“They must already be in battle. This snow storm will only slow me down in the plane.” Loka thinks. He quickly lands the plane, gets out, and starts running through the thick snow. Molten lava blast out of Rev’s hand, landing on Havoc’s back. He lets out a powerful roar, stunning Rev for just a moment. He swipes his claw, sending Rev flying. As Rev is sent flying, he reaches his hand out towards Havoc, having a molten hand appear on his back, attempting to pin him down.

  POOF!

  Rev crashes into the ground, the many feet of fluffy snow cushioning the fall. Rev lays there, his heart racing. His chest feels like it’s been caved in. He starts to heal up as he tries to keep a tight hold on Havoc at the same time.

  “It’s over child! Give up!” Havoc calls out.

  He charges another attack. Rev creates another molten hand wrapping around from Havoc’s back to his mouth. Making sure to hold it shut. Hellscape is slowly but surely draining Havoc’s source and expanding itself in the process. Right now it seems to not be causing any major damage, but it’s doing a good job at holding Havoc off for now. Rev heals up and goes on the offensive, picking up his bag and sending 3 bullets at Havoc's eyes while doing his best to hold him in place.

  BANG!

  BANG!

  BANG!

  Three shots fired, Havoc fight back having two of the bullets miss, but one gets through so Havoc closes his eye to block the last shoot. Rev uses this to wrap around him and create more hands from the source drained from Havoc. Havoc smile and charges another shock wave. “He tricked me into getting close…” Rev thinks. He quickly dashes away, but the shock wave is faster than him. Rev is paralysed once more. Hellscape grip on Havoc loosens, and he quickly breaks out. The hot lava melting the snow below causes a smoke screen of sorts. Havoc attempt to clear it for a moment, spreading his wings out wide and letting out a bone shattering roar.

  “RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!”

  “Almost there!” Loka thinks. Rev tries to move “GET UP!” he tells himself. Havoc spots Rev.

  “This is it child!” Havoc says. He then goes to charge up another breath attack.

  The red electricity jumps from scale to scale until it all gathers in Havoc’s mouth. Then rapidly jolting between his razor-sharp teeth. Rev sees the source in Havoc’s core start to rise through his throat.

  “Am…am going to die…” Rev hopelessly says.

  “Flash freeze”

  Everything comes to a stop. It seemed that the air itself had frozen solid. Loka has arrived wearing a strange black and white cloth. shirt tight, but ever thing else slightly baggy. A curved sword at his waist. Loka lets out a breath of relief as he looks at a frozen over Rev still alive.

  Crack…

  “I need to get him out of here fast.” Loka thinks. He uncast the ice around Rev, freeing him. Rev’s eyes widen in shock.

  “GET YOUR HANDS OFF OF ME!” Rev yells.

  He tries to move hellscape a bit, but even it is frozen. “How did-”

  “You need to run, and fast. That ice won’t hold him for long.” Loka says.

  Rev looks at him with pure hatred in his eye’s “You…you just want to use me.” Rev says.

  He tries to attack Loka, throwing punches at him. Loka grabs his wrist and brings him to the ground.

  “You better listen to me closely if you want even a small chance at killing me, then you're gonna have to run as fast as you can. I believe even you know that you were about to die before I showed up. So you better start running and let me clean up your mess. Don’t worry kid, I’ll be sure to sure to cash in this favor real soon.” Loka says.

  Rev can’t move a muscle, “he…HE CAN’T BE THIS MUCH STRONGER…NO…NOOO…” Rev thinks.

  “NO! I WON’T ACCEPT-”

  Loka drives his fist into Rev’s stomach. Rev’s eyes roll over to the back of his head. Loka covered him in an ice sheet and throws him away.

  “RAAAAAAH!”

  The ice comes crumbling down around Havoc. He then fires his lightning breath. Loka dodges and Havoc smile.

  “What an honor it is. The queen told me that you would protect the child. So it seems I’ll have the honor of killing Loka himself.” Havoc taunting says.

  Loka rolls his eyes. “It’s the same speech ever time.” Loka says.

  “Do you have no respect for your elders?” Havoc says.

  “Elder?” Loka questions.

  Havoc begins to charge up. “Your about to face the built up power of the last 550 years.” Havoc tells Loka.

  Loka shrugs. He might be playing it cool on the outside, but even Loka knows not to play around when fighting an elder dragon.

  “TODAY LOKA…YOU MEET YOUR END!” Havoc yells.

  Havoc draws in sources from all around. Loka holds his ground, carefully watching Havoc…now. Loka dodges as Havoc lets out a max out put attack. He follows Loka’s movements. His attack misses him, but clears the top of 3 mountains in the distant mountain range. Loka, on the other hand, is nowhere to be seen. Loka had used the time of Havoc's charge up to begin casting.

  “Frozen purgatory,” Loka whispers.

  A blizzard with in a blizzard forms. Loka makes sure not to expand its range to for to where it would affect Rev in his unconscious frozen state. The smaller range comes with the benefit of stronger winds. Any normal human, elf, cyclops, or even dragon would be getting torn to piece with in a matter of a few seconds to minutes. Unfortunately, this was no normal dragon. Havoc stood in the middle of the blizzard unfazed as he once again began to charge up another attack. Loka tried to cast stone pillars around him along to zone him off. Then cast frozen spikes below him ,but Havoc stood there letting the ice spikes try to pierce his scale. The ice spike broke on contact. The ice spikes were reinforced and had a razor-sharp edges. Loka thought for a moment, trying to think of a way to defeat Havoc. Havoc let out a powerful shock wave. Loka used his control of the blizzard to try to condense the blast for it not to hit Rev.

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  “Give up Loka! there is nothing you can do!” Havoc says.

  Loka's face grows cold. He took off his shirt, letting it hang at his waist, held on by a tight cloth belt. His body was covered in inscription. Loka drew his sword, a stained peachy purple color radiated from the blade.

  Note: The weapon Loka is using is a sword made of source metal refined to the highest known grade. The blade is 62inches in length, radiating a peachy purple color with a stain like pattern. Both sides of the blade are inscribed with different arts. The blade's name is Marzaneas.

  “From this point forward. I will be holding nothing back.” Loka says.

  Havoc smile. Loka lets out a visible breath due to how cold it was and with that he was gone.

  “Where did-”

  The cut was so clean it had taken a moment for the pain to fully register. Loka had cut Havoc's leg, it had cut right through Havoc's scales like a hot knife through butter. Havoc immediately swiped his large claws at Loka.

  Crack…

  Rev’s our shell has started to crack open. Loka dodges Havoc’s attacks with ease. Loka counter by slicing at the back of Havoc's leg again. This causes Havoc to lose balance. Loka uses this to get in his blind spot. He uses the blizzard to freeze his cut up leg to the ground, holding him in place for just a moment. Loka then dashes forward with the intent to end the battle right then and there. Havoc turns his head around and catches the blade in his teeth. He then starts to charge up an attack. Loka pushes through, cutting right through Havoc’s teeth. Loka takes a deep breath, his face still holding a serious and cold expression. “he’s gonna die!” Havoc thinks. He lets out his lightning attack.

  SWOOSH!

  The attack cut straight through Havoc’s open jaw and lightning carrying through to cut the ground behind them, causing a massive shock wave. The shock wave carries through having Rev’s frozen shell pushed back. Rev has been slowing melting it from the inside. By the time the shock wave hits, the shell is shattered.

  “He…he killed it…” Rev is in disbelief.

  Rev charges right for Loka. Loka notice Rev running toward him and dashes forward.

  “NOO GET BACK!” Loka yells.

  Havoc swipes his claw at Rev. Loka block the attack with his blade.

  “I told you-”

  “How is it still alive? You cut its head off!” Rev yells.

  Loka lets out a sigh. "That won’t be enough. Elder dragons won’t go down with just one powerful attack. Their regeneration is in a class of their own. Dragons are creators of adaptability. When all they do is fight, they get pretty good at taking a hit.” Loka tells Rev.

  Havoc has transformed into his human form. His claws are a dark red. His scales flare up on his back, almost like spikes. His red striped patterns stay the same for the most part. His body coved in red lighting branching off and striking the snowing ground around him. Havoc pointed his finger at them, and a powerful lightning strike followed. Loka grabbed Rev and dodges the attack.

  “Stay out of my way if you hope to live through this fight.” Loka says.

  Rev is full of unbearable anger. His body shakes violently as he tries to take a deep breath. “Loka is sure to win this fight. If I stay back and wait for him to finish, I could maybe attack him at his weakest.” Rev thinks. His body grows still, and he dashes away, running to the distant hills. Havoc chased after him, but Loka quickly stopped him. Havoc clapped his hands together, causing a widespread thunderings sound. The sound ringed through Loka’s and Rev’s head. Rev fell to his knees, but Loka fought on, attempting to land a hit on Havoc. Havoc caught his blade, using it to land an attack on Loka. His scale turned and dug deeply into Loka’s flesh, electrocuting him. His muscles twitched as Havoc attempted to fry his organs. Loka stays calm and focus. He uses his source to surround the lighting in his body and does his best to quarantine it. Havoc started to barrage Loka with punches to his face. Havoc ripped Loka’s face apart, one blow after another, yet Loka remained unfazed. Once he had surrounded the lighting, he redirected it back at Havoc and used his now free movements to time his strike to cut both of Havoc’s hands off.

  “How..”

  Loka lunges forward, driving his blade into Havoc's stomach.

  “Grow” Loka whispered.

  Withered braches started to grow off of the blade and into Havoc. It fought directly at his regeneration. Loka pulled his blade back. The blood seeping into the blade it’s self. Havoc swipes at Loka, his movements becoming slower as the thorn of the branches grows larger with in him. Loka cuts the back of his legs using it land and head kick on Havoc. He dashes after him, nearing cutting him in half at the waist. Havoc quickly moves barely, dodging the slash of Loka’s blade. They continue to clash. Loka cutting through Havoc’s lighting and Havoc growing more and more agitated. The longer the fight went on, the more it grow. Wrapping its self around Havoc, restricting his movements further and further. His regeneration fights against it's never ending growth. Loka knew all of Havoc’s tricks; he knew Havoc wouldn’t hit him again. Loka got faster as Havoc got slower. Loka’s slashes began to cut deeper each time. Havoc’s regeneration was a wonder with in its self, but it did not make him immortal.

  “WHAT IS THIS! THIS IS NOT BATTLE!” Havoc yelled.

  “you had lost the battle the second I drew my blade. To be honest, such an incompetent creature is unworthy of such power.

  “AHHHH!” Havoc cries out.

  He’s resulted in a last resort attack. He gathers all the remaining source in him and charges it up.

  “IF I HAVE TO DIE THEN AM TAKING YOUR ARROGANT ASS WITH ME!!!” Havoc yells.

  Rev watches the charge up. “I should be safe here” Rev thinks, he back up further just to make sure. Loka stood his ground tightly, wielding his blade. A bright red light flashed in front of them.

  POO- SWOOOSH!

  Loka took the attack head on, cutting straight through it with his attack, sending it back at Havoc. The attack caring through and decimating the distant mountain. Some of the attack had hit Loka as he was not strong enough to take on the whole thing. Loka dropped to his knees, seeing that the attack had hit him down to the bone. He took a moment to regenerate what he could to be able to walk. He then started slowly walking toward Havoc, who laid on the ground with his middle half completely dismantled. Loka brought his blade to Havoc’s face as he laid on the ground in overwhelming defeat.

  “800…and 72…” Loka said.

  “…what…” Havoc responded, struggling to look up at Loka.

  “872 year, that's roughly how old I am. To put it simply, I have blood stains older than you.” Loka said, as he let out a cold breath and a faint grin.

  Havoc’s eyes widen in shock and disbeliefs. “Don’t worry, I heard death isn’t so bad…” Loka said.

  He brought his blade up. “872 years old, that can’t be right! That would mean he’s older than the first-born son of the queen…Loka can’t be that old. He’s only human 100 maybe with all his source he has he could live as long as an elf, but 800 years there’s no way…if that where true-” Havoc’s thoughts where cut short as his head and heart are cut through.

  -The youngest of the Elder Dragons has been killed.

  Note: Art used “Flash Freeze”, Type: Source attachment (air) and air to ice transformation, Tier: Higher Art .

  Note: Arts used "Grow”, Type: Source to thorn plant transformation. This art is a continues art that grows the more source it absorbs. Tier: Great Art.

  The thorny plant quickly overtakes him as it then grows a small tree with his body as its base. Loka gives a distasteful expression as he seems to think of the past. He then absorbs all the source he can from the tree and watches it wither away. Rev looks at Loka; clearly, even if Rev attacked him in this weakened state, he would be cut down before a minute passed. Then a voice echoed through his head once more, even louder than before.

  RUN!

  Rev’s mind and soul were still over boiled with malice and overwhelming frustration. “WHO ARE YOU! GET OUT OF MY HEAD YOU COWARD!” Rev Rev yelled.

  Loka looked into the distance and sighed. “Has the child finally lost it?” Loka wonders. Weather Rev liked it or not, retreat was the only option. He had used up most of his source already, casting Hellscape against Havoc earlier. He was in no position to fight Loka. This realization didn’t help much in bottling up his rage, but it was enough. Rev began to run to the mountains in the distance as fast as he could, not daring to look back. It wasn’t just hatred for what Loka had put him through, but the fact that he had saved his life. “WHY…. WHY OR WHY MUST THIS HAPPENED TO ME!!” Rev thought. He tripped over himself face first into the now brittle snow. He layed there punching at the snow as if he was a child throwing a tantrum.

  “Am going to kill that bastard! I swear on the cruelty of the twin gods. Loka’s life will be mine to claim! Mine I say MINE!” Rev yelled into the snow.