Chapter 49
Leviathan sees Ark appearing in front of him and hears him:
"Even if by a miracle you manage to escape my 'Soul Space', then you are still finished, because Melody will become your new Master. Ha ha ha!"
Leviathan looks at him with angry eyes and starts to raise his soul aura higher and higher, then he says:
"Well i must say, you got really lucky escaping this time, but don't think that i will go down without a fight."
He goes toward Ark like a missile, but Ark just turns his hands into machine guns that fires soul bullets. When Leviathan sees how Ark can transform his soul so easily into any form he wants, he again thinks while dodging the bullets, 'I am triple screwed, Ark is also a Soul Master, he is ten times more powerful here, while i am ten times weaker, i won't last long like that, i need to do something fast.'
But before he manages to reach Ark, he stumbles a little bit because Melody attacks his consciousness and a few bullets hits him, now one of his legs is gone.
Ark stops firing and just watches him, then he sees how Leviathan starts shaking and his face turns pale. Then Ark starts smiling.
He takes Leviathan out of his Soul Space and watches him how he starts to lose control of Ashan body more and more, but not before he tries one last time to do some damages, he tries to unleash a wave of energy that could destroy everything around him for mile and miles, but Melody intervenes and stops him.
He looks towards Ark one last time and says:
"I didn't lose against you, that little girl made me lose. I will one day escape from her binding, and then i will have my revenge."
Then a black light gets out from Ashan body and flies towards the cube. And the next moment Melody is freed, and she looks towards the cube, then she says:
"Now you are mine, you will serve me for eternity."
Then she passes out, her energy and soul completely depleted, because of the herculean task she completed.
Then Ark smiles and he goes back to –100% of his powers, he looks at Terra and sees her how she also passes out because of the pain and the damages done to her.
Ark then raises his head up high and closes his eyes, the lesson he learned today, he won't forget it for the rest of his life.
Slowly he hears the buzz of the people around him, he knows that the hard part starts only now, he needs to think how to apologize to the little marshmallow and to Melody, because of his arrogance they had to be put through this hell, because of him thinking that he has everything under control in the center of his palm, they went through this pain.
This will be the greatest failure of Ark Ember. But then he hears a voice he looks back and sees Zmaug coming towards him, he hears:
"What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger."
Zmaug saw Ark's look and knew what was in his mind, he knows that Ark is on the brink of going towards a dark place, and if that were to happen, humanity would lose their greatest fighter, and the strongest OP character he ever saw, so he knows that now is a delicate time, Ark needs their support and help.
He again says to him:
"I know that is hard, but if you won't go past this like a man, then it means you are not a man."
Ark looks at Zmaug and starts laughing, his mind returning from the dark place. He says:
"Yeah, i guess you're right, i need to face everything head on, i need to fight to make it up to both of them, it doesn't matter how long is going to take, i will make it up to them."
Then he sees the other familiar faces around him smiling, he sees how Melody and Terra are taken by the medical team, he sees the people around him and thinks, 'I really need to up my game if i want to be a 'Protector'.
He knows that he can't play 'Hero' anymore like he used to when he gained his powers at the beginning, now he really needs to be someone who the people, friends, family, can rely on with their lives.
Then the big players go back to the City of Hope, where they contact the other cities, other planets, other galaxies. The people and robots are starting to rebuild and repair the damages done by the war.
Then Kyle's voice is heard again all over the planet, big holograms of him appears in all of the Empires.
"I am Kyle Storm and i have great news for all of you, WE WON. I am proud to announce that humans managed to beat and repel the invaders from the higher Dimension's, but not without loses, the Royals Planet was destroyed, that means that right now we have only us to manage the after match. And those that can, in the City of Hope, a warm meal and a temporary place to stay awaits you, and for the other Empires, help is coming soon from our city."
The holograms repeat the same message three more times, then they disappear. Some people who were hiding in the woods and some who were hiding in secret places, are rejoicing and they start to make the journey back to their cities or like most of them, to the City of Hope, making plans to actually move there.
Back at the City where the big players are, everyone are doing their thing in their own house.
Zmaug is giving orders to the dragons to take flight with the robots and help all the people they can find and bring them back to the city.
Kyle is managing the entire City to restore the order and to prepare for the incoming people, that is gonna be in the thousands, or maybe even in the hundreds of thousands.
Niobe is using every robot that remains in the Hunters University, together with Elion to help the people inside the city to find their loved ones, or to help the injured ones.
And then there is Leah that didn't leave Terra's side all the time, she and Ark are inside a special care unit that holds Melody and Terra inside, both are okay, only their energy is completely depleted, they need only some rest time. Next to Melody the cube floats slowly in the air, after the bonding, the cube now is a part of Melody, so everywhere she goes the cube follows.
And while the buzz of the people is heard like a army of ants doing their job, in a far and high Dimension a meeting is taking place.
Some men with gray beards and white sideburns, but black hair. That look dignified and with muscled bodies that look just like bodybuilders, dressed in white mixed with black suits that shows every muscle on their upper bodies, with black pants that are darker than the darkest night, they look like they don't have a lower body in the night. And a cape that reaches all the way to the ground on their back that the white and black patterns flow like water. Next to them a staff levitates that if the need arises, they can take it in a millisecond in their hands. There are ten men gathered around a round table made of white stone that looks like it glows white, and the men are sitting in black chairs that look like they absorb the light that reaches them.
One of the men says:
"It seems that my son is dead, and the cube is lost, Ark killed both of my children, i want him dead at any costs."
Then another answers:
"Raelion, we can't spare any of our resources or our people right now for this task. The task to keep the 'Void Monsters' at bay takes everything we have, if we make even one small mistake our Dimension will be lost in but a moment."
Then a third one says something:
"We know that you are upset and hurt, but wait just for a little while, until we manage to close the hole inside our Dimension Wall, after that you will have all the resources available to you, and maybe even more if our plan succeeds."
Then the one who is the oldest of them all, and the frailest looking one, with a head full of white hair, and a skinny body that looks more bones than flesh and a long beard that reaches all the way to his belly says something, when he speaks all turn quiet and subservient, the greatest and strongest of them look like children in front of their father, when they make a mistake and they know they will be punished, he says with a calm voice, but for the others is like thunder in their ears:
"A bounty will be put on Ark's head, anyone who manages to bring his head to us, will receive the right to use our 'Essence Pool' for a month."
When the people at the table hear what the 'Old One' says they immediately raises to their feet, and start pleading with the old man, saying things like, 'that is not possible' or 'that is too wasteful for those outsiders" or 'they don't deserve such a honor'. But the old man just raises his hand and says:
"That is final."