A few hours had passed since their plan was made and a few slight adjustments were made to fine tune it, now confidence swirling through everyone they began to quickly and silently move towards his tower hoping to catch Ukzoc off guard instead of the other way around.
Kaiser and Deakon were back to about 70% of their fighting condition, But both were still extremely bruised, Zoephelia and Lynn were in peak fighting condition, their escape more peaceful than expected.
Slinking past each building and getting closer to the tower the Four of them began drawing their weapons and scanning the areas to make sure the ambush would go off without a hitch.
Kaiser motions for everyone to stop, his shadows detected something moving in the tower.
"Something doesn't feel right, I don't like this"
Zoephelia looking above them releases her wings and shoots into the sky.
Overlooking the courtyard everything is deathly still. Nothing is moving, not even the wind, everything is completely still, looking back towards everyone else, she decides to just fly back down.
"We're walking into a trap Kaiser, there's nothing happening, no movement, no sound, nothing. It's all too quiet"
Zoephelia looks at Lynn locking onto her eyes, before nodding to go ahead with the plan.
"ill lure him out then"
The group hides back into the shadows as they watch Lynn walk past the buildings, their silhouettes disappearing completely, standing in the middle of the Courtyard, her cloak lightly moving as the wind begins to pick up.
"I know you're out there Ukzoc, I know you better than anyone."
"Our father loved you, more than you ever could imagine, it would break his heart to see what you've done"
The wind begins picking up, becoming stronger as three bright streaks akin to shooting stars, screaming through the sky,each one crashing into the large courtyard one by one.
Lynn covers her face as rocks, and dirt are thrown into the air, the three silhouettes standing completely still front their landing spot, as the the dust settles, The Behemoths, step forward their appearance somewhat the same but attached to them were Tanks filled with a purple liquid, pulsing through tubes connected to them. Ukzoc himself had a canister attached to him but with two different fluids.
"What the hell did you do?"
The Behemoths double over in pain as the liquid pumps into their veins, their forms growing larger and more grotesque.
"I Gave them perfection"
Lynn looked at Ukzoc only to see a canister attached to his back, only the liquid was red and black, and swirling through him rapidly, his eyes pulsing between red and black.
"I Gave them Everything they needed to become perfect,the chance to evolve into something better, their pain will become their salvation"
Ukzoc steps away from the Behemoths as they are still down, slowly changing.
"You speak of father kindly, no matter you were the favorite no need to be perfect, no pressure, no consequences"
Ukzoc now face to face with Lynn raises his hand and cups her face to make her look up at him.
"Don't worry sister you won't die but, after I kill these children,I will rule this kingdom"
Lynn removes his hand gently before stepping back.
"I'm sorry brother but we'll make you see the error of your ways"
"try me"
In that instance Kaiser, Deakon and Zoephelia are in the air about to hit him with their weapons about to strike him, before they're knocked away, the three of them landing on their feet, the two Behemoths and Ukzoc facing the three of them.
"Children, how nice of you to join us!You've saved me time and you're going to be a good test opponent for my new Behemoths!"
Ukzoc snaps his fingers as the two Behemoths charge Deakon and Zoephelia, those two preparing to execute their plan.
Separating from each other they both take a Behemoth on to allow Kaiser and Lynn to fight Ukzoc.
Kaiser summons his shadow sword, grabbing it from the shadow of the moon, its blade glistening with the light of the moon.
Lynn closes her eyes before letting her magic manifest the magic runes appearing behind her, her hands holding magic circles.
Ukzoc just smiles and motions for them to charge him.
"I'll Frontline you cover my blind spots and remember the plan"
Kaiser charges Ukzoc, their blades clashing, Lynn circling looking for an opening, as the two begin their flurry of attacks, finally they break apart, she blasts Ukzoc with fire magic slightly burning him.
Ukzoc growls at Lynn before he gets kicked in the face by Kaiser sending him sliding backwards.
"Don't get distracted or I'll cut your head off"
Ukzoc just smirks and grabs his hair.
"Amusing considering it's a 2 on 1 but I digress"
Ukzoc pulls a whip from his hair, now welding a sword in his right hand and a whip in his left.
"Now let's begin the extermination"
Ukzoc grabs Lynn with his whip before throwing her at Kaiser who just slides under her and lunges his sword at his throat only to be met by his sword. The blades causing sparks to fly as the blades scrape against each other
Kaiser jumps back then conjures a shadow orb, throwing it to his side as it hovers, readying his sword he charges once again clashing blades, only this time the shadow orb begins launching small blasts knocking Ukzoc off balance.
Lynn now back on her feet creates fire tornadoes, throwing them around Kaiser and Ukzoc, trapping the both of them there.
Ukzoc still parrying Kaiser's sword dodges some of the orbs' blast but gets knocked back into the fire, burning his back badly.
"Goid strategy really,but your candle flames won't save him"
Ukzoc rushes Kaiser and swings down hard, breaking his guard then proceeding to punch him in the face sending him crashing into the flames, before he could recover from the flame he grabs him with his whip and pulls him to himself quickly then delivering a clothesline, causing Kaiser to flip end over end and drop his Shadow sword.
Ukzoc looks at the clock on his wrist, almost done counting down, a minute and a half left to go before it was time.
"Kaiser, Kaiser, Kaiser, you won't kill me like this" Ukzoc smiles as he slowly walks towards Kaiser, only to get hit by an explosion courtesy of Lynn.
"Sister why must you be so difficult"
Meanwhile with Deakon and Zoephelia their own battles raging on as they battle the Behemoths.
Zoephelia flies through the air with her spear as the beast is too slow to catch up, her lightning striking it again and again.
Flying up she dive bombs the behemoth spear ready to pierce only for the behemoth to grab her mid air and slam her into the ground, the ground cratering as it tries to stomp her head into the ground.
Thankfully Deakon had swooped in and stopped its foot from crushing her skull.
Zoephelia quickly flies back into the air, catching her breath, her spear still in the beast's hands.
"I didn't need your help, I had it under control" Zoephelia yelled out from the air
Deakon is now holding both Behemoths off as they try to crush him with their strength, as he begins sinking into the ground, the stone cracking under the pressure.
Zoephelia uses her lightning to speed boost and crashes into everyone knocking the Behemoths off of Deakon and freeing her spear from its clutches.
Deakon gets up and cracks his jaw back into place, and immediately it heals.
"Next time how about you make sure you hit them directly, I can't focus regenerating if I'm taking hits from you too"
Zoephelia nodded and twirled her spear before stabbing it into the ground.
The Behemoths now together, only their heads are facing the wrong direction, slowly their necks twist back a cracking sound as they face forward the right way.
"What the hell?, they didn't do that the last time we fought them, but at the same time, something feels off"
Deakon rushes the Behemoths his clawed hands, gashing deeply into their skin, Zoephelia with her spear impaled one, her holy lightning dancing around her spear, shocking it profusely.
Spinning around with the behemoth still stuck on her spear she tossed it into a building destroying it.
Deakon repeatedly slashing the other with his claws jumps onto its back grabbing its neck and pulling upward, tearing its head off, with a loud scream.
With its head now in his hands he tossed it to the side and gave a thumbs up to Zoephelia.
"This was way easier than the last two we fought, this doesn't make sense.." Deakon examines the body but strangely the canister in its back begins to activate pushing the liquid through its body.
"What the hell??"
Deakon jumps back to Zoephelia as they both get ready for what's happening.
The Behemoths body begins convulsing rapidly it's arms flailing and where its head would be a black substance grows out of it shaping into another head this time it looked similar to a dragon, no it started to entirely become a dragon, with its body congealing into the shape of a dragon.
Zoephelia summons lighting to strike it only for it to do nothing as the Behemoth continued it's gross "evolution"
"What the hell did he do to them?I've never seen something like this before!"
Deakon beside her becomes even angrier as he realized what Ukzoc did, he used his blood to make a dragonized mutation to the creature, and it pissed him off.
His features started to change,his horns and heavy tail, finally showing themselves as he couldn't concentrate on the concealing magic anymore, his rage overwhelming his sense of logic.
"How dare he do this, and to use my blood no less!"
Zoephelia simply steps back to let him get his anger out.
"I'll rip him to shreds and chew on his bones"
Deakon's horns now covered in fire charged the Behemoth that was slowly standing up aiming to put down the abomination quickly, he cocks his arm back covered in his dragon fire and connects squarely to the Behemoths jaw causing a large explosion and a quick flash to appear, sending dust rocks and the last remnants of the buildings flying in every direction.
Zoephelia stands in the air to avoid the destruction. She looks over to where the second Behemoth is but nothing has happened, the canister probably got pierced she thinks.
Looking towards Kaiser and Lynn as they battled Ukzoc it was a close fight but not a stalemate as Ukzoc had the slight upperhand, but they weren't making it easy for him at all.
She looks back at Deakon only to see his fist was caught by the Behemoth and they were in a struggle.
Zoephelia immediately dive bombs towards them both calling her spear to her hands as she nears them, throwing the spear, the Behemoth grabs it but that's what she wanted as she kicked it in the face only for it to not move an inch.
"What the-
The Behemoth stabs her in the stomach with her own spear piercing through her, Deakon still escaping its grip can only watch as blood pours from her wound.
"Damn it!Damn it!"
Deakon finally breaks free and gets its attention causing it to drop Zoephelia as she shakily tried to remove the spear from her stomach
Deakon sends a flurry of punches into the Behemoth's body, only for it to grab him by the head and slam him head first into the ground repeatedly.
Deakon lifts his head up only for it to get stomped down, the Abomination standing over him.
"Damn you, this isn't over yet"
Deakon breathes fire, melting the rock around him, allowing his head to escape from underneath its foot.
Zoephelia, still off to the side, steps back as she finally pulls the spear out of her gut. A loud sigh of relief as her own weapon isn't actively killing her.
Looking behind she spots Lynn and Kaiser not doing too much better as they get knocked towards her.
Ukzoc lands in front of them with a smile on his face as he slowly walks towards them.
"I see one of my creations has finally reached its perfect state…how glorious."
Deakon is still trading blows with the Behemoth the both of them landing heavy blows to each other.
"I see the other one didn't make it, poor thing I didn't expect it to die so easily…but Oh well I guess it's my turn now".
Ukzoc cast a quick spell, that then drains all the fluid from the canister in his back into himself completely his arms began convulsing as his legs became thicker and his body started to grow larger, horns sprouting from his forehead, and dragon like claws grow, his body finally stops growing as he stands at 10 feet tall
"Are you ready"
Ukzoc smiles before he slashes down at the three
To be continued..