Nine stars shining tonight

The truth had been lied, hearts had been broken. The world is at the verge of destruction, or perhaps beginning a new? Will a hero emerge? Or will a greater evil be born?

It was too much for Krion to handle...tired and heart broken...he stepped out of the gate of the resting place and beholds the slaughter of demons. The demon that saved him a while ago seemed unstoppable, slashing his way towards the lord of hell as if the demons surrounding him were nothing more but paper. Finally, clashing his sword against the lord of hell's staff...he was pushed back by a giant wave of black energy.
"Heh...you haven't lost your touch at all..." the demon grinned as he recovered from the wave and continued his slaughtering of demons.
"Release his soul Ledius...your not going to last." the lord of death taunted as he stretched out his giant devil wings and took flight towards Ledius.
"You want his soul...come and get it!" Ledius taunted back as he took flight as well.
The two demons quickly clashed against each other, releasing a very strong wave of energy. The demons near them were quickly wiped out as with each clash of Ledius's sword and the lord of death's staff...a wave of dark energy would be released.
As Krion saw the two demons clashed their forces together, and the slaughtering of the demons all together...he thought to himself,
'How senseless...what's the point of all of this...they're both demons after all, what's the point of slaughtering each other? This senseless fighting...so what if we revolt against heaven or hell? So what if we destroy both? It's not as if...we can find comfort this way...so what's the point of all this fighting!'
"To forgive...to let go..." he whispered to himself as from his back sprout a pair of black angel wings, his arms then merged with his weapons forming twin giant blades sprouting out from each of his arm.
"A god...I am. A demon...I am. End this...I will!" Krion shouted as he took flight into the sky. Rena was right...he should learn to let go and forgive. There's no point in holding on so foolishly anymore...after all, it feels better this way.

"I won't cry again..." he whispered as he clashed his swords inbetween the two approaching demon's and with another swing, sent them crashing into another bunch of demons.

"Awoken I see? So...have you chosen your path, Krion Lockheart?" Ledius asked as he slayed one of the last few demons.

"I...I may not be certain what path I'm still going on, but one thing is very clear to me now. And that is...to stop this madness!" Krion replied as the last of the demons were slained. All that was left was the lord of death himself.

"I'm afraid it won't end as easily as you think heretic! Reveal yourselves my minions of the night skies!" he called out as soon thousands of devils began emerging from nowhere. They filled the chamber till there was even little space to move.

As Krion exchanged blows with the devils, he realized that he was totally out matched. The overwhelming numbers never seem to end, with each devil slayed...another returns to take it's place. And as the struggle raged on, Krion was stabbed by their claws countless of times till almost his whole body was covered with his own blood.

All of a sudden, an enormous blast of energy cleared a path to escape...
"Go...this is my spotlight." Ledius commanded as he sent another blast of energy which blasted Krion towards the tunnel to escape.

Shocked and speechless, Krion took one last look at his father and shouted to him, "Don't die on me... We have much to discuss."

"Indeed we do..."

However, as Krion escaped through the tunnel...the devils continued to flood. No matter how much ground Krion covered, the devils seem to catch up just as quickly. With each swift turn and dodge, Krion felt as if his body and mind were tearing apart...

"Struggling...aimlessly struggling."

"Heh...guess you were right, Hien...life is but just an aimless struggle when we are lack of a purpose." he whispered as he remembered the quote his brother always used to say.

"But...oddly...I really...really don't feel like giving up!"

Back at the chamber, Ledius was beholding his new army. With his sword, he was ready to slay every single devil and capture their spirit. However, to do this effectively...it was time to find his accomplices. With that he followed the same tunnel out while slaying as many devils as he could.

As the chase was on with the devils and anything in their way, Kenyin and Hien had yet settled their battle.
"You better leave...I can hear them...devils are approaching." Kenyin suggested as he turned his back to face the direction where the devils were coming.
"How many?" Hien asked as he wasn't ready to just run away and leave their battle unfinished.
"More then you can imagine. Just look straight ahead and you'll understand." Kenyin replied as he pointed his finger towards an approaching swarm of devils on the tail of another demon with black angel wings.

"Krion...guess it's time to leave." Hien quickly noticed before he told Reina to reach out her hand to Krion.

"Hey...aren't you leaving as well?" Reina asked, as she reached out her hand.

"No...I'm waiting for someone." Kenyin replied as he drew his sword and extended it to the fullest before slashing the approaching devils.

Krion barely dodging the sword made of light, grabbed hold of Hien's and Reina's hand before warning them.

"Brace yourself...this isn't going to be easy."

With that, Krion found an opening upwards and quickly took it. As they continued to fly upwards, they saw another guy dressed in white with a large collar covering his mouth falling downwards. He quickly drew his odd looking twin bladed spear, but just as Krion and the others thought he was there to stop them. He fell passed them and blasted the approaching devils with a wave of energy. Landing safetly, he ran towards where Kenyin was.
Seeing the approaching spear master, and another approaching devil winged demon. He said to the both of them, "Your both late."

"Hah...sorry, I couldn't fall fast enough." the one in white pleaded as he stabbed the ground with his spear.

"No matter...none shall escape." Ledius commented as he too stabbed the ground next to the spear.

"Lets began then, gentlemen...charge your energy!" Kenyin joked as he too stabbed his sword next to them.

As they chanted and channeled their life force into the three weapons, continuous waves of energy began spreading around them. The glow becoming brighter and brighter with each second till finally, it exploded. Sending a tremendous force of light energy throughout hell.

And just as Krion and the others got out of hell from the giant hole which emerged days ago, a giant surge of light energy was blasted out from it. Heading upwards towards the orange sky which slowly turned into night, revealing nine stars shining brightly tonight.

And just as the surge of light energy ended, Ledius and his accomplices stood at the very edge of the same hole...reciting the words,

"Souls of sorrow, souls of anger. Souls of hell...we stand here before you in need of your strength, as your souls now belongs to us. Fight for us! And you shall be freed! Against the heavens, against the gods. Be part of the greatest uprising! And end the day so called Judgement."

As Hien saw the three...he quickly noticed that one of them was him...the one he had been looking for...

"Father..."

However before Hien could act, Reina grabbed his hand and said to him, "Now's not the time...Krion's seriously injured...we won't be their match."

Hesitating, Hien carried Krion on his back and made his way towards a nearby hospital.