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Mikedog12

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Chapter 30, The Last Battle

An armistice was declared between the armies in Rellekka and the soldiers and commanders rested between the lines making friends with what had only recently been enemies. Zooknock's family came to visit him, and Little Neddy was overcome with tears at the sight of his father. He wept openly until his father took him in his arms and said "Shh, my child, i have fought and killed and now you may live in a world of peace, for the errors of my generation have taught the world the foolishness of excessive war."
Love inspires war and it inspires peace. Because of this, love is the force of balance, so all who felt love in the world felt the forces of peace that spread from the battlefield. There was, however, one creature who did not feel love in the world. Glough was so consumed by holding onto his power he lost all the love in his heart and felt no peace. So when his soldiers deserted him to feast with the humans, Glough's hatred grew. Glough took his personal flyer to the center of the newfound peace, Zooknock's camp. He arrived there a few hours after Zooknock's family.
When Glough saw father and son playing and laughing together, he was overcome with a strange feeling. His heart had had no love for so long his brain couldn't register what he was feeling. His brain, having been pooled in hate for so long, knew no other emotion and channeled the intense feeling, of what should've been tender emotion at seeing the reunion of father and son, into cold hatred. Glough struck out, and with his poisonous dagger struck Neddy in the back of the head. Neddy dropped to the ground at his father's feet and died as his father collapsed on top of him, consumed in convulsive sobs. Zooknock felt pure unbridled hatred at Glough, but after seeing his own son die, he had no more urge for violence. The general of so many battles, killer of so many men, couldn't bring himself to kill the true evil in the world.

13-Oct-2007 02:15:53 - Last edited on 05-Sep-2010 22:15:23 by Mikedog12

Mikedog12

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30 cont'*
Zooknock prayed to Zamarock for vengence, since his own drive for violence was diminished at the sight of his youngest son's lifeless corpse.

Zamarock felt the violence and his power resurged from it, Saradomin's peace dominance started to shift. Guthix felt his moment coming and new what to do. Just as the the powers of hatred and peace balanced, when Guthix was at his strongest. He froze the balance in place. Guthix froze the world to preserve the balance.

He looked at the world and what had happened with both extreme peace and hatred and realized that it was a flawed world. He knew balance exsisted only in innocence and that any creature, self-thinking or non is not at balance and can not attain it.
He thought for a long time about it, dozens of years while the world remained in a frozen state. Guthix finally decided the best course of action was to start again. So, he wiped the world clean. He wiped away the living beings and for better or worse, all their experiences. When it was done he looked at Zamarock and Saradomin and saw their weakening powers. He told them that he would give them and the world a second chance in two-thousand years.

---------The End-----------

That my friends is how the story ends.

Thank you for following me through all these years. I'm sorry if the ending disappointed you or differed from what you expected, but i realized, like Guthix did in this story, that the best way to end a story is at the beginning. Even if it's the very beginning of the next story.

-Mikedog12

16-Oct-2007 20:43:50 - Last edited on 05-Sep-2010 22:31:11 by Mikedog12