Final Battle

Xornoth's castle, location of the battle

The **Final Battle** (22 October 2021) was a battle between the free people of Empires against Emperor Joey and Xornoth. Those who fought against them include Scott of Rivendell, Wizard Gem, Lady Katherine, PearlescentMoon, and Shrub Berry.

## Events

### Preparation

Wizard Gem caught Xornoth abducting the dragon egg. Furious, Gem declared her hatred of Xornoth and how she would kill him after learning the most powerful type of magic possible. Gem harvested some vines for experimenting only to discover that inside each one was a few blocks of her color. Gem investigated further and went to Scott of Rivendell to try and find an ancient library. Along with Lady Katherine, they followed clues into the mountains of Rivendell where they found the Elven Library. They found various elvish storybooks, poetry, the *Book of Prophecies, Past & Future*, and an elvish spell book. Scott translated it to Gem, and they learned a powerful spell.

Meanwhile, Shrub Berry was led to Xornoth's castle by a strange wolf.

### Attack on Sausage and Shrub's kidnapping

Interrupting Emperor Joey's vengeance arc against Joel and Scott, Joey blacked out and woke up atop of a huge castle with Xornoth, who told him he was to kidnap Shrub as a blood sacrifice as well as kill Mythical Sausage for defecting.

Joey met up with Sausage, who was now free from Xornoth's mind control. Sausage attempted to change Joey's mind, but Joey's crown was controlling him. Joey threw a sleeping potion at Sausage and stabbed him to death. Then, he went to find Shrub in the Undergrove and abducted her with more sleeping potions. He left her in a cage under Xornoth's castle.

### Help comes

A wolf came to Gem, Scott and Katherine with a message from Shrub, telling them how she was trapped 'where the corruption was left.' The three agreed to split up and prepare for battle, to free Shrub, cast the spell on Xornoth, and end it all. Gem created the ingredients for the spell as well as the words they need to say, while Scott and Katherine prepared weapons and potions for fighting. Joined by PearlescentMoon, they headed to the mountains where they'd left the corruption.

### The final battle

Gem, Scott, Katherine, and Pearl came up on Xornoth's castle, as Emperor Joey came down to meet them. He set a ravager on them and rained flaming arrows down on them. The four were scattered as Joey set creature after creature after them.

Gem realized the crown on Joey's head was doing something and ordered the others to try and remove it, while she and Scott split off to help Shrub. Scott distracted Xornoth, while Gem set Shrub free before preparing for the spell. Joey killed Katherine and Pearl several times before Shrub joined the fight. Shrub knocked him down with powerful arrow shots until Katherine miraculously found her sword. She slew Joey, knocking the crown off his head.

Meanwhile, Gem and Scott managed to cast the spell and trap Xornoth in a circle. Joey returned confused and no longer blinded by the crown, and Xornoth begged him to be freed. The other four said the spell and Xornoth vanished in a flash of white light.

The light subsided, and Xornoth was trapped inside a red quartz crystal. The area appeared overgrown with life, the castle was crumbled, and the dragon egg was returned. The five proclaimed victory, whereas Joey had no memory of his evil deeds. They returned the crown to him to help mend his broken heart, but they did not accept his apology. Before splitting up, Scott proposed to hold a banquet with the other Empires to celebrate their freedom.

### Aftermath

After they parted ways, the monarchs took time to reflect on what happened and what to do.

Joey locked away the corrupted helmet and replaced it with his gold crown. He cleared up all of his corruption and planned to burn it all. He also made up with people such as Queen Lizzie.

Gem celebrated her great success in casting such a powerful and ancient spell. She returned the dragon egg to be incubated as a failsafe in case something went wrong, despite feeling like Xornoth was gone for good.

Pearl feared Xornoth may return and continued researching him and keeping up defenses. She also missed having an enemy to fight against and looked for people to spar with.

Scott placed the demonic crystal on a table next to his enchanted horns until he could build a better place to hide it. He wrote everybody invitations for the Rivendell Feast.

## Original videos

*This is a work in progress*
* (Scott)
* (Gem)
* (Joey)
* Ep. 37 (Sausage), "THE STRONGEST ALLIANCE & BAD DREAMS!!!"
* Ep. 20 (Shelby), "THIS IS THE END..."
* (Pearl)
* (Katherine)