep silent serious tone, coming close to Callion Bravo

“ I will be sharing more willingly. And this is why……”

 

And Reeve, Callion Bravo’s saber man saw Rang whisper something to Callion’s ear, which made the Ealdorman gasp with an expression that cannot hide his true awe. Then the Ealdorman and the military strategist both nodded and bowed to each other before going on their separate ways to their villas.

Reeve Lowangleen the saber man went to the Ealdorman Callion’s hut, curious of what the military strategist told him.

 

“ Callion! That Jyumei is indeed the ArchDemon which the Parusefors are after !”

Reeve began to discuss with Callion.

“ It is as I observed when you made me join them to Tron bay !”

 

“ That’s right. And I have bigger news.” Callion Bravo sneered to Reeve a sly sneer.

“ That Rang told me he keeps the Archdemon alive for his true master. Which means this Rang will not kill the Archdemon per his duties. That is good, because we have this !”

 

And Callion turned on his U-phone and on the screen was a map. On that map was a bright red signal flashing in a particular location in the mountains not far away.

 

“ Thanks to you on the trip to Tron, I have a tracker on this Tenmei Akiro !!” Callion Bravo sniggered with glee.

 

“ Yeah, and when I saw That Tenmei is not coming back, I thought the plan is gonna fail, but that robot lady brought him back to us! How convenient !!” Reeve cheered not too loud to be heard.

 

“ Indeed! Now listen, Reeve.” Callion and Reeve came together ear to ear

“ With this tracker, we will find Tenmei, knock him out from afar and give him to the Parusefors for a high price! Then, we rob that Strategist and hold him hostage for more ransom from his master! A Win-Win !!”

Callion Bravo laughed, and so did Reeve, with their snide plans finally in fruition.

Back at Rang's hut, Varis and Griffon lay in their beds, while Agnes and Miula Aki help tend their wounds while the granny of the herbal store provide medicines.

 

Griffon’s wounds are mostly superficial, but Varis’ were deep, exposing many artificial materials and machinations in which wires were all cut off and gears fell apart. Blood and mercury were also lost in large quantities. It does not need a great physician to see that Varis is fading.

 

“ What to do? We need a doctor of machines !” Nina Zefield cried in haste.

 

“ A doctor of machines you say ?!” Miula Kenshi, Haru’s dad and engineering professor of tech and experimental equipment, joined them and observed Varis’ wounds carefully.

“ This is Terminas tech. I think I can do it.” Miula Kenshi spoke aloud.

“ But I need a lot of parts and gears, we must find them and tear them off to put inside her !”

 

“ No need.” Nison Char, the battered, the bastard, the Demon basher, standing by leaning on the wall, his cloth splattered with Varis’ blood and mercury for he is the one that carried her here.

“ I can make them parts with my power. You say, and I provide.” And Lo, from Nison Char’s orange hand magics the vagabond so possesses, Char conjured many parts and gears of all kinds and the two men began to work on their surgery to save Varis.

Seeing that Varis and Griffon are well cared for, Rang went to his room to brood and make a phone call.

Toshiumi the Awesome lord of the Golden Exia Rune, walking back from the blown-up hospital fished out his U-phone from his jacket that was ringing.

“ Rang! What is it? Is it something urgent ?” Lord Toshiumi asked, quite glad to hear the strategist’s voice.

“ My Lord, The Parusefors have begun their hunt on the Ark’arios, it might perish soon. I may need to send the Seed to you earlier than planned.”

Rang secretly reported to his true Lord and liege, Lord Toshiumi the golden. 

 

“ I see.” Toshiumi the Awesome nodded

“ Then I will set off as soon as you are ready. May the Sun bless your trail, Rang. ”

 

“ Yes, Your Awesomness.” Rang agreed and hung up the phone.

Rang sat back on his cozy armchair and sighed with a relaxed smile.

 

“ I know you have heard everything. It’s alright. I have already planned to let you hear our conversation.”

Rang spoke amiably to the one hiding behind his room door, which slowly swung open, to reveal Haru, shocked and distraught by what she just heard from the strategist.

 

“ Come.” Rang addressed Haru with a welcoming smile.

“ Have a seat, And let me elucidate your fate.”

 

Haru sat down on a chair facing the relaxed strategist, who closed his eyes in expectation of Haru’s questions.

“ You work for the Lord of the Golden Exia Rune……” Haru spoke in a quiet whisper, to make sure of what she heard from Rang’s phone call.

 

“ I Do.” Rang nodded in confirmation.

 

“ …….Why are you taking me to the Lord, Rang ?” Haru then asked, about the plans Rang secretly brewed all this time.

 

“ Because you are needed by the Golden Lord because of what the Seed can achieve. There, on an island far from Lasvet and all the others that bear ill will towards your power, you will be safe there. And most important of all, We will help you take the Seed out of your body.” 

 

Haru stared at Rang, unable to believe what she just heard.

 

Rang continued.

“ Your father and I had an unfinished project to help separate you from the Seed. And on that island, I have prepared all that is needed for the operation. That is part of the plan all along, to assist Professor Kenshi in taking the Seed out of you, so that you can be free from the curse, and relive a normal life a high school girl should.”

 

And Rang smiled, reassuringly at Haru who still doesn’t fully believe, but if it is from the military genius Rang, then it is 99% true.

“ Then…..what about Tenmei?” Haru asked, eager to know of Rang’s plans for the young man.

 

“ He will Be Dead.” Rang replied with a gentle smile, answering her question candidly.

“ I have tried to kill him ever since our journey began, using Nison the vagabond, and on Liao, and back to Tron bay where I thought he would most definitely die by his own hands and Mirai’s. Varche King could have done the job but Nison Char broke the chains too early, that was my mistake.

But now, the whole clan of Parusefors with their Prime alongside them, the Ark’arios will stand no chance. I even sent people to finish the job if the Parusefors can’t kill him. With all that, Tenmei did serve a purpose to cease the Seed inside you from exploding, which is a great help, to be honest. 

Sad it may be, it is his Fate, and I elucidate them for others.”

 

“ NO……” Haru tried to argue and come up with a better way to spare Tenmei Akiro

“ He is a good person ! You can’t do this to him !”

 

“ I already did, and it is for the good of our existence.” Rang explained calmly to the angered Haru.

“ Indeed, I saw what Miss Varis could achieve to separate Tenmei and the Ark’arios, but at what cost ? It is the fate of the Ark’arios, the fate of the Arch Demon of Vengeance to fail, as the Elden Epics so depict and inscribe into our history. 

 

It is the only way.”

And even Haru could argue with that no more.

…

…………

The woods were where the real hunt begins, where the flourished leaves and the entwined branches cover the moonlight and cast the lands a dark veil, most favorable for the Starchilds to perform that expertise in the arts of assassination, of which Tenmei Akiro now bear witness and find himself a prey in the net of the capturers that seek his life.

The Parusefors seem to move faster and strike more deadly than before, breaking the Ark’arios armor with successive blows faster than the armor could regenerate itself. Tenmei tried to fight one Parudefor warrior at a time, but as one vanished, another took its place. When one Parusefor retreats, two more lunges forth.

With Parusefor Leader Striker Riella at the lead, and Sven, with two parts of his broken lance, it took only mere thirty minutes until Tenmei was all spent and finally pinned down to the ground, as the Parusefor Leader Riella brought the fallen and battered Tenmei Akiro to the Prime Paruseforon’s presence, he who stood high on a solitude mound, waiting for his children to bring the foul demon to him.

“ Well done, my children.” Nirvariel Nero congratulated in a deep light heart resonating voice his Parusefor army who stood gathered around their prime in a wide circle, the flame that was his head blazed brighter than the moon before Tenmei’s eyes.

 

Nirvariel Nero, walking down as purplish smog developed this Lord of mystique arts, clad in dark purple ancient Starchild Armor, of night and cosmos, emblazoned with runes of power and Star stones of caliber, his body that seemed ethereal under that armor and cloak but shows immense power with each step and each move the Prime took, which came close to the mortally wounded Tenmei Akiro, been forced to a kneel before this astounding huge Lord of the Exia of light human possibilities.

 

And Lo the Prime Paruseforon spoke

 

“ Ark’arios, for each cycle you return to cause death and destruction, I will surely bring doom to thee.”

Nirvariel Nero addressed the Demon inside Tenmei.

“ Thou fool….!!” The Ark’ario taunted the Prime

 

“ This time is different……You cannot be rid of me this easily this time, NEO !!” Ark’arios roared triumphantly, which the Prime of the Starchilds heed not, and brought out his large sword, but rocks bonded together through his sheer will, raised it high over Tenmei Akiro’s head.

 

“ Be rid of you pains me every time, Ark’arios…..”

 

spake the Prime in a deep whisper full of melancholy.

And the sword of the Prime did clash down on Tenmei’s skull, 

 

A blow that would instantly kill a man, kill any man,

 

But Nirvariel Nero saw that Tenmei was still intact, his skull without a dent,

And around this Tenmei Akiro, was a thin layer of brightening blue that shielded the strike of doom.

 

“ This…..” Nero Prime looked closely as the distraught Parusefors all came close as well

 

“ This…. is an Exia Rune……!!!” Nirvariel Nero boomed with his deep echoing voice that did shake the mound on which they stood

“ Impossible…..A Lord Slayer such as you, obtaining an Exian Rune! “

 

Nirvariel Nero leapt back three feet

 

“ Children !! Stay away !!!”

The Prime Paruseforon shouted to his Parusefor warriors

 

“ For your Lord and Prime is about to kill another Lord !!”

Tenmei Akiro was not himself, for just a few moments ago he had lost his consciousness and sank to exhausted slumber, and something deep inside him seemed to finally be freed from long confinement, and rebooted Tenmei through its own will like never before in strength and mind.

 

The stunned Parusefor knights looked at this Tenmei Akiro glowing in a blue alien light, as on his chest, from where the Ark’arios spreads out, there now shines a series of arching blue shimmering lines, forming a dazzling shape of unusual uniqueness in its majestic form, as the blue sigil grew larger and larger out of his chest.

 

“ …….” Tenmei did not speak but moved like a puppet with the lines that draw his limbs and body to place, standing up with his eyes full of nothing but sheer blue light.

The same blue light that he suddenly conjured when escaping from Liao with Haru to block the great beam sword of red Exia

“ Is that………An Exia Rune ?!?!?!?!” Riella cried in disbelief.

“ Always has been.” The Ark’arios laughed maniacally inside Tenmei Akiro’s senseless body

“ For this is the one strongest ability that we possess, the most prominent part of the Promise, to Slay All the Exian Lords, and Snatch their Runes !!!” 

 

The Parusefor warriors backend but were unwilling to leave their Prime behind, who with a loud boom, burst his whole body into purple flames, showing also his series of arching Exia Runes blazing Purple before his presence.

“ I have never seen an Exia Lord fight another Lord !” Denan Geii, the young Master Striker awed at the scene of their Lord Prime’s transcendence.

 

“ Has it ever happened before ?!” Marian Amastumina asked Sven who looked on gravely.

 

“ Not in nearly a thousand years…” Sven uttered, as both sides began to glow more and more in menacing proportions of energy, that formed into light pillars erecting high up to the heavens.

 

Nero raised his greatsword of rocks, that separated and linked together in a wider form of a purple bulk of sheer Exian energy,  a huge maximum weapon able to sever a continent.

 

And this consciousness Tenmei Akiro too with the Ark’arios Armor rejuvenated by the Power of the Blue Exia Rune, summoned the cursed Lifthrasir high, and with a beast-like shout Tenmei and Ark’arios burst forth and crashed Lifthrasir onto the Prime Nirvariel Nero, who blocked the blow with an instant move of his humongous energy sword, and the two Lords of Exian Power clashed, a clash that shook the world.

 

Children sleeping on the other side of the globe woke up with a jolt.

 

Birds perched on every tree that existed flew off in terror.

 

The seas have to readjust their waves to compensate for the blow.

 

Varche Scrirocco woke up from his sleep, as Milina, lying on his naked chest gasped at his Exia Lord Rune that was glowing Red abright.

Toshiumi the Awesome stood far away on top of a Vilencian building cooly, looking forth at the direction of the clash of the Lords, his golden sheathed saber in hand.

Back in Tron capital, standing at the palace mansion balcony, Old King Keiken, Lord of the Silver Exia Rune, and Emperor of the whole of Tron, was also gazing calmly at the South, his Silver Rune blazing in his palm.

And one clash was not enough.

Thus the two Lords, Tenmei Ark’arios and Nirvariel Nero started with light surpassing the speed of their colossal weapons, clashing and slashing at each other, smashing their weapons in unimaginable quick sessions, sending blow after blow of flurries of attacks at their opponent, two whirlwinds of chaos and torment and destruction bursting throughout the mound and no more did they clash on the mound for the mound was too small for their clash, so they Fly! Flying and smashing one another like two insane gods of death swinging the weights of the world over their shoulders, breaking the enemies’ poise, but instead, the world’s poise broke apart, and the earth seemed to spin ten thousand times in the opposite direction as Tenmei Ark’arios kicked the ground in which Nirvariel Nero evaded, and Nero shot his burning purple flame palm a smack towards Tenmei Akiro’s light heart, to which Tenmei with his blue burning hand smacked back at the Prime, two claps that seemed to all that lived on earth and soared along with the planet a drastic space deforming wrench, that spitted the globe off with the astounding smack of palms and pinballed across the galaxy, shooting through the sun and flying into a black hole and spinning out from the other side, engulfed in flames.

And Nirvariel Nero with a long wooooo shout let go of his weapons which let go of itself and exploded into a thousand large rocks that punched Tenmei Ark’arios’ belly one million times before exploding again each rock a supernova blast all over Tenmei, and as the Archdemon was suffering one million supernovas, Nero grabbed hold of Tenmei Akiro’s head with both purple flamed hands and inward his hands squashed Tenmei’s skull, which in return Tenmei Ark’arios emitted a strong planet piercing energy beam of blue Exian force straight at Paruseforon Nero’s fuming head, which caused zero damage whatsoever and Nero with the power to give birth to a baby squashed the head of Tenmei Akiro and immediately a Big Bang erupted within Nero Prime’s hands and a whole new universe was born within anew, but NO !! 

From that newborn universe in Nero’s palms, Tenmei Ark’arios flew out new and unscathed and pierced forth the Lifthrasir burning in black Demonic flame at Nero’s stomach, which Tenmei did pierce through but Nirvariel Nero woooooed again and this time he was but purple gas purple smoke purple everything in between and all that particles is a Nirvariel Nero of their own Lord’s Will and all the gazillion Neros shot a single Grand Assassinator Death Beam at Tenmei Ark’arios’ forehead and all the beyond numerous Nero’s beams condensed together in that one single point and time stopped, as Tenmei Ark’arios felt his head fall apart, one minuscule spec after another, and after ten thousand years, Tenmei Ark’arios returned to that burnt scorched mound he fought against the Lord and Prime Striker Nirvariel Nero and he realized he lost.

 

And through defeat, Tenmei Ark’arios fell down and lay there, motionless.

 

The spinning earth came to a subside as the waves regained their harmonic rhythm, and the birds perched back to their nests.

 

But Nirvariel Nero, descending from space whose feet touched grass and he too fell to the ground as all the Parusefor children, that witnessed the fight between the two Exian Lords, mind blown and moved to tears, came to their Prime and quickly escorted the old Lord of the Purple Exia back to the Hanging Gardens to rest,

leaving motionless Tenmei Akiro lying, 

on top of the barren burnt mound.

[.....................to be continued]