"I'm a goddess Kouta...do you think your thoughts are hidden from me when you're projecting them like pages from a book?"  The goddess spoke in a sadistic tone.<br/>"As for that mark..it's one of the five sacred marks...I believe that one represents Wisdom, though without the other four marks of Courage, Justice, Hope and Love it means nothing.  It's time for this to end."<br/>At this moment Valarinth's thoughts resounded throughout everyone in the area.<br/>'Tamyshia has the mark of Hope that she inherited from me and Ikaria possesses the mark of Love...I have kept them both safe for I knew this time would come someday.'<br/>"Damn you Valarinth, stop standing in my way!  You sealed me up with that hope of yours once before and look what it brought you?  That trick won't work again...you only won last time because of Fexiryn's coming of immortality.  Shi won't be able to help you this time, hir power is drained to such a degree that hir power belongs to me.  Besides...that's only three of the five sacred powers, the three of them might be more powerful, like you were a long time ago when hope belonged to you.  Let me tell you though, I haven't shown you a fraction of my powers.  Behold, my true form!"<br/><br/>The goddess screamed aloud as the whole area begun to twist and contort into a serpent like form with misplaced wings and tentacles all across it's form the chest wide open to reveal a stomach writhing with the bodies of the devoured students and teachers meshed into the open stomach walls.  Three more serpent like heads just above the stomach surrounding a twisted purple heart that pulsed rapidly.  The landscape was all gone, leaving only floating debris of random architecture within a sea of distorted space.  Beneath everyone, another mouth with sharpened teeth opened and closed waiting for someone to fall, the random debris floating towards the planet wide maw as everything in the area was affected by the immense distortion of power that made Tamyshia, Sinol and Kouta's power seem somewhat less in comparison.<br/><br/>Dark Valarinth flew up before the goddess and bowed before her.<br/>"Allow me to fight as your loyal servant of chaos."  He spoke, in mixed fear and awe of this unseen power.<br/>"You already serve me."  The goddesses voice resonated all around the surrounding spacial distortion.  Around this point the Virus started to awaken, seeing the form of the goddess and drawing all of her power into Kouta's maw as she released Valarinth and levitated her towards Sinol.<br/>"Fuse with me Sinol."  Valarinth whispered.  "I'll give you the extra boost of power you need."<br/>"Now you can swallow me Kouta.  I have read your mind and know you have the mark of courage."  The weakened Virus softly spoke up, her body completely drenched in saliva with longing for a freedom that would never be.  "Take my power and make sure Tamyshia lives to see a happy future...I liked experiencing what it was like to truly live and now within you I will experience what is is to truly die."<br/><br/>Fexiryn fell from the air as the ground vanished beneath hir.  Moonshadow dove down to retrieve hir as quick as he could, flying back up with hir on his back.<br/>"Take me to Zenith...he has something that may help the others, but not without a power boost.  It is his choice to help or fight against us, but I believe he will make the right choice...we just have to trust him."<br/>"I understand."  Moonshadow spoke, flying towards Zenith with Fexiryn standing upon his back.<br/>"Listen to me Zenith...everything you know will be lost if you don't help us now.  When I toyed with you I noticed something...a mark that according to the ancient texts represents Justice.  I know you probably hate me right now, but I'm giving myself to you in order to save this world.  Valarinth defeated the goddess of chaos with my help 27 years ago, but now my power is weakened and only the five sacred powers stand a chance of confronting her.  Take my power into you however you choose and I will leave the fate of everything up to you....I trust you will make the right choice.  Goodbye Moonshadow."  Shi said before jumping into Zenith's hand.<br/>"Goodbye mistress...and good luck Zenith, I believe you will make the right choice."  With that he flew to watch the battle from a safe distance knowing there was nothing he could really do to help.<br/><br/>Ikaria spoke to Sinala.  'Let us fuse our minds and souls into one for this battle, for I possess the mark of Love and if we cannot separate then I will allow you to possess dominance over our actions...this is the final battle against the goddess of chaos that Valarinth told me would someday revive itself and destroy our world...let's do our best and never forget each other no matter what the end result may be.'<br/><br/>((Thanks to Sinol for leaving the mark idea up to me...it gave me a decent way to bring the story to it's conclusion, whether it ends for the sake of good or for bad.  Hope everyone enjoys the final battle, with love from Elita Draconia. Xx))