Hey!

The final chapter of this Arc!

I have to work most of the week, so I will begin the next Arc chapter on Sunday and carry on as usual from Wednesday onward. So three days working, one day off, two days working, you get it.

Thanks for the support and votes.

Let us get to it.

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*Cough, Cough*

"Ugh! what happened?."

"H-Hello?"

"Help!"

At the base of the Chernobog control tower, coughing and whimpering shouts for help could be heard amongst the ash and cinders of the last Reunion holdout. Fire, smoke and fumes filled the surroundings as pieces of the once mighty control tower greeted Reunion that had raised themselves from the ash-covered floor.

Whatever had attacked them had done so quickly and effectively. One moment they held back a literal green tide of soldiers and then to the sky, suddenly turning against them and raining fire down upon the unsuspecting defenders.

"Get up and keep fighting!" The parched voice of a Reunion Caster leader came as she used her Arts on an opponent passed an ash and smoke cloud other Reunion soldiers couldn't see.

One Reunion soldier crawled slowly back to his previous dugout position and grabbed the dirty, slightly worn machine gun given to him before the battle began. He didn't know where they found firearms, but he wouldn't argue.

He placed the large gun onto the rubble and loaded the weapon clumsily due to his minimal experience with firearms. He could only see shapes in the distance getting closer, so in an amateurish fashion, he sprayed the area desperately. Unfortunately, those same shapes in the distance quickly dived to the ground.

The distinctive buzz sound of his weapon could be heard across the smoky battlefield. Many Reunion had risen from the ash and rubble and returned to their positions. However, many dugouts remain empty as Reunion soldiers lay dead from the airstrike only minutes before. Plenty had been crushed by tower sections that had collapsed on them.

The shouts of the Enclave soldiers closing in slowly could be heard. Reunion was still desperate and throwing everything they had at their aggressors; their morale was all but spent. None had seen even one of the main Leaders of Reunion since the battle had begun. Where was Leader Talulah or Patriot? Where was W or Frostnova?

They had nowhere to run now, and most were too zealous to Reunion to consider surrendering. Some of the Older Reunion soldiers knew they were doomed, but the younger ones still preached how it was only a matter of time before help arrived. How naive.

The Older members of Reunion fought quietly, awaiting the inevitable, while the younger ones shouted and mocked.

"Die Die Die!"

"Come on! Fight us!"

"HA! Reunion can't lose here!"

One overzealous Reunion Cocktail thrower that had been given grenades had rushed ahead over the defensible positions and threw a grenade at the approaching army, causing an explosion and shouts to be heard in the distance.

The Cocktail thrower turned and attempted to return to cover, only to be shot in the back multiple times. He starts crawling a few feet before crumbling to the ground and dying.

"Keep fighting!" Someone on the Reunion side shouts desperately.

"Just give up, damn it!" An Enclave officer pinned by the machine gun only a few meters away shouted back to them.

"Never!" Another Reunion cried out.

A powerful voice speaking off in the distance where Enclave was coming from could be heard over the battlefield. If Reunion could see past the smoke, they would see a large tank with a megaphone on top of it. Again, a deep voice echoes over the battlefield.

"Reunion forces! This is Seneschal of the Farsight Enclave. By order and the mercy of Commander Farsight, I offer you one chance to surrender and save your lives!"

For a brief moment, all sounds of fighting cease, and guns go silent. All seemed to be caught off-guard by the act of mercy. But then, the quiet battlefield is broken by a voice from somewhere in the Reunion Line.

"Take your false mercy and shove it up your asses!"

The insult echoes in the silence as the most overzealous Reunion laugh and cheers at the mocking of their enemies. The older Reunion members shake their heads in dismay. They have just doomed them all.

"SO BE IT! FINISH THEM!" Seneschal thunders over the Megaphone.

Reunion forces get back into position and prepare to continue fighting when across their entire defensive line, only a meter in front of them, Enclave soldiers pop up from below hidden cover, wielding strange tubes with tanks on their backs.

Any Reunion soldiers with experience know what these soldiers hold, and their eyes widen in horror. Reunion Leaders attempted to shout the order to kill them, but it was already too late. The sounds of agonizing screams across the entire Reunion frontline echo. No mercy was given to the final defenders.

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Reunion dugouts and defended positions were bathed in liquid fire, sticking to everyone and everything. Reunion members rolled and ran around to put out the fire that clung to them.

Enclave soldiers watched in shock and gut-wrenching sickness as the Reunion defenders melted and burned before them. All eyes watched as they screamed and writhed around hopelessly. Seneschal and his officers in the background observed the morbid scene with a queasy feeling.

The screams of Reunion subsided quickly and were soon met with panicked callings from Enclave soldiers at the front of the now molten dugouts.

"Oh crap! It's the Reunion leader, Talulah!"

"Talulah!? Run!"

Seneschal heard the panicked shouts of his men and women at the frontline and shouted into the megaphone still with him. "All forces fall back! Now!"

The Farsight Enclave soldiers ran over the unsteady ground as quickly as possible to get back behind the Enclave tanks that had made it into the clearing with the Seneschal. Reunion in the city was dealt with apart from occasional pockets of resistance, but now Talulah was the only real threat in the city.

The dozen Enclave tanks in their area took a position before the retreating soldiers. They turned their mighty guns to aim at the apocalyptic entity known as Talulah, who was pushing through the fallen fire-ridden rubble that was once the Chernobog control tower.

Seneschal looks at the intimidating figure walking towards them with dismay. He pulls out a radio and gestures down to the Durin tank member below him as he stands on the command tank.

"OPEN FIRE! FIRE EVERYTHING YOU HAVE AT HER!" Seneschal shouts in desperation.

Every tank continuously discharges its main cannons at her to the point their vision is obscured. Many soldiers have retreated to safety, but if Talulah advanced quickly, they could easily be caught in her flame Arts. They had been briefed on Talulah and what she could do, so none intended to face her openly, better equipment or not.

Seneschal could not see Talulah due to the smoke and ash, but he doubted she would be trounced so readily. But, of course, it couldn't be that easy, could it?

In the booming sounds of cannon fire, all ears heard a sound that none wanted to hear. It was a cold laugh followed by the sounds of a sword being swung with supreme force.

Out of the smoke and ash came a massive slash of her flame Arts, hitting the furthest tank to the left. Not even heavy armour could have saved the mighty machine as the entire tank was engulfed in flames and sliced in half, causing all Enclave soldiers behind the tank to back away in fear due to the intense heat.

A few moments later, another Massive flame Arts slash came out of the smoke and destroyed another tank. Followed by another slash and another. Seneschal was losing tanks. This was not going to work. "Come on Mal-Mal!" Seneschal mumbles to himself in worry. Sweat dripped down his face at the intense heat Talulah was creating. He had one more trick up his sleeve if all else failed. He just hoped Youngblood was ready.

After losing five tanks, the Seneschal decided he had enough. "Cease fire!" He barked down the radio. All tanks ceased their aggression on the Reunion Leader and waited for the smoke and ash to clear. Talulah had stopped destroying his tanks, at least. It wasn't long before a figure emerged from the smoke.

"Well done, Enclave. I am truly impressed." Talulah looked at the Enclave forces that stared at her in worry before locking her eyes with Seneschal.

"You must be the Seneschal... I don't know what you hoped to accomplish here, but you are fools to think this is the end." Talulah grit out coldly.

"Talulah! by order of Commander Farsight, I must ask that you surrender," Seneschal asks the Reunion Leader, knowing her response already.

"Who is this Farsight to command me?" Talulah barks in annoyance. "A coward that hides"

Many glares at the insult to their leader but don't express it. Talulah is powerful enough to say something like that without worrying about retaliation.

"Your forces in Lungmen still exist! Many of your soldiers in this city have been captured. Why die here?" Seneschal shouts. The area around him was getting hotter by the minute.

"Die? Do you think you or your cowering army are capable?" Talulah gestures to the trembling soldiers behind him.

Seneschal knows that convincing her is near impossible but knows he will lose many soldiers needlessly if he doesn't try. He has to take a gamble which may very well take his life and that of those under his command. So he goes for it. High Haven is a treasure trove for stolen information. He knows about Talulah's past.

"What about Alina?" Seneschal grips his sabre sword tight. This was dangerous territory he was stepping in.

Talulah briefly faults at the mention of someone from her past, and for a moment, a look of shock passes across her eyes before they narrow at the man across from her.

"What did you say?" Talulah growls, her words colder than ice, as everything around her heats up.

"Ursus wrong you! Just as they wronged lady Alina! But all mentions of her never suggested she would have ever agreed with what you have done here." Seneschal speaks up.

A strange possessed look passes over Talulah. She seems to be fighting something, which Seneshal notices. Even at this distance, Seneshal's bionic eye can see a single tear fall down the dirty face of Talulah. So she does still have a heart. Seneschal thinks.

The look of conflict on Talulah's face quickly fades and is followed by a baleful glare at the Enclave soldiers and the Seneschal in particular.

Seneschal stares at her in worry and mumbles, "Come on, Youngblood, times up, Don't fail us now, Lad!"

A small crack of noise could be heard in the far distance behind the Enclave lines.

"You will pay dearly for all you have done!" Talulah shouts as she charges are flame Arts.

Enclave soldiers back up in fear again and prepare to be burned. Seneschal looks on in determination as he counts down, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. A whistle-like noise can be heard getting closer.

Before Talulah can unleash another massive slash from her flame Arts that was aiming at Seneshal this time, a single Artillery round lands a few feet from Talulah and explodes in a mustard-coloured mist.

Talulah, caught off-guard by the strange explosion and the mist she is currently breathing in, an unpleasant smell but nothing more? She looks at Seneshal with confusion and irritation.

"What was that supposed to be? Even at your demise, you still try to cling to lif-UGH!" Talulah mocks but quickly throws up her stomach contents onto the floor. She looks up at the man across the distance and glares.

"What...What have you done?!" Talulah starts heaving, her eyes watering as the gas begins affecting her.

He doesn't reply. He stares at her in pity.

Talulah attempts to stand straight and starts charging her flame Arts again to finish off this fool that would make a mockery of her, only for her to stumble forwards and throw up blood.

Once again, the Reunion leader looks up and stares at the Seneschal, but this time in shock and confusion.

"!?" She attempts to speak again, but blood flows out of her mouth. What had they done to her?!

"Hey!" A voice calls out from the smoke behind Talulah. The Reunion leader stumbles and looks back to the unknown speaker, only for her eyes to widen in horror. A green glow shines in Talulah's widening eyes.

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Outside of Chernobog to the east, a Sarkaz and her mercenaries stare at what was once a city that Reunion has briefly called home. All the Sarkaz present could see thousands of Enclave soldiers and tanks flood into the city. The sky wasn't free of Enclave either. If the Valkyrie's swarming the control tower and bringing it down was anything to go by.

"And you wanted to stay and fight..." A Sarkaz mercenary gestured to the city as he looked at one of his companions.

"Still could have killed a few of them," Another mumbled.

"I heard the leader of this army is the Farsight guy hiding in Lungmen."

"What do you think, W?"

"Heh, This Farisight guy leading this army is in Lungmen?" W giggles to herself as she grins.

"Umm... yes?" One of her subordinates says.

"Mmmm... I think that... this love-sick Sarkaz is going to Lungmen! Haha," W Smirks before walking off. Her mercenaries roll their eyes and follow her, feeling pity for this Farsight dude.

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*Achoo!*

"Commander Farsight! are you alright"

"I'm fine, Misha... Just a sneeze."

What a horrible feeling he just had!

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Done!

The Battle for Chernobog has concluded!

Next, Arc of this story is Lungmen, and it will mostly be setting up the Harem for Lappland, Ch'en, Texas and W.

Lots of Fluffy romance coming!

Is Talulah dead? Is Patriot dead? Is Frostnova dead? Did we see any of them die? Maybe they are, perhaps they aren't.

I'm not sure about the specifics of Mustard-gas, so forgive my ignorance.

Thanks for everything!

Zero-