Radiant Shadows 11: The Final Battle

Apparently, even though the Dark Lights had taken my bottomless bag, someone had grabbed it and gave it back to me. Lightning is both excited about fighting and freaking out about me not having enough stuff. In reality, she had given me 2 swords, 5 daggers, 10 health potions, and a bunch of food. Oh, and a longsword. And bottles of water. She's about to give me ANOTHER sword, but I stop her. "Lightning, you're my friend, and I know you care for me." I say, looking her right in the eyes. "But PLEASE STOP WITH ALL THIS STUFF!" She flinches, and nods. "Ok, you're right. I'm kind of just freaking out. We've never really fought them like this. It's mostly been breaking into the others base with internal sabotage and lots of death and injuries." Doesn't make much sense, since they have apparently been fighting for years, but ok.
Philo randomly breaks through a window, screaming "HEY YOU LOVEBIRDS! WE'RE ABOUT TO HEAD OUT SO IF YOU WANT TO FIGHT, YA BETTER HURRY UP!" She then jumps out the window again, leaving two big holes. I blush out of embarrassment, and Lighting sighs. "She is always breaking my window, but it's only if she's very excited." Lightning heads downstairs and out the back door. I follow her, and she mounts the horse from before. It looks at me, chewing some hay. It still has those creepy dead eyes. I get on behind her, and she gently strokes the side of the horse's neck. It starts trotting down the road and goes outside (outside the base) where everyone else is waiting. After everyone had gathered there (except a few people who stayed behind to watch people's pets) we head out and go at the area where Philo said the Dark Lights were going to be.
The first face I see is Diamanda. She's smirking, until she realizes that me and Lightning are on the same horse, and not hating each other. Diamanda looks absolutely ticked off. "HOW ARE YOU NOT MAD AT HER JAX!?" She screams. "SHE LIED TO YOU, REMEMBER!?" I decide to make her even more mad, and smile without answering. We line up and just stand there, staring down the other.
Angelic Demons...
VS...
Dark Lights.
I look around. I can see Moon holding potions, Kamaria holding an iron longsword with Galaxia holding two regular ones. The girl I think is Lia has extracted her claws and has a death glare on her face. Another person with who looks like either a demon or a dragon-wolf has an iron sword, but it seems extra sharp. I look down at myself. Lightning had made me wear a steel helmet, and I was using the Cosmos dagger. Finally, Philo makes a move. She teleports behind a random Human, and slices his head off, getting blood on her. The neck is spurting blood, while the face is trapped in an enteral look of surprise. This signals everyone else to start fighting. I jump off the horse, and a Human with blonde hair starts fighting me immediately. She took a swing to my neck, and I duck and kick her in the stomach.
She attempts to cut off my arm, but I move faster and slice at her legs, causing blood to spray onto my face and her to stumble and fall. She gets back up quickly and manages to cut my arm a bit. The only reason I wasn't severely bleeding was because I stab her directly through the stomach and she collapses. I go after another person - an Angel this time - who tried to attack Galaxia when she wasn't paying attention. I tackle him to the ground, and beat his face, causing him to spit blood and having his nose bleed. He eventually passes out, and I get up and someone else goes after me, punching my face until I kick it off me.
Few Hours Later... (sorry I suck at battle scenes, so I just skipped the majority of it)
I stab another Human through the mouth, and out the back of the head. He coughs blood for a few seconds, before I pick up a random nearby rock, and drop it on his head, spraying blood and bits of brain everywhere. I feel a kind of rush every single time I kill another person. Is this what murderers feel like when they kill someone? Actually, even worse, does this make me a murderer? Nah, this is a war. Of course I'm not a murderer, right? I take a mini break, long enough that I can recognize some of my friends, but short enough that I can snap back to fighting when, yet another Angel attacks me.
Moon is throwing immobilizing potions at the Dark Lights, allowing them to easily be killed. But when they surrounded him, he opened his folded black wings, and flew up. His wings were pitch black with white on the very tips of the feathers. An Angel yells "WHY ARE YOU ON THE ANGELIC DEMONS SIDE?! YOU SHOULD BE ON OUR SIDE!" Moon smirks and rips off his cape and wizard hat to reveal very fluffy-looking wolf ears and 7 tails. The Angel then coughs nervously, and awkwardly smiles. Moon disappears and reappears behind the now dead Angel. That "poor" Angel.
Lightning is fighting off Angels crawling towards her, and one of them dumps a bucket of water on her wings. Some of the brown paint washes off, showing bits of white. Lightning doesn't even flinch, and attacks back by spawning a bucket of lava and throws it back.
Galaxia and Kamaria and standing back to back and fighting off some of the stronger-looking ones. Kamaria throws a sword over her head, stabbing a Human in the eye.
The one I'm STILL not sure is Lia or not is... using magic to grow flowers? Odd timing. Someone charges at her, about to cut her cat ears off, when the wolf-dragon or wolf-demon suddenly rams into the person and starts beating the person to a pulp. Remind me to never tick her off, ok? PLEASE. Another person goes after Lia, but she looks up this time. Green magic surrounds her hands, and the rose bush she is growing suddenly flares up, and wraps around him, their thorns digging into his skin and making him bleed. What might be worse, is that the roses are white, but they absorb the blood and turn blood red. Mildly disgusting.
Philo is-
Wait a moment. I kick the Angel and throw a dagger into her skull, blood getting all over the dagger.
I look around and spot her about 10 meters away.
Fighting DIAMANDA.
They are fighting, and moving so quickly I can barely see them. Lightning stands next to me, watching them. I hide behind Lightning, half watching and half not watching. Then, I see blood fly into the air. I mentally cheer, until I realize whose blood it is.
.
.
.
It's Philo's.
She collapses to the ground, visibly wheezing. There's a giant cut from the left side of her hip to Philo's right shoulder. "PHILOOOOOOO!!!!!!" I scream, running over, and Lightning follows me but much faster. She very carefully picks Philo up and taking her away from Diamanda, and laying her on the ground a few meters away. Diamanda just stands there cruelly grinning, holding a sword with blood dripping off it onto the ground. Philo, who must have thought this was the end, grabs my arm. She pulls me closer, and whispers.
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I'm not sure why she spoke backwards, but I make her lie down and not speak. Moon teleports over, and starts digging through his backpack frantically. He grabs a golden melon, and smashes it on the ground. He puts it into the bottle, and hands it to me. "Why-" I ask, but he quickly gets up and attacks Diamanda who was sneaking up on us. I get it, and start shaking it. I check it, and it's lime green. I was about to give it to her, but I change my mind. I hand it over to Lightning. "You give it to her, I have something to do." I stand up, and run after Diamanda. She is about to attack Moon, but then I "fly" at her, and kick her down. Before Diamanda can react, I plunge my dagger into her stomach.
Diamanda looks at me directly in the eyes. Her turquoise ones staring into my brown ones. She manages to form a sentence. "I'm your mother Jax. You wouldn't kill your own mother, would you?" I could practically FEEL my eyes becoming darker and colder. I aggressively rip the dagger out of her stomach, and position it above her head. I send a smirk to her this time.
"...my mother died years ago. This will make no difference."
With that, I send the dagger deep into her head, killing Diamanda instantly.
Moon gasps.
Galaxia stares.
Kamaria starts smiling like crazy.
Lia looks up, and gasps loudly.
Alexa's face softens and she grins.
Lightning starts smiling and crying tears of joy.
It takes a few moments before everyone else is cheering and smiling. There's tears of joy everywhere you look, and Lightning runs up behind me and hugs me tightly. I hug her back, everyone else being too happy about the war being over to care. She grips my shirt/cloak, and she starts crying into my shoulder. I start crying too, but not because the war is over, but because I wish Philo was here to see it.
I hear a loud cough come from where Lightning was. I look up, and fresh tears pour from my face. Philo is balancing herself on her elbows and weakly smiling. "Those potions really work. Thanks for teaching Jax that Moon." I smile, and run and hug Philo. She hugs me back, and I help her up. She leans on me for support, but someone else - Lillie I think? - comes and assists her instead. A guy - Ray I'm pretty sure - helps too. Lightning comes up behind me, and I smile at her. Philo grins, and says "Well... personally, I say we deserve a party after all this." There's murmurs of agreement all around. Of course, there is no fight for peace without loss. Many of our allies have fallen, and of course, not everyone can be saved. They killed a lot of Hybrids, many Myths, and four dragons. While we should be mourning their deaths, we all somehow know that they would want us to celebrate the end of the war.
We bury them, and we all pray that they have found peace in the next world. They left a place torn apart by war and entered a place of beauty. When we get back to the base, we have a party two days later that lasted a week. But after, Lightning approaches me. She is staring at the ground, and looks very upset. "What is it Lightning?" I ask. She takes a deep breath. "Thank you... for everything you've done here. If you hadn't come to SuperNova when you did, I bet this war would have gone on for many, many, many more years, destroying the entire world completely, and we'd probably wipe each other out. So, we all thank you from the bottom of our hearts for fixing this war."
I smile. "Of course I helped you, I probably would've even if I had a choice to go home." Lightning looks even sadder at this. My smile changes to a frown. "Lightning... what is it?" She takes a deep breath, and spits it all out at once before collapsing into a fit of sobs.
"C-celest and S-s-s-s-shiva, they- they found a way to take you back home!"
=+*To Be Continued*+=
PS: I must apologize for 2 things:
1: If this seems rushed at all. I wanted to get the whole war scene over with in one chapter, but I have a feeling it ended up looking rushed even though it's kinda long. So, sorry if it does.
2: The fact I reversed a huge "speech" kinda thing done by Philo. It was extremely difficult, but I like it. I can read backwards, but if you can't, looks like you need a pen and paper. And if you figure it out, please don't ruin it and post it in the comments. Even if it's been a year and you think everyone has figured it out, I really don't want to just have it in the comments and ruin the kind of "surprise."
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