Agi and his friends who had been in the treatment tent were startled when they felt an aura from someone. They felt it was a Deorc Star user approaching their treatment camp. Since Kairi arrived with a severe injury to his neck, Agi, Aquarius and Pisces had to leave their wounded soldiers to treat him first. They handed over the task of treating them to their medics.
Dark Hartina, who was injured with both hands cut off, got up from the ground. Beside him were Rafiz and their friends. They all had wounds on their bodies but they ignored them while their eyes were at one of the tents where Kairi was treated.
All their faces show anguish and fear. Their hearts also beat wildly in their chest, waiting for Agi, Pisces and Aquarius news about Kairi's situation. They hope Kairi stays alive. They can't lose him yet.
Leo, Pegasus, Auriga, Aquila, Gemini, Orion, Canis, Centaurus, Cancer, Eridanus, Libra, and Cygnus, were not there. They were rescuing their soldiers from the battlefield. Both sides decided to stop the war after they saw Revioryx change into a monster and attack all of them.
Currently, Rafiz and his friends looked in one direction towards the forest where they felt the incoming Deorc Star user. They ready their battle stance if that person wants to attack them. Yet, they were surprised to see Dark Reammut appear with two of their wounded soldiers.
"Dark Reammut?!" Their eyes show disbelief.
Dark Reammut ignored them but he couldn't help staring at Dark Hartina's severed hands. She winced a little because it reminded her of one of her nightmares which was almost in the same situation. Then, she placed the two soldiers whom Tucana had told her to help on the ground slowly.
After that, she moved to leave. However, she was stopped by someone who pulled her right arm. She turned her head to that person.
"Why? Why did you save our soldiers?" Aries asked.
She was the person who dared to approach Dark Reammut because she could feel Dark Reammut meant no harm to them right now. The latter looked down to see her because Aries' height was a little lower and narrowed her eyes at Aries's hand holding her arm.
Aries, who noticed her actions, let go of her arm right away.
"That's right. Why are you suddenly willing to help and bring them here?" Lyra asked as well. She felt suspicious.
Dark Reammut was still silent before she sighed.
"Who knows..."
She only said those words before she left and this time no one stopped her anymore.
Rafiz and Virgo picked up the two soldiers and took them to another tent to get treatment. Aries and others were still stunned by Dark Reammut's words.
"Hydra, is she that kind to us?" Cetus asked Dark Hartina.
Dark Hartina shook his head before grimacing in pain. Everyone looked at him with discomfort. They know losing two hands was very unbearable but with Kairi, Agi, Pisces, and Aquarius' abilities, his hands can be regenerated soon.
Rafiz who had returned came to him and made him sit down again on the ground. "Don't move too much."
"Sorry."
Dark Hartina took a deep breath. His body has been sweating a lot since he was injured. But, he still replies to Cetus.
"I've never seen her help her enemies before. So, I don't know why there's a change in her now."
Then, his eyes widened and looked at them. "Could it be that she knew that she was one of us?"
Aries and Lyra gasped in shock. "Really?!"
"Guys, I saw her emblem showing a different carving. It looks like a Tucana star. But why does it still look blackened if she was Tucana herself? I don't understand. Shouldn't it change to white if she has defeated her emblem's monster?"
Virgo, who heard Dark Hartina's question, told them about what he saw before he became confused. He just returned to hear it.
"Hm... Maybe she didn't want it to change yet because she wanted to hide it from being seen by everyone in the Deorc Star?" Perseus guessed.
They all agreed with her. If it does, they felt a bit relieved that Dark Reammut was their ally. Now, once again they waited for Kairi's news. Kairi's treatment tent was isolated so that there was no interference from other patients.
Suddenly, they were shocked when they heard Agi screaming Kairi's name. Rafiz and his friends quickly enter the tent.
Dark Reammut stopped her steps when she heard a strange sound like something was breaking. She looked down at her chest and was stunned. She hurriedly lifted her emblem which now had a slight crack on it.
"Wha, What happened? Tucana? Tucana!" Dark Reammut called her spirit beast in her mind.
However, Tucana did not respond. It was like he had disappeared. She began to feel uneasy and wondered why the emblem chain would be damaged. However, she suddenly thought of something.
"It couldn't be, right…? No, that is probably the only reason. The emblem is related to Kairi. Then, if Kairi dies… What would happen to all of us?!"
She doesn't want to think about the possibility but she had no choice when the answer just appeared in her mind. So, she turned around toward the treatment camp. She needs to see Kairi's condition with her own eyes. She stopped when a bright light appeared behind her.
"That direction... Isn't that where Revioryx was?"
She was startled when a loud roar was heard throughout the area. To find out what was going on, she flew into the air and headed there. Her eyes widened at the appearance of several winged people flying in the air around Revioryx. Not only that, their hands with different colours of aura were pointed towards him.
Dark Reammut could see several large chains with red aura were wrapped around Revioryx's body and pulled him down where there was a large hole. What gave her a cold shiver was the blue fire burning in the hole and also Revioryx furiously roared as he tried to break free from the huge chains.
"Hey, you! Get out of here! Do you want to be absorbed into the hole too?!" Someone with wings flew towards her.
Dark Reammut didn't know there would be angels from other Heaven and Hell that would come there. So, she thought he was a human. She stared at the angel's wings in amazement as it was mixed with a white and blue pattern emitting a white glow.
Then, she looked at the angel in front of her. Her eyes widened. This angel was very tall and had large muscles, probably more than Dark Gomy who was known as the bodybuilder.
"Hey! I order you to get out of here quickly! The hole will suck anyone who is a hundred meters away from it." The angel told her.
"Huh? What'd you mean?! What is that hole?! Where are you bringing that, that monster?!"
Dark Reammut stuttered when she remembered she wanted to call Revioryx her king but reminisced what he had done to all twelves Bright Star stellars in the past including her, she never wanted to call him her king anymore. She directly called him a monster which was really suitable for him.
The angel was contemplating for a moment but he realised Dark Reammut was wearing the emblem chain from the stellar users, which he didn't know that the black emblem means the enemy of Bright Star users. He only thought she was one of the Bright Star users.
"I'll tell you. After that, leave here before it gets dangerous. That hole will go directly to Hell realm, the prison to people and beings that made very heavy mistakes when they were still alive."
"Huh? Come again?" Dark Reammut doesn't believe him.
The angel stared at her with a dead stare.
"God! I don't have time to chat with you! Just leave or you can die if you want! Just remember. No one can leave Hell until their mistake has been pardoned."
"What?! Then, what happened to the people next to that monster?! Some of them are still alive!"
Dark Reammut watches many soldiers running away but some seem to be sucked into the hole while screaming for help.
The angel let out a sigh and gave sympathetic eyes to her.
"My apologies. They won't be able to return. Once you fall into the pit of Hell, you can't go back to the living world again. But, don't worry. Their spirits will be examined one by one and weighed in terms of their faults and virtues."
The angel explained but he didn't continue more. Dark Reammut's eyes widened after listening to it when she knew the rest of the answer. Her face looked pale with horror.
If what the angel told her was true, this meant their surviving soldiers would die! No! She can't let it happen to them! Even if there were still some soldiers left, she must save them! She looked at the angel angrily.
"Who are you?! What right do you have to sentence the living to their death?!" She asked bluntly.
The angel was startled by her yelling. He narrowed his eyes on her.
"You dare speak to me this way? I am one of the gods who care for this universe. I am called the God of Night, Andreit!"
Dark Reammut was not intimidated despite having known Andreit was a god. She has no respect for them if they don't care at all about the safety of her people.
"You want to challenge me, huh?" Andreit could see her opposed eyes to him.
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"Don't forget, I'm stronger than you think. As far as the power of time you borrow from the Stellar Spirit beast, you won't be able to defeat me with all of you combined."
Andreit then released a small pressure on her. Dark Reammut suddenly felt it was hard to breathe around her. Not only that, she felt the pressure was going to make her fall and quickly flash far away from him. She panted heavily while looking at Andreit murderously.
She gritted her teeth hard. She knew she couldn't defeat him. But, she didn’t like it when Andreit thought human life was cheap. Not wanting to face Andreit anymore, she flew to the battlefield, ignoring Andreit's warning call to her.
She still wanted to rescue her remaining soldiers. From a distance, she could see Revioryx was writhing. Below him, several corpses and living soldiers were being sucked into the hole. Her heart was in pain when she saw some of them belonged to her armies. Now, she can no longer bury the remains of their bodies except to make an empty grave for them.
"Damn it!" Tears welled up in her eyes but she quickly brushed them aside.
She found several more soldiers that were still alive. She took them back to their Deorc Star treatment camp. Only a few people remained there, waiting for the soldiers to be brought back to Dorothia.
She went to look again while flying around. She was shocked when the ground under her trembled like an earthquake. She hurriedly looked towards Revioryx and trembled in nervousness.
One of the large chains wrapping Revioryx's body was broken. Moreover, his half-swallowed body into the Hell hole was now climbing out using his two hands that had gripped outside the hole. The angels who tried to pull him back into hell were attacked by his many manifested tails. All tails were coated with sharp thorns.
Soon, still in disbelief, Dark Reammut saw Revioryx managed to escape from the hole and swung all his tails towards the nearby angles. The speed of his tails caused some angels unable to dodge and some of their body parts were cut off.
The unfortunate ones fell to the ground because their wings were chopped and before they could get up again, Revioryx's tails hit them, causing their bodies to splatter blue liquid around them. When the tail moved up, only the shattered body was still wriggling.
Dark Reammut cupped his mouth in horror. She was unable to move while watching one by one of the angels being killed. Unbeknownst to her, angels actually won't die since they were immortal. They will be back to normal in a few minutes. Unfortunately, she didn't know and thought they had died, killed by Revioryx.
She was shocked when she saw Leo and a few Bright Star users start to attack Revioryx. Like her, they must have thought the plan to bring Revioryx down to the realm of Hell was no longer successful. But, since the hole was still there, she could see they were trying to push Revioryx into it again.
Some of the angels who weren't hit by the attack used their powers to strike Revioryx too. The chain can no longer be built since their power was restricted by the world. They were able to summon it before because all of them have worked together. Now, some were injured and still reviving, so they couldn't make them yet.
Dark Revier summons up a barrier causing their attack to be repelled and hits them back. Explosions from the hit one by one sounded around the place. Now, the Hell hole behind him can be seen closing slowly because the attention and energy used by the angels were unable to hold on.
"No, no! Their plan is going to fail! The power he absorbed from Kairi has doubled his power and strength. If this continues, everyone in the world will be in danger! What should I do?" Dark Reammut was worried and her thoughts also were in chaos.
"Dark Reammut!" Someone called from behind her.
Dark Reammut flinched and saw her sister with Dark Ceilius coming.
"We must get out of here!" Dark Amilia told her as she went to pull her right hand to leave quickly.
Dark Reammut turned her head to look at the members of the Bright Star who were fighting Revioryx. Her eyes widened at the sight of Libra and Cancer being killed, causing furious screams from all the Bright Stars there.
Then she finally heard it… Tucana's cries of anguish over their death. It made her stop in place, making Dark Amilia look at her with a confused expression. She pulls her hands forcefully from Dark Amilia's grip.
"Dark Reammut? What are you doing? We must leave!" Dark Amilia told her.
Dark Reammut didn't say anything. Her heart was feeling lost. She doesn't know why but looking at Libra and Cancer dying makes her body shudder in cold. Somehow, she could feel the connection to Libra and Cancer was gone.
It was like missing one of her limbs. And she knows this was what Tucana felt which made her feel it too. She ball her fists and gripped them tightly before she turned to Dark Amilia and Dark Ceilius.
"I'm sorry. I, I can't leave here and just watch them get killed. I... Urgh… I'm sorry…" Dark Reammut says no more before she flies towards Revioryx.
"Dark Reammut!" Dark Amilia yelled in horror, calling her sister to come back to her.
She felt agitated to see Dark Reammut was going toward the most dangerous place for them.
"Damn it! What is that girl thinking?! Dark Amilia, let's go!" Dark Ceilius chased after Dark Reammut.
Dark Amilia immediately followed after them. She looked at Revioryx in fear. However, for her little sister, she was willing to go to the place she wanted to stay away.
Dark Reammut uses her power to stop time as soon as she sees Revioryx's tail swing at Cygnus. Time instantly stood still and she continued to push Cygnus away while dodging the attack of the tail that moved against her power of time.
"Gargh! Ow! Huh? Eh? Dark, Dark Reammut?!"
Cygnus groaned in pain because he hit his head on the ground suddenly. Then, he was shocked to see Dark Reammut in front of him.
"Roll!"
Dark Reammut hugged Cygnus' body and rolled them both to the side before pulling away from him when a swipe of Revioryx's tail once again attacked them.
Cygnus finally realised that Dark Reammut had saved his life. He still felt unbelievable but avoided the tail while pushing himself to the opposite side of Dark Reammut. The tail comes again and again and they dodge all of them.
"Damn! My power can't stop him. Is this because some of Kairi's power was acquired by him? If so, I can't use my power anymore." Dark Reammut thought darkly.
"Dark Reammut! You dare to betray me?!"
A question from Revioryx startled her. From her slight unfocused, her body immediately was wrapped around by thick roots that appeared beneath her. She was lifted until she was face to face with Revioryx's many eyes. The gaze looked very angry toward her. She screamed in pain as her arms and legs were pulled in opposite directions by the roots.
"Dark Reammut!!!" Cygnus, Dark Amilia and Dark Ceilius yelled in shock and tried to help her.
The other Bright Star users who had seen Dark Reammut rescue Cygnus also came to help. Along with them were Andreit and some of the remaining angels. They also attack Revioryx to make him release Dark Reammut.
Dark Reammut let out a heavy breath holding back the pain in her hands and legs. She could feel her bones wanting to severe. However, she ignored the pain by focusing on her anger toward Dark Revier.
Revioryx laughed after seeing her expression. He also no longer cares about any attacks made by others. Now, their attacks felt like a bite from a mosquito and no longer harmed him. He stopped when he heard Dark Reammut sentenced.
"You... You're not… My king anymore!" She yelled at him.
"Heh! So? I am still the one who gave you the power after your aunt died at the hands of the Bright Star? If not, you are just a worthless human being, easy to be stepped on by others."
Dark Reammut gritted her teeth hard then she suddenly laughed out loud. She makes Revioryx narrow his eyes at her.
"I didn't forget, Revioryx. I will never forget what you did in this current time and also to our twelve ancestors of the Bright Star! You are a monster through and through! In the past, you're the one who steals the Bright Star emblem power and turns it into what it is now. From here on, I will never forgive you!"
Dark Amilia and Dark Ceilius who heard it were startled. Dark Reammut's words, what does she mean?
Dark Revier grinned and his eyes shone a little.
"So, you already know who you are? But, what are you going to do after you find out about it?" He chuckled.
Dark Reammut was silent for a moment. Her eyes turn serious. Their situation… Not only that, their loss of hope expressed, and even Dark Amilia and Dark Ceilius' presence there, she realised they wouldn't be able to escape alive.
Then, she abruptly remembered Tucana's words. Does she want her power now? Can they even win with her power alone?
While not sure her power was enough to change the situation, she must try. This was her only chance. She didn't want to die without doing anything.
"Tucana, can you hear me?" She asked inside her mind
"Say your oath…" Tucana replied but his voice sounded so weak.
Dark Reammut knows she doesn't have much time.
"Oh Stellar Power that resides in me, I now take an oath to be your true holder..."
Everyone stopped and was stunned when they saw a glowing light coming out of Dark Reammut's body. The star beast Tucana came out of the emblem chain on her chest. His body was releasing a glaring light, causing the roots that encircled Dark Reammut to disappear.
Then, he entered Dark Reammut's body, causing her back to have six gold steel wings and it was emitting bright glows. The wings were in the shape of her longswords.
"I swear on my life to follow my true king, Kairi, Master of Stellars! With this, I discard my old name, Dark Reammut and will now be called by a new name! From now until my life is over, I am Tucana, one of the Bright Star users!"
At once, her emblem chain changed to white, surprising everyone there.