The Beginning of the End
Ok so this chapter has a lot of P.O.V. switches. I am sorry if it gets a little bit confusing but sometimes we live with it sometimes we have panic attacks. Enjoy the chapter and leave a like on the story.
Zephyr's P.O.V.
It's time. Today is the day we strike our enemy Kreis, we may have been known as the lost hope, but I know that we have not lost hope, not yet, not ever.
"Hey Zephyr, you ready"? Dipper had walked in. "Now is the time we stop Kreis once and for all."
"Yeah, I think I'm ready, I'm just hoping I have the power my dad had."
"He never had powers, he had juvenile training. He knew how to defend and he never made the first move, he would always wait for them to attack and use that against his enemies."
"Well I don't have that kind of training so I'll just have to do it my way."
"We're all behind you, every step of the way."
As we grew closer to the battle sight we started getting ready for our final battle, the one to determine the fate of the universes.
We had arrived after a little bit of preparing, mostly mentally knowing this was the battle of our lives.
On the other side of the horizon I could see Kreis and her army marching over the hill. "My friends and family, this is the time where we fight for what's right. This is where we take back our homes and our old lives for most of us, the rest of us we take hold of the lives we deserve to live. We may die but we died for a cause, we died for the protection of all the people we met, it is our job to free them from slavery. And if you're with me you'll fight alongside me, for better or for worse. Let's go take back our freedom"!
A burst of applaud comes out even though there's only like seven to ten people around me. We face our gaze over to Kreis as she initiates a charge, we wait and we wait and we wait some more. Until the perfect time came and we charged back. Having the high ground worked out in our favor as we started beating several of the enemies before they could even touch us. It would be a hard war to win, though we still fought our hardest.
Dipper's P.O.V.
I grouped up with Mabel and we stood back to back in the middle of a giant crowd of monsters ready to strike us down. We fought in perfect sync as we ducked and weaved through their attacks and struck the rest of them down.
"Aaaaaahhhhhh"!
I turned around and saw that Mabel was struck by an arrow right through the heart, the last thing that I could call my family was gone and I couldn't do anything to stop it from happening. I was in rage before a bunch of arrows struck me as well, I took out a couple more of the enemies before I felt limp as well.
As I fell to my knees I looked up and saw Kreis just barely behind some blur. "Why are you doing this"?
Kreis's P.O.V.
"Why are you doing this"? the fallen Dipper Pines had asked me. I stooped down to his level and made it clear what I was going to do.
"I'm doing this because it's my destiny to take over the throne, I am the rightful owner, only me. And there is nothing you or any of your friends can do to stop me."
I took out my sword and cut his head off. As his head rolled away from his body I set his body on fire and walked over to his head and stomped on it crushing it into bits leaving nothing but blood in its tracks.
Zephyr's P.O.V.
I watched as Kreis brutally killed Dipper, I had lost too many people to watch anymore. "Kreis! I am your target! Come after me why don't you"!?
"With pleasure." She teleported in front of me and threw me through a couple of walls that were still standing. I slowly sat up and saw her walking slowly towards me. This was it, we had lost this easily. I couldn't avenge my father.
JJ's P.O.V.
(20 minutes before the battle)
"Ok, so right there is where the battle is going to take place." I was talking to Pacifica and reviewing the plan with her.
"And when your son is in trouble is when you're going to step in and fight Kreis"?
"Yes, this should hopefully set that spark to flames and give him the confidence to fight on and not give up."
"You're relying on hope for all of this? Oh my goodness."
"Will you relax, I am a man of plans, and seven out of ten times they work."
"But there's a three out of ten chance that it won't work."
"I'll take my chances."
After a little while the battle started, and it escalated quickly. Mabel died, Dipper died, and Pacifica was in tears.
"I'm sorry for your loss, he did not die in vain."
"I *sob* know. It's just that *sob* we never got the chance *sob* to say goodbye. *sob*"
"Don't worry, things will change. He'll be back." I muttered under my breath barely audible for even me to hear. "Zephyr's not doing so good, it's time."
Zephyr's P.O.V.
It was over, there was nothing I could do to stop Kreis now. All hope was lost. Than it hit me, all hope was lost, Lost Hope, that's why my father named the group that. He knew that we would slowly lose all hope to keep fighting, but I'm far too injured to keep fighting. I couldn't go on, but I didn't want to die like this.
"Are you done acting big and strong or are you ready to die"?
"Kreis, I am never ready to die."
"It was a rhetorical question." With that she rose her demonic sword getting ready to crash down on my mortal soul.
I clenched my eyes shut and began to grit my teeth and prepared for my death. I heard a clash of metal on metal instead of feeling metal on my flesh. I opened my eyes and looked up, the sight I saw was so burden lifting. I saw my dad in a sword push with Kreis.
"Dad? You're alive."
"Son, I need you to go make sure your sister is safe."
"Right away dad." I got up and pushed my way through the crowd of enemies killing more of them as I made my way to Hope. Making it to her I grabbed her hand and brought her to a safe area where no one would find us but still be able to watch from the sidelines. "Are you okay? Are you hurt"?
"No I'm fine Zephyr, thank you but why did we run"?
"Look who's fighting Kreis." As she looked over at the fight she saw dad easily breaking her guard time after time again slashing away and blocking every strike she threw at him.
"Is that dad"?
"Yes, it is. He's alive and we are winning this war."
JJ's P.O.V.
After Zephyr left it was officially the last battle I would have with Kreis, whether I win or lose it was the last one I would fight. "So you're alive. I thought I killed you a while back along with most of your loved ones. I guess I was mistaken, although I have no idea how you survived that blast I won't make the same mistake as last time."
"You won't need that chance to make sure I'm dead, because if I'm going down I'm taking you down with me."
"A bold statement for a death sentence."
"It wasn't a statement, it was a promise." I pulled my sword up to deflect an attack behind me due to her teleporting and striking from behind. "You're going to have to try harder than that to even touch me."
"Please, you're not that hard of an opponent to defeat, you're fighting style has weakened since the beginning. I have only gotten stronger."
"My fighting has weakened because I'm not fighting at my full strength." I pulled my headband over my eye and eye patch. "Now I'm fighting at my full strength. You don't stand a chance."
She blasted a couple of blasts at me but I just deflected them with my sword. Surprised she fired even more as I continued to block them with ease. She charged towards me and I sidestepped to the right tripping her as she zoomed by.
I continued to stand my ground as she got up and threw several strikes at me. Continuously moving away from the sword and its piercing edge. She swung from above and I swiftly blocked it with my sword.
"How are you doing this so easily"?
I pulled up my hand to her chest and explained, "It's not hard, all I have to do is have something to fight for." and two inch punched her several yards away. "This fight is over Kreis, you have lost. Surrender now and I will spare your life."
"I will never surrender, I will keep fighting until you grow tired to where I can defeat you easily."
"That won't happen so easily."
"What are you talking about"?
"What else would I have been doing in hiding? Graduating college and pursuing my dream? No, that didn't happen because of you, I've been training my respiratory system to where I can withstand fatigue for long periods of time."
She teleported behind me again but I grabbed her by her arm and pinned her against the ground. "I will defeat you, even if it means dying myself."
"It's over Kreis. You have lo..." A sharp pain pierces my back and I feel my heart beat weaken. I lift my headband and look at my stomach seeing a three-inch diameter spear sticking out of my gut covered in blood. I fall to my knees and collapse.
Zephyr's P.O.V.
I watched in horror as a spear pierced my dad's gut. When he fell to his knees and collapsed I could feel my blood boiling beneath my skin as my anger grew more and more. I ran over picked up my father's sword and charged at Kreis just for her to swing her sword and pierce the same place my father was hit.
I couldn't believe I let my anger get the better of me, now I'm going to die without doing anything to Kreis. And I forgot to make sure Hope wasn't following me. I turn around and a blur as I see Hope running over towards me.
Hope's P.O.V.
I was running as fast as I could to try and catch up to Zephyr but I was too slow, within an instant he was there he was killed. I continued running to him holding on to any hope that he was alive. I knelt next to him and held his head as he said his dying breaths. "Don't. Let. Her. End. Our. Line. Take. Back. Our. Freedom."
He closed his eyes and died in my arms, I began crying over the fact that I lost both my brother and my father in one day. Not only did I lose my father today but I lost him AGAIN today. I tried to pull myself together and try to at least fight back but nothing inside me was ignited to even stand up.
I sat there hopeless, unknowing of what I should do. Just looking at the lifeless bodies of my family, crying what seemed like a waterfall. Little did I know Kreis was stocking up on me.
"You're the daughter of the man I killed correct"?
"What's it to you." I said between sobs.
"Nothing. I'm laughing at the fact that you have some great power to defeat me, but to me you seem weak. Now I see there's no problem of defeating you."
Kreis's P.O.V.
"Just do it already."
"You really want to die that badly? I guess I have no choice." I brought my sword and swung up in a diagonal pattern, going from the her right hip all the way up to her left shoulder.
She collapsed after I stuck her. I bent down to tell her of what little hope there was left in the world. "This was all too easy. First your stupid resistance, then the world. And there was nothing you or your stupid family could have ever done about it."
Hope's P.O.V.
The words she said made me feel something, but I couldn't quite describe what it was. I felt willing to fight Kreis, I felt like I had to fight Kreis. I knew this was my time. Even if it means I bleed out here and now. I was doing this because of determination.
Third Person P.O.V.
Trembling within the breeze, I can feel my soul is shaking.
Even with a single blow, Everything that is comes undone.
Using every ounce of strength, just to keep my self from breaking
I, can only watch you walk, by...
Hope stands up, revealing her chest with not a single scratch on it. It was as if the wound healed instantly. She throws her arms out and screams to the sky as she is absorbed in a bright, red light.
Holding onto everything, Even when my body shatters,
I will never let you pass, Even if my tears run dry!
Beating as our hearts as one, Everyone I know is praying.
I will strike you down, Do or Die.
Kreis turned around as the light nearly blinded her trying to figure out what had happened to the left for dead little girl she had killed. As the bright light subsided Hope was standing tall, but she didn't have the same clothes she had on when the battle started.
She had some sort of armor with a red heart on the breastplate. She had a black gauntlet on each of her arms with another red heart on each of the dorsal sides of her hands. Her legs were covered in black leggings able to withstand most anything. Her head was exposed leaving no armor to protect her face, but her left eye color was changed from a normal chocolate brown to bright glowing red, with her other eye now blue.
The was she looked at Kreis made the dream demon a little worried but nonetheless excited to face a real challenge. She drew her sword and teleported behind her and slashed. Hope however did not move.
As the sword slashed against the metal leaving a gash through the armor and Hope's back, was no use as the wound and the armor began to regenerate making it seem like nothing ever happened.
At this point Kreis was frightened, it got even worse when Hope turned around and looked at her in the eyes not saying a word. Instead she rose her hand up and flicked Kreis a couple of yards back. Kreis struggled trying to stand up trying to comprehend what had just happened.
After finally standing up she called her kumu to her. "It's time, my pet. Let the enemies we have killed be the power we need to defeat this new worthy foe. Allow me to absorb you and we will destroy this enemy and take over the remaining universes we do not have control over."
With that the pink kumu flew into her mind and Kreis began to tremble, as she looked into the sky as a bright, white light shot into the air as she started to mutate into a formidable monster.
The light subsided and her appearance changed drastically. She had claws sticking out of her shoes and her arms were now long enough to touch the ground and walk at the same time. Her fingernails were also replaced with three inch claws able to rip through diamond. She grew about three feet taller putting her at 8' 2". Her face no longer looked like any human face instead it was that of a monster with sharp jagged teeth strong enough to bite through steel.
All in all she was ugly. Sit tight everybody, this battle just got ten times more exciting.
OH. MY. GOODNESS. This was so much fun to write, the transformations, the battling, all the death. Not so much death but you get the gist of it. Anyway I hope you liked this chapter and if you did, leave a like down below let's hit 1 like. 1 like and I kill everyone in the story. Just kidding I'm not going to do that. I've worked too hard to kill EVERYBODY off in the story. Stay tuned for the next chapter it will be maybe a little shorter than this chapter but it will be a little bit lengthy. You all are great and I hope you have a good day. See ya.
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