Within the two days ruko was gone lots of monsters simply ran away from heaven's Haven or went into hiding as a pair of elder dragons teostra and lunastra had awoken from their slumber deep within the caverns and their mere presence caused an overwhelming heat to sweep over the area azural was barely affected by the heat if anything it made him a little bit stronger.
But as for the inhabitants of emberclutch they were treated deep down into the roots of the tree as for azural and tensei they stayed above to make sure teostra and lunastra did not break through to the forest they mainly stayed on the plataue or the crystal quarry but for some reason teostra and lunastra Awakening caused some tremors understand heaven's Haven one time teostra strayed a bit too close to the forest and they barely managed to fend him off.
As lunastra returned to the hidden mineshaft within the quarry as her and teostra recently mated and she returned to lay her singular egg meanwhile just as lunastra entered the hidden mineshaft ruko and Jira flew over the crystal quarry ruko spotted him first teostra basking on an cliffs edges now if they were fully grown teostra would stand and not even a chance as an young adult Golden rathian could easily dispatch of kushala daora with a relative ease.
But both of them are still quite young so taking on an fully grown experienced elder dragon with what little experience they have would be suicide alone that is with jira they have a 50% chance of winning but maybe they can increase the odds in their favor as ruko made a u-turn.
He tucked his wings in as he went into a dive he threw both his talons out as he opened his wings teostra wasn't paying attention as teostra glanced to the side its eyes opened in Surprise as ruko talons dug deeply into it's carapace knocking it off the cliff onto the semi flat plateau below as teostra roared an Massive 6 claw shaped gashes in its manticore like carapace as teostra was distracted suddenly massive footsteps came charging from behind as teostra turned around.
Jira was charging at full speed just as she was going for a head but she did a fake out putting all of her momentum in body mass into her tail as it slammed into teostra stomach with a massive force it cracked teostra carapace as one of her loosely growing spikes managed to get into the cracks injecting teostra with lethal poison it would take some time for the poison to take effect.
Way to get it to act faster would to be forcing teostra to move around suddenly embers and fire started to gather around the manticore like monster as it made a roar into the sky a explosion wearing out causing the cliff to break sending ruko covered in rocks in a rockslide Jira tried to block the explosion with her wings but it ended up melting some of her scales.
While ruko was covered in rocks and struggling Jira who was about an year or 2 older than ruko had greater mass and experience as she unleashed a fake-out fireball that seemed to miss in reality it hit a small rock formation above teostra as the fireball exploded this rock formation collapsed on the elder dragon as teostra was struggling slightly to get up from the rubble.
Jira charged a full power fireball as her flames turned blue she gained a rage boost from seeing ruko hurt allowing her inferno sac to go past its normal limits as her flames started glowing slightly she unleashed the blazing fireball just as teostra freed it's self the blazing ball of blue fire slammed into the elder dragon's face creating a large concussive explosion of blazing blue flames.
As Jira lowered her head that fireball exhausted her underdeveloped inferno sac completely at most she had one more fireball barrage in her before she needed to recover her flames teostra paw slammed out of the blazing blue flames as it's fur was barely singed it looked unimpressed as teostra got ready to unleash a devastating explosion it stopped.
As ruko managed to free himself from the rubble as he flew up up on the elder dragon of flames and explosions and slashed teostra across the eye with his talons before backing off as the embodimental flames got ready to unleash another explosion attack the paralysis kicked in as ruko opened his mouth about to unleash a blazing fireball on the elder dragon.
He immediately turned towards the cliff and unleashed his blast of fire as it slammed into the cliffside a massive rock slide began as the paralysis wore off teostra was engulfed in a wave of rocks and boulders ruko walked up to Jira and as she opened her mouth ruko lit an flame in his mouth as the technically kissed ruko started projecting his flames into her mouth.
And Jira swallowed them down as fire converted into energy which refilled her inferno sac suddenly a massive explosion rang out behind them as flaming rocks flew through the skies majority of them were vaporized upon initial explosion within the absolute burst of destruction was teostra who had grown tired of games he felt it was beneath him.
As teostra made a ramming charge ruko opened his mouth in a jet stream of blue flames flew forward pushing back the elder dragon ever so slightly then Jira joined in unleashing a torrent of flames as well as their flames mixed the blaze of fire got stronger pushing the elder dragon back more.
Eventually teostra charge was halted but that didn't stop the prideful manticore from unleashing a fireball mixed with blast element ruko got ready to retaliate by unleashing a blue fireball as the two balls of fire met in the middle they clashed and exploded sending both teams flying back.
As ruko got up he shook his body a lot of his lose and some non-lose scales flying off Jira got her wings burned and teostra barely had an gash on his carapace suddenly ruko Dug his talons deep into the Rocky ground as an flame automatically lit in his throat.
He let out the most fearsome roar anyone could ever hear ruko:"RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAGHHHHHHH!!!" A massive shockwave rang out all over heaven's Haven in whatever remained of the water lagiacrus looked in the direction of the sound and so did glavenus and vice(white mane anjanath) but unlike the other two he roared back ruko roarhead traveled through the entire heaven's Haven including the god tree as azural who was originally sleeping his eyes snapped open in a fury.
He roared back as tensei also understood it was a cry for help mounted upon his trusty friend as azural shot into the sky back with jira and ruko they held their ground teostra got ready to absolutely obliterate them suddenly something crashed into the ground next to Jira at mach speed it was azural already in his enraged State and upon his back was tensei with his trusty bow and arrows.
And then the new battle had to began as tensei unleashed an volley of arrows teostra created an explosion vaporizing the arrows only to get hit with a triple fireball attack from Jira ruko and azural as teostra turned his attention to the trio tensei activated his grappling hook and grappled onto the back of the elder dragon pulling out his knife he started stabbing the elder dragon repeatedly in the back.
Causing teostra to thrash around even going up in the air trying to shake off his mounter ruko took this chance launched a full power fireball that was so hot it turned white directly at teostra chest right where the crack was in his carapace just in time too as tensei jumped off of teostra and fired a rusty dragonator arrow in the elder dragon's back what was attached to the dragonator was an bundle of explosives that exploded as soon as the match went out.
And at that exact same moment the fireball also hit the elder dragon teostra causing a double explosion as teostra fell out of the sky and crashed into the ground it had multiple parts of its body broken one of its horns was destroyed in The clash and its tail completely obliterated from the dual explosion there were massive scars all over its body as well.
Just as the group thought they won teostra rose and decided if it could not win then they certainly could not as it started charging another explosion just as it rain out of energy it used some of its own bioenergetic life force the explosion making it four times as strong then it should have been teostra made a fearsome lionic roar as a burst of heat followed by three explosions rang across the area azural shielded his rider with all of his might.
As the group all went flying in different directions Jira slammed into a cliff and was covered in rubble azural and tensei went flying who knows how far as for ruko he barely remained standing nearly the entirety of his scales melted off from the overwhelming heat now underneath him was just a puddle of molten silver teostra still had enough energy for one last clash as it charged up the greatest fireball it could ever muster.
Ruko did the same opening his mouth he used all the energy and enzymes within his inferno sac++ to create the greatest fireball of all time the flames were so hot they turned white and started glowing as both parties unleashed their final attacks ruko fireball dragged across the ground melting everything in its path as the two attacks slammed into each other trying to overpower the other.
Azural barely made it back as he he witnessed both of the attacks cancel each other out ruko was at his wits end as he collapsed ready to finally join the afterlife for real this time he was suddenly thrown into the past.
He was inside one of his memories his mother and his father's voice "be strong little man always be strong" his mother was a kickboxer and his dad was a military soldier during one of her matches he got a VIP seat for being her son but her cancer hit her right in the middle of the match she was low on sugar but she continued to fight it wasn't until she noticed him in the VIP section that she started fighting more ferociously.
And in the final match she dropped her opponent in a single kick before she passed out as for his dad his father from what the military had told him back then was the only one of his squadron remaining he had two M16's and 8 magazines and in the end he kept fighting he killed 65 people in 2 hours when they found his body on the battlefield he was missing an arm had an knife in his mouth and 13 bullet holes in his body won't even hit him through the heart.
Has he remembered all of these times it suddenly clicked for him what they said might be strong all of his life before his reincarnation he never understood what it meant be strong as in protect yourself or be strong spiritually now he understands what they meant don't be strong for yourself be strong to inspire others to inspire those you care about and your future generations so that when they look back on you even after your long gone they'll remember you.
Not because you did something legendary but because you stood in the face of absolute defeat and remained strong and gracious he finally understood and like clockwork his biology went into overtime just as teostra was about to leave ruko rose up as teostra turned around clearly surprised ruko flapped his wings with unprecedented ferocity hitting the elder dragon with a flying dropkick sending teostra tumbling away.
Suddenly he shot up into the stratosphere the air was thin here he couldn't stay up here forever suddenly he tucked his wings in and hit the ultimate dive bomb as he dived straight towards the ground he opened his wings and threw his talon out as a veil of air covered his body like he was a speeding bullet immediately is very claw caught fire as you continue to descend towards his confused opponent it went from Orange to yellow to Blue and it barely turned white as teostra looked up I noticed it's attacker coming in at mach speed.
Like it was a kamikaze attack got ready to move but azural returned as he unleashed a fireball that slammed into the elder dragon's side causing it to turn its attention towards its attacker azural stood tall and proud and made a final roar before collapsing and absolute exhaustion suddenly teostra remembered something as it looked up to the sky an talon covered in blue flames was about to touch its head.
.....BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUOOOOMMMMMMMMM an explosion so massive it was like getting hit with eight nuclear bombs at a time rang out across all of heaven's Haven and beyond creating massive earthquakes entire cliffside's crumbled in rock slides for miles as the wave of fire energy spread across the area lunastra felt the tremors and became interested to investigate.
Meanwhile on the battlefield everything was gone the entire plateau turned into a magmatic wasteland from an singular attack Jira tensei and azural we're barely in the attack radius just an inch further and they would have been obliterated along with the area on the devastated corpse of the elder dragon an sliver rathalos roared victoriously something was different ruko eyes turned an deep sapphire blue and his pupils turned amethyst purple as ruko looked upon his defeated foe they were perfectly cooked.
He began to rummage through their remains as he found exactly what he was looking for the rarest gemstone of them all the bio Crystal only found an elder dragons cluster of bioenergy that is hardened over the years consuming it could do unprecedented things to regular monsters for elder dragons it would just make them stronger.
As lunastra appeared she saw her dead mate and immediately became enraged as she looked at who did this what she saw terrified even the elder dragon to her core she didn't see a silver rathalos she saw a demon incarnate and she looked past into his eyes to his very soul what she saw was a being even worse than Fatalis an devil God's worst creation something beyond comprehension immediately the wiser teostra counterpart fled terrified for her life.
As ruko swallowed the bio energy Crystal he knew it was going to take a while for the bioenergy Crystal to meltdown in his stomach in the meantime he needed some new armor his scales had melted luckily the crystal African consumption regrew all of his scales in a few moments his fight with teostra revealed a bunch of Ruby nodes.
Pulling them out of the ground he attached them to his back and melted them down buildings an second layer over his original scales he did this to his entire body except for his head and then he collapsed from overwhelming exhaustion and went into an overwhelmingly deep hibernation.