The world was nothing but white. A sharp, tearing light swallowed the chamber, drowning screams, metal, stone everything. Yul felt her feet leave the ground.Abi's fingers slipped from her shield. Pelon's bow shattered in the blast, the essence inside it spiraling upward like a dying comet.JS and NJ were thrown against the far wall hard enough to crack the stone.Snow, Alex, Rayan, and Sara were flung in the opposite direction, slamming into crumbling pillars.Agents were tossed like scraps of cloth in a hurricane and at the center of the stormDrago floated inches above the ground.Eyes are glowing gold and ash white.Breath froze in his throat.
Veins pulsing with an ancient power that didn't feel like it belonged in a human body.
He had no control.
No thought.
No awareness.
Only the voice.
"Awaken."
Its echo vibrated through the chamber like the heartbeat of an ancient titan.
THE SHATTERING
Cracks spiderwebbed across the entire ruin.
Broken sigils spun around Drago like orbiting moons, each one glowing brighter with every passing heartbeat.
Snow tried to stand."What… what is this?!"Alex pushed himself up, wiping blood from his jaw. "He's a damn bomb!"Rayan's voice shook. "No… not a bomb. A Fallen awakening."Sara's eyes widened with something like horror. "If he transforms this whole planet could"But she couldn't finish.The ground dropped.A massive portion of the chamber collapsed, sending everyone into a spiraling pit of dust and stone.Only Drago remained suspended, untouched.Yul screamed his name as she fell.
"DRAGOOOOO!"
THE DESCENT
Darkness swallowed them.Dust. Falling debris. A tunnel collapsing around their bodies.Pelon tried to grab Abi's hand but missed.JS twisted midair, catching NJ's wrist, slamming their boots into a jutting pillar to slow their fall.Abi slammed her shield into a stone ledge, stopping herself but cracking the edge of the shield.Yul spun, flipping and landing in a crouch on a slanted stone shelf.
They looked upward.Drago still floated above the collapsing chasm, glowing like a star in a void.Snow's voice echoed from somewhere deeper in the darkness:"Find him! Before he fully awakens!"AAG lights flickered on.Dust settled.The ruin had split into three massive levels, each a cavern of broken stone and ancient machinery.And Drago was rising Not falling.Rising upward through the air toward a swirling vortex that had appeared in the ceiling—a vortex shaped like an ancient sigil.
DRAGO'S MIND
Inside the light, Drago was somewhere else.
Floating.
Suspended.
Warm hands his mother's?
A deep voice his father's?
They were blurred silhouettes standing before him.
His mother spoke first, her voice trembling but strong.
"Drago… do not fear what you are."
His father reached out, pressing something into Drago's chest—
a symbol glowing like molten gold.
"But fear what they will try to make you become."
The two figures began to fade.
Drago reached out desperately. "No don't go! Where are you?! Who am I really?!"
Their voices layered into one.
"Wake up and remember."
BACK IN THE REAL WORLD
The vortex above Drago began to tear wider, sucking in dust and stone.
Lightning-like sigils danced along its edges.Yul stared upward, terror twisting her face."We have to reach him!"Abi stood shakily beside her, shield arm limp. "But how…?"Before anyone could answerA, new presence entered.A ripple of gray flame opened on the highest ledge.And Saryu's Bostrika stepped out once more. His obsidian armor emanated heat. His long, charred cloak trailed behind him like smoke. His eyes focused only on Drago.
JS whispered, "The hell… He's been here this whole time?"
Pelon knocked one of his last arrows.Yul moved in front of them. "Don't. He's too strong. I can feel it."Saryu's spoke without looking at them.
His voice was ancient.
A weapon.
A mountain's weight pressed into syllables.
"Child of Arkrion… you call to powers that sleep beneath worlds."The vortex cracked louder.Saryu's raised a hand."Awaken fully, and you will be judged."JS stepped forward in rage. "Back off! He hasn't done anything wrong!"Saryu's turned his head slightly."You misunderstand. I am not judging him."A beat of silence."I am judging all of you."
A NEW THREAT RISES
The vortex suddenly roared
BOOOOOOM
and Drago's glowing body jolted, convulsing.
Snow shouted from the opposite ledge:
"He's losing control!"
AAG agents raised shock lances.
Rayan charged his chain-spear.
Alex cracked his gauntlets, preparing to strike Drago the moment he fell.
Sara's eyes glowed icy blue. "If we don't sedate him now, he becomes a threat to the entire galaxy."
Yul's eyes burned with fury."Over my dead body."Abi slammed her shield to the ground.JS and NJ braced for battle.Pelon lifted his bow.And Snow's group prepared their attack.All while Saryu watched silently, measuring every soul in the room.
THE BATTLE FOR DRAGO'S BODY
Drago's body crashed into the shattered floor, golden ash erupting like a shockwave.Yul sprinted first."Move, MOVE!"Snow's group charged from the opposite side."Capture him!" Sara screamed, frost swirling around her hands.Before anyone reached him
BOOM...
The ground split open between the two groups, a jagged canyon dividing the battlefield.
The rumble shook the ruins, dust pouring from the ceiling like rain. Drago lay at the bottom of the crack, barely conscious, glowing faintly with symbols etched over his skin.
Both sides froze, then everything exploded into violence.
THE FIGHT BEGINS NJ vs Rayan — Chains Against IceRayan leaped forward first, chain-spear snapping from his hand with a crack of blue energy.NJ blocked with Heimdallr's axe form, sparks spraying.
Rayan's spear wrapped around the axe
Rayan grinned. "Got you."
NJ smirked. "No. You don't."
Heimdallr vanished from his hand and reappeared on Rayan's shoulder mid-swing.
THUNK
Rayan screamed, blood spraying as the axe dug deep.NJ swung againbut Sara froze his arm to the elbow with a blast of ice.
Abi vs Sara —Shield vs Frost Mage
Sara lunged at Drago's unconscious body, but Abi slammed into her with her shield, sending her skidding back.
Sara snarled. "You're in my way."
Abi planted her feet. "I won't let you hurt him."
Sara fired a barrage of ice shards.
Abi's shield absorbed them, glowing faintly with a golden warmth.
Sara's eyes widened. "What kind of shield?"
Abi roared, charging straight through the blizzard and tackling her into rubble.
JS and Pelon vs Alex Speed Against Brutality
Alex barreled forward like an armored rhino, gauntlets crackling with AAG tech.
Pelon fired a lightning-tipped arrow.Alex caught it midair and snapped it.
"Cute."JS flipped in behind him, Lancelot's lance slashing across Alex's chest.
The blow barely budged him.
Alex laughed, flexing. "You'll have to hit harder than"
Pelon fired again
This time at Alex's feet.
The arrow exploded.
Stone swallowed Alex's legs, pinning him.
JS leaped high, bringing the lance downbut Alex ripped free and uppercut JS, sending him flying across the chamber like a ragdoll.
Yul vs Snow —Fury vs Precision
Yul reached Drago just as Snow landed lightly on the other side of him.
Snow's tone was calm.Too calm.
"This doesn't have to be hard, Yul. Step aside."
Yul raised Fafnir, earth rumbling beneath her feet.
"You stabbed him in the back the second you sided with AAG."
Snow's smile faded.
"I didn't betray him. I did what had to be done. He's dangerous."
"And I don't care."
Snow lunged.
Yul swung the hammer.
Their strikes collided
BOOOOOM
The shockwave knocked everyone around them off their feet.
Snow slid back, expression darkening.
"You really are willing to die for him."
Yul's eyes blazed. "Every damn time."
SARYUS WATCHES
High above a broken ledge, Saryu's Bostrika stood unmoving.His cloak rippled in the ash-laden winds.His voice rumbled like distant thunder.
"Conflict reveals truth. Let us see who is worthy."
His eyes focused on Drago.Something ancient stirred behind his gaze
recognition.
DRAGO'S AWAKENING (INNER WORLD)
Inside the void of his consciousness, Drago stood on a mirror-like surface of black water.A massive shadow moved beneath the surface.Something colossal.Something old.Then it roseA giant silhouette shaped like a dragon made of stars and collapsing constellations.
Its voice echoed across eternity.
"You are not ready."
Drago stepped back, breath shaking. "Who are you?! What am I?!"
The creature's eyes became two burning suns.
"You are the Heir of Arkrion.
The last bridge between the Fallen… and extinction."
Drago's heart pounded.
"Then tell me what to do!"
The creature lowered its head, almost sorrowful.
"Wake and survive."
The creature dissolved into golden lightand Drago's body convulsed violently in the real world.
THE NEW FORM
Light burst from Drago's chest.Symbols wrapped around his arms.His eyes shot open glowing silver.His hair flickered like ash caught in firelight.He pushed himself up slowly…Every fighter froze, Snow, Saryu's.The ground trembled beneath him as he rose.He wasn't fully transformed.But he wasn't human at this moment either.Yul whispered, trembling, "Drago…?"His voice was layered—human and ancient overlapping.
"Stay back."
Snow's blade wavered. "What… what is this form?"
Saryu's tilted his head slightly.
"Incomplete. But impressive."
Drago clenched a fist…
…and the entire chamber cracked.
Saryu's opened a portal of gray flame behind him.Before stepping through, he spoke: "Child of Arkrion… your awakening has begun."He glanced at the battlefield below."Whether this world survives it… is now uncertain."With that, he vanished.
The ruins shook violently.Cracks raced up the walls.A second vortex ripped open in the ceiling.Everyone looked up as a deep, monstrous roar echoed from above—
"HE HAS AWAKENED! FIND HIM!"Multiple enormous shadows moved beyond the vortex.
Not AAG, not human,not Fallen, something new.Something hunting Drago.Yul tightened her grip on Fafnir. "Drago… what did you just call? "Drago looked up at the rippling sky.His glowing eyes widened in fear. "…something that should never have found me."
SARYUS BOSTRIKA — PRIVATE REPORT
(Side Perspective)
The portal sealed behind him with a hiss of gray fire, leaving the battlefield's echoing chaos far below and far away.
Saryu's stepped onto the smooth obsidian platform of the Sanctum of the Fallen, high above a void filled with drifting shards of broken constellations. The air here shimmered with ancient power, time itself bending in subtle waves.
At the center of the sanctum, five towering silhouettes waited.
Their forms were hidden in shadowed cloaks of cosmic dust, faces unseen — only their eyes glowed like dying stars.
The Fallen Council.
A voice echoed, deep and layered:
"You have returned early, Saryu's."
"What have you observed of the Arkrion Heir?"
Saryu's bowed his head; fist pressed to his chest in respect.
"More than expected less than hoped."
He stepped forward.
"What I witnessed… was an awakening."
Low murmurs rumbled like shifting tectonic plates.
Saryu's continued:
"The prophecy was not exaggerated. The Heir is alive — fractured, unstable, but undeniably ascending. His power reacted to pressure from both human aggression and emotional fracture."One of the council members leaned forward, their voice sharp.
"Did he exhibit the Mark?"
Saryu paused.
Then nodded once.
"Yes."
Silence.
Heavy.
Suffocating.
Another councilor whispered:
"Then the seal is weakening faster than we feared."
Saryu clenched his jaw.
"That is not all."
The air tightened even the void outside seemed to listen.
THE ENTITY
Saryu opened his palm.A holographic projection of the battle appeared — Drago glowing, the chamber cracking, the human factions fighting around him.But the projection shifted—The moment the vortex tore open in the sky.The moment the shadow screamed.At that moment the world trembled.The Fallen Council leaned in.
"That… is not one of ours."
"Nor human."
"Nor creature."
Saryu narrowed his eyes.
"It is an Entity. One of the Forgotten Legion."
The temperature dropped instantly.
Even the council ancient, immortal beings fell into solemn silence.
One whispered:
"How did it find him?"
Saryu replied:
"His awakening… echoed. Across realms. Across seals. Across whatever remains of the Nullspace."
He closed his hand, ending the projection.
"They heard him."
THE COUNCIL'S RESPONSE
The leader finally spoke, voice like a collapsing star:
"We must intervene."
Another countered:
"If we act too soon, the lesser races will panic."
A third growled:
"And if we act too late, the Heir dies, and the Prophecy consumes us all."
Saryu raised his head.
"I request permission to personally watch over him."
The leader stared at him with burning eyes.
"Why? You, of all Fallen, know the danger of his lineage."
Saryu responded without hesitation:
"Because he is not his father.
And because… he hesitated to kill."
The murmurs deepenedone councilor asked quietly:
"Do you believe he can be guided?"
Saryu exhaled slowly.
"I believe he can be saved."
The leader's cloak rose in a swirl of cosmic dust.
"Very well, Saryu Bostrika."
"Guard the Heir."
"Observe the Entity."
"And if the boy loses control…"
The void trembled.
"…end him."
Saryu bowed deeply, though his eyes hardened with defiance.
"I will protect him."
THE SKY CRACKS
Suddenly—
The entire sanctum shuddered.
A ripple tore through the void ceiling like claws dragging across reality.
Saryu snapped his gaze upward.
The council gasped.
Above them, in the sky of their own plane—
A SECOND RIFT WAS FORMING.
Not in Drago's world.
Not on the battlefield.
Herein the Fallen world.The leader whispered, horrified:"It followed him… here."Saryu drew his blade. "No…It followed his awakening."
The rift widened, letting out the same monstrous roar from the battlefield.The council stood, cloaks billowing in cosmic winds.
"THE ENTITY HAS BREACHED OUR REALM!"
Saryu tightened his grip A single thought slicing through him:
Drago… what have you awoken?