Chapter 25

All the other gathered together after they defeated their respective opponents and took out the opposing Summoners. Shen joined up with Akali before Akali looked towards Shen with dead eyes and said, “We’re too late.”

“You mean…” Shen said before Zed intervened.

“It looks like Thanatos has achieved his perfect body. Though fighting these battles were n necessary, we were still damned if we went straight to him, because there would’ve been both SUmmoners and Champions after us. However, if we didn’t fight, then we would’ve had the Summoners and other Champions to deal with. It’s a dilemma that gave us a hard choice, and it looks like we have to pay the ultimate price for it.”

“It’s not over yet!” Kennen declared though the other Champion’s faces looked downcast. They knew it was a hard battle ahead, and Akali looked more determined than ever.

“I have to put a stop to this,” Akali said, while Ahri put a hand on Akali’s shoulder.

“I’m sorry, sister,” Ahri said. “It may not be very comforting, but at least I’m on your side now. Though what do we do?”

“We have to assume that Thanatos has some time to adjust to his perfect body,” Shen said. “That’s our only hope. We need to strike hard and fast. We must catch him off guard and prevent him from complete evolving into his perfect body.”

“Agreed,” Akali said before all of them dashed towards the battlefield, where Thanatos awaited them.

“Welcome,” Thanatos said. “You’ve reached the deepest dungeon in the game; the final boss, you could say! So how do you feel? Do you like this game? But no that there are no continues or resets after this one battle. Your lives are at stake here, and it means game over for you guys once I kill you. Will you still fight, knowing that will happen.”

“We will never submit to you, Thanatos,” Akali said in a harsh voice. “You killed Kai, one of your own. Your reign of terror is not going to be allowed to even begin. We will fight you…all of us. Together.”

“Then, you have resigned your lives!” Thanatos said before wings emerged from his back and he achieved a god-like status from his perfect body. Akali prepared herself, along with the others, to fight against him. It would be a tough battle, they knew, but at least they all would die fighting instead of curling their tails between their legs.

Akali, Ahri, and Zed waited in the back, looking for a perfect opportunity to assassinate Thanatos while Shen went ahead of the fray to tank their damage. Teemo started to set up some shrooms and Kennen prepared his stuns on Thanatos. Irelia joined the fray ss well alongside Shen, a new determined look in her eyes that showed her fervor and passion for the match, that she knew that her fellow friends were in danger and that she had t fight for their lives. Shen tanked a great big blast of energy from Thanatos’ hand, and Akali noticed that his right arm was mutating into something almost demonic like. Ahri threw out her orb and he absorbed it in his left hand, becoming stronger.

“No good,” Ahri murmured. “He can absorb attacks with his left hand.”

“Noted,” Akali said, before she dashed into use physical attacks on Thanatos’ left arm, to sever it. She managed to do so, however, something horrifying happened; his arm regrew back into its normal self again, though it no longer had the demonic markings from before. But it slowly started to corrupt and turn more demonic as time passed on, so it seems like they’ll have to keep on cutting off that arm and severing it if they didn’t want him to absorb their abilities with that hand.

“Shen!” Akali said. “Taunt him and make sure that he only attacks you. I’ve got an idea.”

Shen nodded, not questioning her, and Shen taunted Thanatos so that he would attack Shen only. Something strange happened, and Shen almost looked mechanical, then he slumped, as though he were a marionette with its strings cut off. Then he looked towards Akali, pain in his eyes, while he walked towards her and attempted to taunt her. However, Ahri dashed in the way and took the taunt for Akali, saying, “looks like he can control either one of us as well if he makes physical eye contact. I don’t know how long it lasts, but at least I’ll keep Shen busy while you figure out how to defeat him!”

Akali nodded before she and Zed did a Shadow combo on Thanatos together. Yet even with their moves, they couldn’t put a scratch on Thanatos.

“There’s one last thing that we need to do,” Akali said. “Thresh, your lantern can contain spiritual energy, can’t it?”

“Yes,” Thresh said while Ahri was still fighting Shen and Thanatos unfurled his wings, one angelic and one demonic.

“We need to gather all the energy of ourselves and the champions into this lantern,” Akali explained. “And then we will unleash all that energy onto Thanatos before he turns into a God. How does that sound?”

“Might as well try it,” Thresh murmured before he started to gather the energy of all the Champions within the League into his lantern. Shen managed to snap into his senses after Ahri charmed him, regaining his senses to be on their side once more. Akali took Thresh’s lantern, gathering all the souls and spiritual energies and everything that came before It in his lantern, before imbuing it with herself to strike the final blow.

Thanatos screamed. His body started to disintegrate, and mutate into something more amorphous and horrifying to look at instead of the perfect body that he wanted. Once he was down, all of them stuck together and landed the final killing blow, until Thanatos broke away into several parts and disintegrated into several pieces of pure energy.

Akali could hardly believe it. Did they win? Have they really won? Yet there was so much more work to do, and she was tired. She collapsed into Shen’s arms and listened to the sound of his heartbeat while she took a long, wary rest.