Before The Three Ch. 12

Before The Three

"Chapter Twelve - The Last Onslaught"

After several months, Deep within the Acorn Kingdom's castle, King Raphael, Chief Commander George, Lira and the three heroes stood around that of a map table of Mobius. "So we all know what we have to do?" asked Lira. "Yes, all fortified units will march straight towards the Empire, word from the Overlander scouts suggest that all the soldiers and forces of the Empire are gathering for one final fight. This might get difficult." King Raphael said. "That's why before we go on and attack, we send in your archers and our gunman to wipe off some of the Neonian threat that comes our way. If that doesn't work, then we'll use our artillery fire to clear the field out." George said. "Meanwhile I will stay here and do my best to protect the Kingdom, while the three of you will do your best to confront Neon Blacklight." Lira said. "Do you think we're ready?" Anfang asked. "After what you three have done, I'm sure you're all ready." Lira smiled.

"But I still worry, what if this does not work?" King Raphael said. "It will work, or else all of this is for nothing." Anfang said. So with bravery and consent in their hearts both the forces of the Acorn Kingdom, Echidnaopolis, and the Overlanders march to Pumpkin Hill where the Neonians awaited for them outside the New Xectros walls. The army stopped infront of the Neonian forces, they wore that of thick metal plating, with sharp weapons and shielding, they were ready for one final fight. The two factions stood there, waiting for the right move to make. Until they heard the sound of a horn being blown, the sound of war as the Neonians began to pronounce their war cry and ran towards them. King Raphael wearing his silver armor signaled his men as well as Chief Commander George to fire upon the Neonian Army with arrows and gunfire. After the onslaught of arrows and gunfire, the Chief Commander called in his cannons and artillery and fired upon the Neonians, clearing several waves of the Neonian threat. "For Mobius!" King Raphael shouted as he raises his sword and ran towards the Neonian threat with his army behind him.

The two forces clashed as sounds of death and defeat was heard through out the battle. To each side they suffered from death as both sides killed each other one by one. Meanwhile, Neon stood at his balcony, watching the battle from within his castle. "All is going according to plan, just as I expected. It's only a matter of time for them to fall under the forces of the Neonian legion." Just then, three small lights appeared from the distance, growing larger and entering the fray of the battle. Then bursts of light came forth through the battlefield, clearing that of the Neonian Legion two fold. Neon could not believe his eyes, on what is happening to his army. Neon growled in anger and said "Release the Dragon!" With that order, the soldiers ran to the calling horn and called forth the dragon. Then roars starts to fill in the red skies as a black dragon flew through the air.

But in surprise, the three lights darts through the sky and slain the dreaded beast in one strike. Neon's eyes opened wide as he saw his beast fall from the sky. Neon growled in furious anger and shouted "Children, meeting!" as he walks away from the balcony and heads towards the meeting room. Meanwhile at the battlefield Anfang shouted "Neon, come out and face us like the man you are!" but Neon didnt came, so the three heroes just barged into the castle and enter the throne room where Neon sat at his throne awaiting for them. "So, it would seem that my mistakes came to haunt me, how nice." Neon said. "Neon, your reign of terror ends now!" Ehrung said as he drew out his sword. "That may be the case, but my reign has just begun. Once I have defeated the forces of the Acorn Kingdom, all of Mobius will be under my control. And for you three, you will not be punished, instead you will be slain as your corpses decor that of the gates of the Empire to know that those who even dare speak against the empire will be punished greatly."

"Like hell you are, you aint going to rule anybody while we're around." Frieden said. "You're nothing more than a tyrant, a manipulator to your own people, a man who seeks only destruction and death!" Anfang pointed out. "You may call me a tyrant, but I do all of this for the sake of my people." Neon sat on his thone tapping on the arm rest of his throne. "Your so called people are suffering while this war is in progress, because of your actions your people suffer from famine, poverty, and corruption!" Frieden said. "Such is the price to pay in the time of war. Sacrifices must be made for complete victory." Neon said. "Even the cost of thousands of lives?" Anfang snarled. "Indeed, but now I'm sure you're not here to talk your way through this war. You're here to try to defeat the likes of me. I accept your challenge, but here we shall not fight. If I am to die or so you believe, then we must fight on my ancestral grounds, the Emperors Graveyard." Neon said standing up and using his sword like a cane. "Fine, then lets do this." Anfang said as Neon leads them out to the back and into the graveyard.

The graveyard was that of a barren field, with rusted swords and weapons scattered around the field. "Alright, lets get this show on the road shall we?" Neon said placing the blade of his sword on his shoulder and summons his scythe. The three heroes understood and surround him with their sword drawn. Neon watches them, keeping his eyes opened and said "You know this is almost the same tactic your masters tried to use against me, and you know how well that tactic did now do you?" Neon grinned. The three attacked him all at once as Neon jumped into the air and swung around, slinging fireballs at them only for the three heroes to jump back and flew to the skies and swung their swords at him. Neon blocked and countered them, knocking them back to the ground and lands on his feet. Frieden attacks him and flew back to let Ehrung take a shot at him, but Neon was quick, he continued to block with his sword and dodge their attacks. Then Anfang rushed to Neon and lunged his sword at him at a piercing motion. Neon grabbed the sword and by the force of Anfang's lunge attack he and Anfang was sent back with Neon struggling to hold onto the blade as it singes through his hands. Neon quickly pushed the sword aside and rubbed his hands. "Enchanted swords, nothing says a good hero than a good handicap." Neon chuckled.

"Neon, we know all about what you really are, what lurks inside of you. The power that you used to defeat our masters." Anfang pointed at Neon with his sword. "....So the secret is out then, which means I dont need to hold back now do I? Very well then, lets really get this started." Neon says as he makes a stance as a small current of dark energy started to flow around him. The white of his eyes slowly turned pitch black as his body tenses up. Neon then dashed straight towards Anfang and swung his sword with immense force, and as Anfang blocked it, it got him to his knees as Neon swung his sword at him again, blocking it once more and was tossed aside. Neon just laughed and spun his scythe around and hurled it at him. Ehrung saw this and grabbed Anfang with his telekinetic powers to pull him away from the attack.

"It's only a matter of time before you all die by my blade, just like your worthless masters!" Neon laughed. Anfang got up and the three heroes rushed towards him, swinging their blades at the darkened Emperor, but their attacks were in vain as Neon blocked their attacks and counter them, scrapping their armor with the edge of his sword. The three hero's armor was scraped, cut and left with scars, but they kept on fighting against Neon, cutting through his robes and leaving small scratches, only for them to heal over. They continued this over and over again, and while fighting against the Emperor, they noticed something different arising from Neon. He was becoming for savage, ferocious, his fur started to grow ragged as he started to pant like a wild animal. In the midst of the fight, Neon grabbed his head in agony, shouting as though he was in pain. They could hear the bones snapping and churning from within him as his voice churned into the growls of a beast.

Neon then drops his sword as his scythe vanished back to the void. Neon then went to a four legged stance and started to growl like a savage animal. The three heroes looked at him strangely until Neon pounced in a furious rage and attacked them with his red iron claws. He was fast, nimble, yet tough as nails. He went berserk upon them, but the three heroes didnt let up, they continued to fight against Neon with all their might, suffering from scratches and bites, slashes, and as they fought against the beastly Emperor they noticed that their blades were getting less effective than usual. As they fought against Neon, they heard the crackling of bones again, as large bone spikes came popping out of his back as he screeches. Neon then rolled into a ball and charged right at them. The three heroes did their best to dodge Neon's attacks as he rolled around and launches his spikes out from his back. Then six large spine like tendrils with stingers at the ends came out of his back and tried to sting them.

The three heroes blocked the stingers, only to get scrapped a bit from the stingers. The three heroes took their chances and grabbed two each of the tendrils and pulled their hardest and ripping out Neon's tendrils. Then Neon started to screech in pain, squirming around and started to vomit black ooze as dark energies started to swirl around him. The three heroes stood back as the dark energy formed a sphere around him and explodes into a shroud of dark mist. The three heroes looked through the dark mist to see that of a dark figure. This figure had the appearance of Neon Blacklight...but something was wrong, horribly wrong about him. He had black markings on his limbs and face, the color of his eyes were now a deep dark red instead of a mixture of red and blue. His boots and gauntlets was replaced with sharpened claws and taloned feet. His face had a gaunt mouthless feature as he slowly turned his head to look at them. "I am Dehganyol, Sin of Greed, Brother of Wrath."