Zion would feel the darkness swirling around his soul. It's power was intoxicating, swirling around his hand like a warm fire, one that kept him alive for a long time. However, he couldn't marvel at it's power- the Queen awaited. Now, it was time to take what was his. He jumped down from his spot and watched the undead he had arisen work with the Imperial Loyalist's he gathered. The Earth Elemental and Undead Dragon were being held back, no use wasting valuable tools of war for the final push. However, before his march upon the steps of his enemy was complete, he saw Azurnine being dragged towards the castle by Ankai and Sunkai.<br/><br/>Now, he didn't really care about the two demon birds, they were a copper a dozen demons, but these two were taking something that was his. He wouldn't have that.<br/><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ff99ff"><br/>
Zion charged forward to strike them, but Sunkai saw- Dropping Azurnine, leaving Ankai to struggle with her alone, he held up his hand as dark magic pinned Zion to the ground. "<b>Filthy Degenerate. You should be groveling at my master's feet for his forgiveness, for turning your back on him and serving that whore Neema!"</b></span><br/><br/>"<b>Shut.....your....mouth, Sunkai!"<br/>
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<span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ff99ff">" <i>'Shut your mouth, Sunkai!</i>' Hahaha! By Lord Maddox, you are pathetic. Get that from your mommy and daddy?"</span></b><br/><br/>Zion would start rising, but Azurnine could feel the dark magic holding him getting stronger. Sunkai was holding him down, but why wasn't he going down? "<b>You.....don't know anything about my parents.....let her go!"</b><br/><br/><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#ff99ff">"<b>Your right, but I look forward to getting to know you two soon....You two are going to be our new siblings." </b>Sunkai said, before finally exerting all his mouth to crush him. <b>"Right after we deal with <i>'you'"</i></b></span><br/><br/>Zion would growl, before getting back up, much to Sunkai's surprise, but Azurnine could feel him.....channel the darkness? "<b>Let her go.....SHE IS MINE!" </b>He yelled, before the darkness started swirling around him. Then.....much like Azurnine when she fought him, she saw pitch black flames envelope his body, only....he seemed in control of them! With a roar of rage, he broke the spell that captured him, and sent the two on the ground.<br/><br/>Azurnine's father had told her about this- When Zion's Rage became too great, he channeled the darkness in his soul into a usable form. While Azurnine used it to empower her spells, Zion used it to increase his physical strength and endurance to ungodly levels. The sheer power coming from his rage....Her father always spoke about this with fear, seeing what the darkness did to ZIon during these moments. It was when Zion was at his strongest.....and most uncontrollable. A Berserker's Fury.<br/><br/>Sunkai would try to strike Zion with his claws, but Zion would grab them and snap them off, causing Ankai to drop Azurnine because of the pain. Taking the claw, he started stabbing it repeatedly into Sunkai's stomach, before breaking his arm when he tried to strike again. As Sunkai was on the ground, holding his arm, Ankai tried to fly away, but Zion grabbed his leg. Slamming him on the ground, Azurnine would watch as Zion grabbed Ankai's wings and, with the most horrifiying flesh-ripping sound, tore them off his back, breaking the bones connecting them, before stomping on his back to crack his ribs. He would then finally lift Ankai up, grabbing both ends of his jaw, before he would rip them apart, ripping his lower jaw all the way down to the ribs, before finally dropping his body, both the demons dead.<br/><br/>Zion, now covered in their blood, just stood over Azurnine, like in one of her father's old stories. He, a human, just killed two demons barehanded.<br/><br/>Just what the hell<i>was </i>Zion?!<br/><br/>Stepping away from her, towards the castle, Zion pushed open the throne room doors. The guards still loyal to Mirielle formed a protective line around her, but Zion would just laugh. These would be simple, what was the challenge was the woman on the throne. "<b>Hello Mirielle....it has been too long." </b>He said, before taking one of the banners in the throne room and wiping his face off with it, quite opening mocking her. "<b>I am surprised, Mirielle, that you could've forgotten me and my curse so easily, after you stabbed me in the back, and left me for dead on the stake...."</b>He said, before turning towards her, drawing Retribution and walking ever closer towards her remaining guards and her throne.<br/><br/>"<b>You may have forgotten me, but I will </b><i><b>never </b></i><b>forget you. You cannot imagine the </b><i><b>depths </b></i><b>I would go to, to stay alive.....fueled by my singular desire to kill '</b><i><b>you'." </b></i>He said, before getting into a proper fighting stance, glaring towards her. Vengeance was going to be his. "<b>It's time to finish what you started.....Come to me, White Dragon Queen, and show me if you still have the spine left to fight!"</b>