[Completed] Legend of the Five Knights III: Song of Divine Wrath

Episode 26: The Lost Sheep

**Takeshi**

[Xeleria- Nine Petal Academy Island]

Aster and I exchanged punches as we flew around the sky like two meteors streaking across the night sky.

"Takeshi!" a voice called out as I broke away from Aster. It was the Celestial Queen herself.

"Sorry, Your Highness, but I'm sort of busy here!" I said before dodging an incoming fireball from Aster.

"Can you continue your fight in the abyss? Look around you, the abysmals are starting to coming in through the cracks you're creating."

I snuck a glance at the sky and saw a giant hand as it's about to slam against the island.

I gulped. We'd done that? Was Xeleria's protective barrier that fragile? We would have to strengthen it before the war proceeded into its next phase. That was, if we still had time. Hopefully Aster and my nephew's visit was only a test instead of the start of a full-fledged attack.

A barrier of light formed overhead as Her Highness raised her staff at it.

"Xeleria is going to break," she shouted. "It hasn't completely stabilized after our last battle here. I'll take care of that giant."

"Alright, but be careful. Those Titanus get stronger with the more 'world light' they absorb," I said as I ducked a wave of flames.

"I will," she said, flying up toward the titan.

I turned my full attention back to Aster. I reach my hand out and grabbed a hold of my step-mother's arm. "Let's go, 'mommy'. This is no place for us to fight."

Aster smirked. "You truly think you'll have the advantage in the abyss? Fine. Here me, all of the abysmals! Protect Calamity with all you have!"

"Calamity? If I'm not mistaken, that's what Selena referred to Conrad as."

"Indeed. He's your nephew," Aster said before warping the space around us.

I gasped and glanced around. Aster and I stood on top of a giant flat black rock which seemed to go on for miles and miles. It had been the biggest island in the strange universe known as 'Abyssia' that I had ever seen.

Red crystals danced around us like dandelion seeds in the wind.

"I'll show you what happens when you betray your own kind!" Aster screamed as she stomped her feet against the ground, causing flames to spurt out of the ground as if it had been a pool of flame.

"My own kind? You're forgetting that I'm also a Zionian. Either way, I would've ended up betraying my own kind," I said, avoiding the attack. She moved fast, kicking me into the ground with a down kick, shattering the entire island. The momentum that resulted from her kick forced me deeper into the dark realm until I caught myself with my wings.

I flew upward toward the largest chunk of the now disintegrated isle as I wiped the blood away from my lips.

Aster dashed toward me once more but I somersaulted in the liquid-like air. She paused and spun around, launching a punch. I responded with one of my own. The collision of ours fists annihilated the isle debris and everything else within a one-hundred-mile radius.

"You've grown strong, child. To rival us Rulers," Aster said as she swatted away the dust with a single swipe of her hand.

I raised both arms out and closed my wings to prevent myself from being swept away in the storm. She had this much power, yet she hadn't dared to use it before. What were the Rulers and my father planning?