Chapter 196: The Last Face Off (1/2)

”Scarlett? Scarlett what are you doing?! Scarlett!”

Scarlett gritted her teeth, not making any eye contact staring Ragnar down. She was trembling in fear holding her arms out yelling at the top of her lungs. ”Doing what Alton would do! I owe you all so much, you've made me the girl I am today, and I won't change any of that.” Her head shifted to Zinnia, fighting back the tears. ”Thank you, Zinnia.”

As the attack charged up, Ragnar spotted another figure in the distance. Emerging from the hole in the wall there was no going back for Alton now. Stepping onto the snowy surface, Alice's head turned, staring on in shock. Her lip began to tremble as she gave off a small smile. ”I knew you were still alive.”

Alton kneeled next to Alice, holding her hand and tapping Emil's arm. ”It's alright now, you all did amazing. I'll take over from here you all rest up.” Continuing to walk over, Alton stood beside a distort Scarlett whispering. ”Now just what are we doing Scarlett? You aren't going against our promise, are you? We're taking him down together.”

Scarlett's head pivoted towards Alton. Before she could attack Ragnar flourished forward landing his attack blowing the area apart entirely. Although no one was gravely injured by such a mighty blow. Alton stood with his back to Ragnar blocking the attack with his own sword holding his ground. ”Ah, there you are.”

”Everyone… I'm sorry for what I've done. I promise you, though. This ends here.” Pushing his father back, Alton spun his sword around, stabbing it into the ground. ”No more running.”

Ragnar stared at his son with a smug look. ”You know that's rather rich coming from the boy who cannot stop running. Did you finally regret your actions and come to accept your fate? Or do you honestly believe you can win again?”

Alton stared down at his frozen hand, shaking it. A small chuckle emerged. ”I knew my plan wouldn't trick you. You would see through it; not once did I hope you wouldn't. I was hoping to trick everyone else. To run and never look back. I can only blame myself for that… All of this blood is on my hands. Sunset Peak, Destiny, Marco, Sam… All of it is my fault. Time, I take responsibility for my actions. No more running this time it's just you and me dad.”

Ragnar scoffed creating two scythes wielding each one down by his side. ”The only way you can take responsibility for your actions is to lie down and die!” The grey sky faded, and the blizzard came to a sudden halt throwing him off. ”What?”

Ragnar stood dumbfounded as a raindrop fell landing on his face. This was met soon by a downpour. Alton's eyes opened, revealing the sinister garden yellow as he began transforming into his Garden form. The water droplets all began condensing to his hand, charging up. Tilting his head, Alton stared his father down. ”Many people have failed to kill me. What makes you think you're anything special? You're nothing but a failure of a father too afraid to face his own regrets. Allow me to demonstrate true power.”

Ragnar stumbled back, seeing serval deep wounds appearing around his body. Blood began trickling from his hands. ”Hmm? What is this? This power… I see, so that's your game, Alton. How truly pathetic.”

”Pathetic? The only pathetic person I see here is you. To think you'd be so desperate for a son that you'd throw away any sense of humanity and steal a monster from the Garden. How truly sad and to even that end you would never get the son you'd hope for. Why? Because you're no father to me.”

Ragnar bit his lip taking the statement to heart as his whole body began freezing over. ”And you are clearly no son of mine!” Going to attack Ragnar found himself unable to move flinching slightly. ”What? My body… Impossible!”

Alton shook his head sighing. ”Impossible is only a word used by weaklings who have no clue of true power. While you were too busy blabbering about how much of a mistake, I was I made sure to attack every nerve in your body paralysing you on the spot. The only mistake I see is your lack of judgment. This isn't like last time Ragnar. No, this time… You fall. Now die, die for her. Die for your precious Lilly.” Pushing the condensed typhoon forward it exploded bursting to life-consuming Ragnar in a tornado of water. It's might drowning all possible resistance before shooting him out flooded him further off the wall. ”The water is the perfect judge of life. Only the strong can withstand my Judgement Typhoon!”

Falling out of sight into the city below Ragnar vanished consumed by Alton's tremendous power. Taking a long breath, Alton held his head in pain panting. ”Is that the end of it?” Alice whispered. ”Did you get him?”