Chapter 36 - The End Of Family (4) (The Final )

As Luna walked through the path she created using earth magic she stopped to cast Motherly call in order to track Raul. "Only two people? What's going on?" said Luna amid pants as she was still exhausted from her fight with Amana. When she finally reached Raul's position she was shocked beyond belief.

Raul's head lay a few metres away from where his body was and Clara was unconscious with a grin on her face. Blood was streaked across the earth walls and the ground was an ashy black colour, like it had been scotched by a raging fire. Luna wasn't the sentimental type but she had spent a lot of time with the man, he was one of the few that helped Lillian escape her family's clutches when they refused to let her marry Neel.

Understanding what had happened Luna picked up Raul's head and paced it next to his lying body. She crossed his arms like how they would do for kings when they were being buried and placed his sword on top of them. She raised her palm out to Raul and froze his body in an ice coffin "May Varis guide you in the next life" said Luna in prayer as she walked towards Clara's body.

She searched Clara for anything valuable she might have and found a life force rejuvenation potion. These types of potions were rare and where only given to high ranking officers, they had the power to restore a small fraction of one's life force however they would half the efficiency of one's breathing technique for a few hours. She didn't take her sword or equipment since all Church equipment could only be used by people who had divine essence in their bodies. After she made sure there was nothing else of value that she could use Luna held out her palm and Clara's unconscious body became frozen in ice, Luna then made a fist and the ice shattered into a million pieces making the room sparkle.

"I have to find the kids." realised Luna after remembering they were missing. She chanted a spell that made the earth below her rise and the earth above her move aside. When she reached the top she saw that Luca was breathing heavily and Amana held Arya in one hand and had frozen Ava till her neck. Luca was trying what best he could manage with just tier 4 ice magic, however this was a terrible match up for him as he was facing against someone known as a demigod in the element. Amana was surprised that he was at this level of ice magic at such a young age and had already decided to kill him before he could become someone worthy of the god title but she kept him alive simply to use as leverage to kill Luna.

Amana realised that Luna had arrived and created a small Ice spike pointing at Arya's neck. "Get down or I'll be forced to take his life Luna." said Amana nonchalantly. Luna could tell that Amana had used a breathing technique to regain some of her strength where as she was completely exhausted and out of life force. She couldn't win and she knew it so she had to think of a way to escape.

She walked slowly towards Luca faking surrender, as she approached Luca she asked "Can I hug my kids one last time?". "You've grown soft Luna, first you don't finish me off then this? Whatever just hurry it up." said Amana a bit annoyed by the old woman's final request, Amana first lost a battle against Luna and now discovered someone who was a bigger genius than she was so she wasn't in the best of moods. As Luna hugged Luca she whispered in his ear "Cast the air spell I thought you, Banshee's wail.". "But that's a tier 1 air spell what good will th-" Luna covered his mouth before he could continue and got on her knees in submission to Amana.

As Amana was about to shoot an ice blade at Luna a loud scream resounded through the air. Luca had cast Banshee's wail and the noise woke up many of the slumbering beasts of the forest, several howls could be heard as creatures began surrounding the group. Luna let out a grin and removed the life force potion she had taken from Clara's corpse.

She quickly drank it and a very small portion of her life force was replenished, however it was still not enough to win a fight against the demigod of ice while she had hostages. Luna used the beasts as a distraction and rushed for Arya, however as she was about to grab Arya from Amana's arms a wolf like beast caught the baby in its mouth and ran into the forest. A lot of other wolves followed the first attempting to snatch the prey it had caught.

Due to her failed attempt Amana could see what she was planning and threw ice blades at Luna. Luna ran as fast as she could towards Luca and teleported them away using dimensional magic. However two of the ice blades hit Luna in the back making her bleed profusely.

"With those two ice blades she is as good as dead. You will have to be taken to 'Ecclesia to be tried'" she said to Ava, as Ava began crying Amana touched an amulet on her arm "Open a portal I have a prisoner" she said authoritatively though the amulet and a portal to Ecclesia opened. Amana unfroze Ava and pushed her through the portal, as she walked through one of the woman on the other side asked "What of Clara?", "Most probably dead." replied Amana without a hint of sadness in her voice.

As Arya was hanging from a wolves mouth and drool covered his face he was in shock. He was still not over the fact that his parents might be dead but now both his siblings and Luna might be dead as well. Arya felt like this was punishment for failing both fathers in both of his lives so he accepted his fate. He didn't try using any magic to stop his doom, he was content with dying and joining both his fathers in the after life.

As the wolf looked for a safe place to eat his little snack a fire bolt hit him square on the side of his stomach. "Is that wolf carrying a baby?" said a woman as she ran towards Arya.. "I'm not going to die?" thought Arya as he passed out from emotional exhaustion.