The void swallowed him whole.
Kai crashed to the ground, the gateway slamming shut behind him with a sound like a dying star. His bones cracked. Blood oozed from his lips. His vision blurred.
> "Where… am I?"
The landscape stretched endlessly in all directions, a twisted canvas of darkness and broken stars. Gravity pulled at him in strange directions. The air was thin, burning his lungs with every breath.
Above him, the sky wept black rain. The land was cracked glass and dying metal, an alien world lost to madness.
Kai tried to summon his magic.
Nothing.
Panic set in like wildfire. He forced his hand open—no arcane circles, no void energy, not even a flicker of strength.
> "No…" he rasped.
"My power—where is it?"
Something had stolen it.
Something was watching him.
The whispers grew louder, echoing in a language older than creation itself. A monstrous presence brushed against his mind, cold and infinite.
> "We see you, child of two worlds," the voice crooned.
"You cracked the seal. You set us free."
Kai staggered to his feet. He was alone in a place that should not exist. The alien world twisted around him—spires of bone and steel stabbing the sky, rivers of black mercury flowing uphill.
Ahead, monstrous shapes stirred. Their bodies were wrong — a mix of bone, flesh, and screaming metal. Eyes blinked from impossible places. Teeth gnashed on limbs that bent the wrong way.
The creatures smelled him.
Hunted him.
And he was powerless.
---
Back in the Realms...
Ben stood atop the shattered cliffs, gazing down at the chaos.
Nyxendra, the ancient villain once thought defeated, stood beside him—alive and fully restored.
> "He's trapped," Ben said, a wicked grin curling his lips.
"Kai will die out there. And when he does… the Void Crown will fall to us."
Nyxendra's alien blood shimmered.
They had formed an alliance, ancient magic and alien science fused into something horrific.
Together, they would conquer both realms.
> "Let him suffer," Nyxendra whispered.
"He deserves it for daring to defy the ancients."
---
Back to Kai…
The monsters charged.
Kai ran, limping, heart pounding. Every breath tore at his lungs. His blood left a crimson trail behind him.
The first creature—a beast stitched from alien technology and rotting flesh—lunged. Its claws raked across his side, tearing flesh and bone. Kai screamed.
He fought back with his fists, but he was human now. Mortal. Weak.
Another monster slammed into him, knocking him into a cracked spire. Blood poured from his wounds.
> "This is how I die…" Kai thought, tears mixing with rain.
"Forgotten. Alone."
The Forgotten God laughed in the dark.
> "You could live…" it whispered.
"You could rise again… if you just say my name…"
Kai clenched his teeth. He would rather die than become a puppet.
Another monster reared up, jaws opening wide enough to swallow him whole.
Suddenly—
A flash of silver.
A spear made of starlight plunged through the creature's skull.
A girl stood there — cloaked in ragged robes, silver blood leaking from her hands.
> "Get up," she barked.
"If you want to live, fight!"
Kai blinked, dizzy.
Who was she? Why was she helping him?
No time.
The monsters kept coming.
---
The Journey Begins
They ran together — through dead cities, across rivers of blood, through forests of metallic thorns.
The girl introduced herself in short gasps: Selene.
A Seeker of Lost Suns, a rebel against the Forgotten God.
> "You cracked the ancient seal," she said, dragging him into an abandoned fortress.
"Now it's awake. Now everything will die unless we stop it."
Kai collapsed against the wall. His wounds were deep. His powers were gone.
> "I can't stop anything," he rasped.
"I can't even save myself."
Selene slapped him, hard.
> "Kings don't whimper," she snapped.
"Get up."
For a moment, something stirred in Kai's chest—a flicker of defiance.
Maybe he was powerless now.
Maybe he was broken.
But he was still Kai.
Still the son of two worlds.
Still the Void King.
And he would not kneel to monsters.
---
Meanwhile… in the depths of space
Ben and Nyxendra stood before an ancient, alien altar — a construct older than the stars.
They offered blood.
They offered souls.
And the Forgotten God…
...opened its eye.
The first wave of true horrors spilled into the Realms—creatures made of living nightmares, alien titans born from dying suns.
The war had begun.
The fortress shook.
Screams of alien beasts echoed through the metallic halls, their claws scratching against ancient stone. Kai stood beside Selene, his broken body wrapped in blood-soaked bandages. His heart pounded — not with strength, but stubborn rage.
The monsters were coming.
And he had nothing left.
No magic. No strength. No allies… except a girl whose silver eyes hid more pain than kindness.
Selene pressed a cracked blade into his hand.
> "You bleed," she whispered. "Good. That means you're still alive."
Outside, the ground ruptured.
A titan of bone and circuitry, twice the size of a mountain, rose from the horizon. Its eyes — a thousand burning red suns — focused on them.
> "The Reclaimer," Selene whispered. "The Forgotten God's first servant."
Kai tightened his grip on the blade. His hands shook.
He had no magic. No void energy. Only raw hatred.
> "If I die," he said, gritting his teeth, "I'll die fighting."
Selene smiled — not kindly, but like a warrior.
> "That's the only way worth dying."
---
The First Battle
They burst from the fortress as the monsters attacked.
The sky rained black blood.
Alien horrors stormed the ruins — tentacles, fangs, serrated wings, screaming from mouths that were never meant to speak.
Kai roared.
He drove the cracked blade through the first beast's heart, wrenching it free in a spray of acidic blood. Another lunged — he ducked under its claws, slashing its throat open.
Selene fought like a storm, her silver blood igniting her strikes with strange power. She cut down monsters twice her size with brutal efficiency.
Still, they were overwhelmed.
> "This way!" Selene shouted, grabbing his hand.
They ran through twisted streets, past bodies, past forgotten machines still humming with alien life. Every corner, every shadow held teeth.
Kai killed and killed — until his arms ached, until his vision turned red.
But it wasn't enough.
The Reclaimer smashed through buildings like toys, its voice a deafening choir of the damned.
> "Submit," it screamed. "Submit to the Forgotten One!"
Kai stumbled, coughing blood. His legs refused to move.
He collapsed, sword slipping from his fingers.
The Reclaimer raised a fist larger than a fortress — to crush him like an insect.
Selene threw herself over Kai, screaming a war cry.
The world turned white.
---
Vision of the Void
Kai found himself floating — somewhere outside reality.
He saw the Realms crumbling. Cities falling. Stars devoured.
And at the center of it all…
The Forgotten God.
It was beyond size, beyond form — a being of eyes, mouths, tendrils, made of black suns and broken prayers. It saw Kai.
It knew him.
> "You are mine," it whispered.
Kai clutched his chest. His heart was burning. His soul was unraveling.
A choice lay before him:
Submit and become the Forgotten God's puppet…
Fight and likely die alone and powerless.
He remembered the faces of those he loved.
Aayla. Riven. Even Ben — before betrayal.
He clenched his fists.
> "I am Kai," he snarled.
"And I bow to no one!"
---
New Awakening
The Void within him shattered — and rebuilt itself.
Not as it was.
Stronger. Sharper. Darker.
A surge of new power flooded his veins — different from before. No longer pure void. Now, it was mixed with something ancient, something fierce.
He snapped awake — just as the Reclaimer's blow fell.
Kai caught it with one hand.
The titan screeched in shock.
Kai's eyes blazed — not purple anymore, but a burning silver-black.
> "My turn."
With a roar, Kai drove his fist into the Reclaimer's chest.
The titan exploded in a supernova of blood and mechanical debris.
---
Final Stand
Kai and Selene fought back-to-back, carving through the monstrous army.
Every step Kai took left burning footprints on the ground. His new powers bent reality itself — blades of pure death sprang from his hands, void chains crushed alien gods into dust.
Selene smiled through bloodstained lips.
> "You found it," she whispered.
"The true Void."
Still, the enemy was endless.
From the skies, massive winged beasts descended. From below, molten giants rose.
And at the center — Ben and Nyxendra watched from a floating fortress, safe and smug.
> "Let him exhaust himself," Ben said.
"Then we take what's left."
---
Betrayal Unveiled
As Kai carved through the last of the beasts, Selene staggered. Blood poured from a wound in her side.
Kai rushed to her.
> "Selene—!"
"Go," she gasped, pushing him. "There's no time!"
A shadow fell over them.
Ben descended from the fortress, armored in black and silver alien tech, wielding a blade that dripped reality itself.
> "You should have died, Kai," Ben said coldly.
"Now you'll wish you had."
Kai faced him, heart heavy.
This was his brother-in-arms once.
Now, just another enemy.
> "Why, Ben?" Kai asked.
"Why betray us?"
Ben's smile was bitter.
> "Because I saw the truth. The Realms are dying. Only the Forgotten God can save us. You are just another chain around our necks."
He attacked.
---
The Bloody Duel
The battle shook the world.
Ben fought like a demon, every strike fueled by ancient alien technology. His blade tore through reality itself, unraveling the ground beneath Kai's feet.
Kai countered with raw Void power — tearing apart the laws of physics around them, weaving death into every movement.
They bled.
They screamed.
They broke the earth.
Selene watched, unable to help, her wounds too grave.
Ben drove his blade into Kai's stomach — a sickening crunch.
Kai gasped, blood bubbling from his lips.
Ben leaned close.
> "Goodbye, brother."
But in that final moment, as death closed in, something deeper awoke inside Kai.
Not just Void.
Not just rage.
Hope.
He caught Ben's wrist, snapped it with a sickening crack, and drove his own broken sword through Ben's chest.
Ben gasped. His eyes widened.
> "You… were supposed to… lose…"
Kai whispered:
> "I don't lose. Not today."
Ben collapsed, the light leaving his eyes.
---
Aftermath
The alien fortress began to crumble. The Forgotten God roared in distant rage, its plans shattered… for now.
Kai staggered to Selene.
She smiled weakly.
> "You won," she said.
"For now."
Kai collapsed beside her, exhausted beyond words.
He had saved the Realms.
But he had paid a terrible price.
His powers were fractured. His heart broken. His allies gone. His soul scarred.
And deep in the endless void…
The Forgotten God still waited.
Still watching.
Still hungering.
This was not the end.
Only the beginning.