Excerpt from the journal of Draxus Ultimax: The Last Stand of the Four Races: The Fall of Kynonnen Faldric.
I had landed. Gzalmash had dropped me into the thick of it and all around me was the sound of fighting and the clashing of weapons. Screams of agony that brought me back to the fields of Vongottstein when I had fallen fighting Gorrath, Destroyer of Worlds. His name was appropriate, for he in turn had destroyed my world and felled my city. He was out there…somewhere…
I saw Kynonnen Faldric on the field at that moment, a trail of fallen demons behind him. His eyes were aflame with red and his sword glowing bluish white as it cut through the Demon Knights armor with ease. He was encircled by Demon Knights, Mages and Hulks. A Demon Mage saw this and unleashed a spell and a mighty three headed creature grew out of the ground and wounded Kynonnen, and he fell to one knee screaming in pain.
"KYNONNEN!!!" I yelled rushing at his position cutting down demon after demon that tried to stop me, a Demon Hulk grabbed my shoulder at that moment and drove a fist into my face that made me see the stars that night, though they dissapeared a moment later.
After gathering my senses I swiped quickly across it's chest from the bottom up tearing a gash into its armour that severed the thing in two and continued my flight to save the agonized Kynonnen.
Kynonnen looked around and saw that the demon knights and mages had stopped their assault on him and wondered why. The three headed creature of the abyss that had attacked him had returned to it's planar home and Kynonnen, shaking from the encounter stood up once more, ready to attack the demons again. Extending his arm and levelling his glowing sword he drew a steady attack stance towards the nearest Demon Hulk and the hulk made no move to attack.
"Why!?", screamed his mind, he looked around frantically in hopes for an answer that when found made him wish he had never asked. Looming above him was a leader of the Baatezu, "Azuul the Soul Razer" as I found out from a later converation with Andarus.
Kynonnen began to sing a song to the Eternal Light and to Gaia at that moment. I saw the light within him begin to glow and the Pit Fiend recoiled at the sound of the melodic tune.
They battled on and Kynonnen sang until the fiend Azuul ripped the last breath from his chest. The grip on his sword released and the blue light within it dimmed as the sands claimed the mighty blade for eternity. Kynonnen went limp and sank to the sand, looking at me as I ran to where he fell I saw peace in his eyes and he seemed to smile a moment, the blood staining the sands all around him as the last of the life within him stained the battlefield.
I saw Azuul's scream of triumph as he looked to the sky laughing with glee over the body of the fallen hero, the demons encirling the body regrouped and advanced once more…
D.
[Text by Vio]
