Disclaimers/Authors Notes: The second part of chapter 18 and the last chapter! Hope this takes off well, it’s the big battle! Full of gore, violence and fast paced action. Make sure yer all old enough kids! I found out that Tso Lan’s name is pronounced Tso Lon, so the spelling changes in this chap.

Summery: The battle begins! Who will be the victor and how high will the losses be?

The cry was like that of a horn baying for battle, a wolf howling for his pack to hunt. Shendu’s hand rose and fell and his forces swarmed forward, diving at the smaller group before them.

Puck began to play the pipe he had brought with him…and from behind Jade and the others, a force of elvan knights, warriors and huntsmen rose from the shadows. The sound of a beating drum filled the air, the call to arms, to battle had been sounded for the Seelie!

Hsi Wu roared, his voice echoing across the field, causing several lesser Unseelie to halt and flee. The Huntsmen drove their mounts forward, meeting shadow khan and dark Sidhe knights in a clash of metal upon metal and the sound of horses screams.

Tso Lon rose into the air, his hands clasped together. He threw his power in front of him, lashing out at his brother in a violent thrust. Hsi Wu rose into the air and let loose a ray of freezing death on those below. Beside him, Kiao-Tsu flew, meeting one of the dark wyverns that flew with the Unseelie head on.

Jade, Valmont, the Enforcers and others on foot charged into the fray, their weapons and the arrival of help gave them a battle lust bordering on berserker fury! Valmont’s war cry sounded far to inhuman to have come from the crime lord. Jade swung the sword, slicing through the dark elf knight in front of her, cutting him neatly in half. She slipped into a fighting stance and lashed out with her foot to the right. The bogin in front of her head snapped back, blood spurting from it’s misshapen nose.

* * * *

Another crack of lighting lit the sky up, burning Tso Lon’s eye’s for a moment and causing him to loose sight of Shendu. When his vision cleared, Tso Lon couldn’t see his brother anywhere.

The Moon demon snapped his head left and right, searching for the Fire demon. Shendu had disappeared!

“Looking for me, brother?” Shendu’s nauseating hiss filled his ears and he looked up, finding the demon possessed Unseelie floating above his head. “You always were too slow, Tso Lon.” He dove at the Demon Sorcerer, mouth open wide as a stream of flame shot from his jaws.

Tso Lon didn’t move, his brother came closer… “And you, Shendu, have always been too gullible!” Moving with uncanny speed, he darted from his brother’s path and striking him with a blast as he hurtled past, sending Shendu careening of course and crashing into the woods.

Tso Lon was not as foolish as to believe his younger sibling was injured or incapacitated. No, in fact he quickly shifted to a better stance, arms out spread. He erected his dark shield just in time as a wave of shearing flame burst over it, paining the Moon demon’s eyes but doing him no serious harm.

Shendu’s hands were now glowing and it was then that Tso Lon realised that Mordred Dhu was now in control of his own body. Those hands, he knew, had the touch of death. If they were laid on him, he would have the life sucked from his form and would tumble down drained and an empty shell.

He levitated several feet further away, leaving the Sidhe to chase him. He need to stall until he could find a way to shoot the two of them down. His powers of gravity were little use against something with a dark shield on. He need to find a weakness and fast.

* * * *

Hsi Wu tightened his coils around one of the dark wyverns. Strangling the life from the wretched thing and listening to the bones crunch beneath him. He let it drop into the main body of the army, crushing several of it’s fellows.

He glided back a few feet and felt a sharp stinging pain near his hind leg. He twisted around to see what it was and found an arrow in his side. He reached down and yanked it free, sniffing the arrow head to scent for a curse. Luckily, there wasn’t one and he tossed it away and quickly shrank his form down. He would be able to fight better and be a less easy target that way.

When he was back in his true form, he looped over to avoid another arrow aimed for his chest. As he was upside down, he spotted Jade. She was surrounded by an group of Shadow khan and try as she might, she could strike them all with the blade. Although the ones she did hit seemed to be sucked into the sword itself.

The Sky demon swooped down, landing on one of the ‘khan itself. It vanished beneath his heels. He grabbed another by the neck and snapped the shadow creatures spine, his tail lashed out and caught a second one trying to sneak up on him from behind, knocking it back onto Jade’s blade.

It didn’t make a sound as the blade devoured it. Hsi Wu then noticed that more of the shadow khan stepped in to fill where those had fallen, they seemed endless!

Making a split second discission, he grabbed Jade around the waist and leapt into the air, fanning his wings hard as he gained altitude. Jade twisted around and the demon shifted his grip on her so her back was against his chest.

Jade narrowed her eyes and pointed ahead of them. “Hey! Tso Lon’s over there!”

Hsi Wu followed her finger, he hissed when he saw Mordred Dhu (or was it Shendu?) trying to pierce the Moon demon’s shield. The Unseelie Sidhe’s hands were glowing with a power that the Sky demon recognised instinctively as Death touch.

From below them, the piper (was it Puck? Or was it one of the others?) played to new heights, filling the Seelie/Human army with a deep thrill. The demon quickly tossed Jade over his shoulder, giving her a few moments to scramble around until she rode on him piggy-back style before he sped towards the duo.

* * * *

Tso Lon’s shields were fading, the Moon demon was gathering his strength behind them, watching as Shendu and Mordred continued to pummel against the dark force field. He floated back a few feet, readying himself.

Then he nearly gasped in shock as the Sidhe/Demon cryed out and a spray of wet blood filled the air between them. He looked past Shendu to see a grey-blue blur zoom away, only to stop in mid air. Hsi Wu screamed in victory and held up on bloody talon, Jade clinging to his back..

The Moon demon took the opportunity, he felt the energy spread from the centre of his biody outwards, flowing along his arms to his fingers. He nearly roared as the power loosed itself from his restrictive form and blasted towards Shendu.

It struck the demon/elf on the chest and hurled him towards the ground. This time, he crashed into the clearing ground. The power didn’t stop there, Tso Lon turned himself to where the a large majority of Shendu’s army was re-grouping and allowed the power to tear the ground up as it cut through the ranks. He crushed the weak fae and ‘khan into the earth, feeling their bodies snap and become crushed under his magic.

He lowered himself to the ground, stepping over to where Shendu lay, his body broken and twisted from the gravity blast. Tso Lon’s picked him up by the neck using one of his main arms, His brother’s mortal body flopped, but the eyes opened slowly and the Fire demon vomited blood. A few drops of the sticky red liquid landed on Tso Lon’s cheek, the Moon demon licked it off with one flick of his long tongue.

“Shendu, you really were a fool to believe you could beat your older brother.” Tso Lon didn’t bother to keep the smug tone from his voice, let the wretch know that he had been defeated, that he was the weak one.

Shendu laughed, a watery, thick sound. “No brother….It is you who are the fool!” With that, he slammed his claw tipped hand into Tso Lon’s chest, slicing his talons down as he cut the demon from rib cage to stomach.

* * * *

Jade saw Tso Lon fall, blood spurting like a fountain from his chest and gut. It seemed like an endless river of crimson and half of her though that there was no way anyone could have so much inside them. Not even a demon.

Her mind was blank and cold, her heard someone making a strangling screaming sound and realised it was her. The world seemed to slow for that time, like a move viewed frame by frame. The Moon demon collapsed and Shendu landed on his feet, red eyes glowing, laughing in a high pitched way. It sound like madness given voice, a spiralling cackling noise that drowned out Jade’s screams and Hsi Wu’s shrieks of rage and grief.

Jade felt her hand tighten on the sword, her throat raw from her screams. She managed yo stop, to think. Her mind filled with a rage, red and all consuming. It burned like a flame, it filled her with a want. A want purely to make Shendu suffer.

The Sky demon swooped and Jade leapt off and soon as they were near the ground, she ran towards where Shendu was now facing off with the demon of Sky and Snow. She wanted to rip Shendu apart, to tear that flesh from his body, but she needed to see if Tso Lon was alive, if he could be saved.

She stepped over to the Moon demon’s body, here the ground was slick with blood. It soaked the earth and Jade had to be careful not to slip. She glanced behind her and saw that, luckily, all of the Unseelie or whatever else was against them were to busy fighting to mind her.

Slowly she approached Tso Lon, he was lying on his back, his breaths were raspy and wet. Jade didn’t know much about anatomy but she guessed that his lungs had been punctured and blood was flooding in. He was drowning in his own viscera, if he didn’t die of blood loss first. His chest was sliced open and the cut lead down to his stomach, the ragged edges of his robes were stuck to the cut, soaking some of the blood up. His entrails glistened wetly and Jade had to stop herself from gagging.

It was when she saw his face that she began to cry, the long features were twisted in pain and more blood had splattered his face. A small river of the dark red liquid trickled form the corner of his mouth; coating his mandibles and long tongue. His red eyes were open (The same colour as the blood that covered his body!) and the agony shone in there too.

“Tso Lon?” Jade whispered, tears running thick and fast down her cheeks.

His head turned towards her a fraction and he drew a shuddering wet breath, his lungs had to filling fast. His eyes didn’t seem to focus for a moment.

“Ja…de…” His voice sounded as bad as his breathing, choked and soft.

“Don’t…” She tried to say ‘don’t talk’ but her throat seemed to have closed on her and she couldn’t get the words out.

He began to sit up, painfully. More blood flowed from the wound to soak the ground below them.

“Don’t move, please…” She sobbed. She tried to hold him, support him or make him sit back. Anything to stop his life from flowing away.

The Moon demon fell back against her and Jade held him tightly, trying to hold him there, stop him fading from her. She prayed to any god that was listening, anyone, to make him live, to make him hold on.

“Jade…” He turned towards her, facing her. A grisly smile spread across his face and his tongue flicked up, tasting her tears. He laid his head on her chest, eyes on her face.

“I’ll….get help, someone must be able to…” She made to get up, to lay him down again as she ran to get someone.

Tso Lon grabbed her with both of his lower arms, he still had a surprising amount of strength left.

“Don’t…go...” he hissed.

Jade nodded and settled back down, holding his head in her arms. She undid his top knot, running her fingers through his blood-matted hair. It flowed down over her fingers and hands.

Tso Lon sighed, his eyes closed for a moment and he drew another struggling breath . When he opened them again, Jade could see blood stained tears sliding down his cheeks.

“Jaa…de.” With that last breath, the Moon demon died. His eyes open and staring, unseeing, up into the face of the one woman he loved.

Jade pressed her lips to his fore-head, tears dripping onto the Demon Sorcerer’s still body. She swallowed her sobs, felt them try to claw their way free.

She needed to be strong now, if only until this was over. She needed to seek revenge.

To kill Shendu.

She rose to her feet, gripping the sword in one hand, lowering Tso Lon’s head to the ground slowly. Jade walked in measured steps towards the Fire Demon, blood hungry rage burning in her.

* * * *

Hsi Wu was nearly blinded by his tears of grief, he struck out again and again at Shendu, each time drawing blood from his elder brother’s weakened body. But each time, Shendu returned his blows.

The Sky demon panted, spitting blood from his mouth. “You’ll pay for Tso Lon’s death brother!”

“If neither of you had been stupid enough to go against me in the first place, you both could have avoided his death.” Shendu replied, breathing hard.

“You would have killed us anyway so you could be in this world! So now you’ll see the inside of hell instead!” Hsi Wu screamed a cry part animal, part metallic and charged his brother again.

“After you, brother!” Shedu shouted back, opening his mouth and breathing a stream of flame.

The Sky demon narrowly dodged it and raised his razor clawed hand. “Feel the kiss of my claws, Shendu!” He sliced the Fire demon/Unseelie’s face, tearing the skin open.

Shendu’s hand shot up and grabbed his younger sibling by the neck, Hsi Wu screeched and twisted, trying to slip his brother’s iron grip.

“You always were too hot-headed, younger brother.” Shendu smirked. “If you had thought first instead of rushing in then you wouldn’t have to die. Give my regards to Tso Lon when you see him.” Shendu raised his hand, fingers straight and aimed for the other demon’s throat.

“Shendu!” A voice cried out. Shendu turned to find Jade standing a few feet away. “Tell him yourself!” and before the demon could run or twist aside, the sword’s blade pieced his body, running him through and coming out the other side.

Shendu choked, blood poured from his mouth and his eyes were wide open in shock. He tried to abandon Mordred Dhu, leave him to his fate, but the sword wouldn’t let him. He felt his form being dragged away, sucked into the blade. He screamed long and loud as the body he inhabited collapsed.

* * * *

Shendu opened his eyes to find himself in dragon form. He flexed his muscles and grinned. The girl hadn’t killed him after all! In fact, she had restored his body to him!

He laughed aloud, he would return to the world, to rule it once more. Nothing could stop him now, he was-

A soft chuckle interrupted his glee, the Fire demon turned around.

Ku-Cheng stood there and Kamoko, looming above the demon. He barely came up to their wrists.

Shendu swallowed hard and looked around for some means of escape.

“I’m pleased you could join us, Shendu. I see you remember Ku-Cheng and I.” Kamoko, the Lung Wang, said. Her sea green eyes glowing with sweet revenge.

Shedu began to back away from the two kami, stumbling towards the wall. As both kami drew in for the kill, Shendu screamed again. A fear filled, terror laced scream.

Then there was nothing.

* * * *

The Unseelie turned to see their master lying dead on the ground. They turned back to see the Seelie arm advancing and many of their fellows lying dead on the ground.

All heart left them and they faded into the shadows, leaving this lands soil and heading back to the dark Elfhame.

Valmont slumped against Jackie (Who had turned up later in the battle) and the two slid to the ground back to back, to exhausted to say anything. Finn slapped Chow on the back and cheered as the enemy retreated, Ratso‘s voice soon joined with theirs. Uncle breathed a sigh of relief as the last of the shadow khan disappeared and Tohru handed back the dead lizard he had been holding. Kiao-Tsu landed next to Valmont and threw back her head, roaring in triumph at their victory.

The Seelie’s cheers of victory rose into the night sky. But only two figures didn’t join them.

Jade stood near the body of Mordred Dhu, the sword had dropped from her nub fingers to the ground. Landing with a clatter. Hsi Wu was crouched above Mordred Dhu’s body, tearing the ruined heart from his chest and devouring it. Taking his enemies power from him, preventing him from being resurrected.

He rose and stood next to Jade, one arm slowly encircled her waist. “Jade?” his raspy voice whispered.

She looked at him, tears filling her eyes and falling onto the ground. “He’s gone, Hsi Wu. I tried but…but….” She couldn’t hold it in any longer, she had been brave for this long, for this far. She may have been a tom-boy, but now…now she needed to weep for Tso Lon, someone needed to.

She fell against the Sky demon and sobbed into his chest, real crying was messier than the movies would have you believe. Hsi Wu arms enfolded her and held her, holding her together as he poured out the little broken bits of herself onto him.

When her tears subsided, she looked up at him, wiping her nose and the tears from her face as best possible. “We…We ought to bury him. He deserves it.”

“Yes, precious, he does.” The endearment helped some what and the two parted from one another and slowly moved towards the Moon demon’s body.

They nearly fell over with shock at the sight of the giant kami standing over Tso Lon’s prone form. Yokuni raised his golden eyes to the duo and smiled warmly.

“I have come to collect my payment, demon.” he said, his warm golden voice wrapped Jade in the feeling of comfort.

“No! Not my brother’s body!” Hsi Wu leapt over to Yokuni and landed on all fours over the body, growling at the kami.

“Be at ease, little demon. I have come to restore what has been taken from you. Tso Lon will live again, but he will remain in the Old realm. A demon of that world alone.”

Hsi Wu looked at the kami in shock, he then slowly moved himself from his dead brothers body and sat on his hunches near it, tail lashing in agitation.

Jade moved up behind him and stood next to him, Yokuni stared at her and smiled. “I also believe you have now someone who cares for you. I will leave you both to get acquainted.” with that, he bent down and lifted Tso Lon’s body into his mouth and vanished.

Hsi Wu got to his feet and turned towards Jade. “The sly dragon knew all along.” He muttered.

Jade grinned at him and put her arms around his neck. For once Hsi Wu didn’t have a clue what to do, he looked surprised and uncertain.

“I thought…uh…” His voice was rather shaky now.

Jade didn’t know what to say, she had loved Tso Lon but…not like she had loved Hsi Wu…and now that Tso Lon was alive again, or would be, she wanted…Hsi.

She decided to settle this once and for all.

She kissed him.

The Sky demon was shocked silent, slowly he opened his mouth and admitted her in. Wrapping his arms around her waist, he slowly folded his wings over them both, obscuring them both from view.

The cheers and the celebrations lasted long into the night.

* * * *

Tso Lon sat outside the small gathering place. One of his hands resting against the bark of the trunk, his heart ached with what he knew.

Jade was Hsi Wu’s.

It hurt like nothing ever had before. He wanted it to stop but it didn’t, it wouldn’t.

“Hey.” A soft voice behind him made him jump and he whirled around to see a mortal girl, about 16 or 17 with long curly brown hair standing behind him. She wore small gold edged glasses, she was slight plump, long legged and had grey-green eyes. She was dressed in human clothing, black jeans and a black tight sweater.

Tso Lon glared at her. “Can you not tell when to leave someone alone? I wish not to have my privacy invaded!”

She flinched. “Yeah, sorry. But you looked kinda alone out here.”

“Can you not tell a demon when you see one?”

She looked embarrassed. “I guess you must be the Moon demon my guardian keeps talking to Yokuni about. I’m Alex by the way.” She held out her hand.

He looked at the tiny human appendage for a moment, thinking. He felt a little of the ache fade, and he clasped it in his own. “I am Tso Lon.”

She smiled at him. “I suppose you wouldn’t know me, I was one of those Yokuni invited when he let you go to the human world with that Sky demon thing.”

Tso Lon nodded, but didn’t let go of her hand. “My brother.”

“Yeah. Umm…I don’t suppose you’d like to go for a walk?”

Tso Lon nodded. “I would be honoured.”

If there had been a passer by, he would have noticed a ten foot tall demon floating next to a five foot five mortal girl. A passer by might just have caught a few sentences that passed from one to another.

“Gravity? Cool! I should have some powers of my own, but I can’t cast a single spell without it back firing. I set Avral’s hair on fire once. Neimuun told me I should stay away from magery and just try and concentrate on school work, she sounds like my mother sometimes..”

“I would be pleased to teach you some of the arts. I myself have studied many, would your guardian approve?”

“Oh yeah, sure he would! Can you teach me to fight as well? I mean, I can punch really well but I’m useless at anything else.”

The same passer-by would have watched the two walk away into the cherry tree forest, talking as they went. That same passer by might have wondered why the Moon demon offered the girl a strange amulet or why the girl seemed so bashful.

But there was no passer by except Yokuni, who smiled. A kami knows exactly how to help someone meet their mate.

Tso Lon would find the girl, who was like Jade Chan in a number of ways, exactly who he had dreamed of.

Mind you, Avral wasn’t going to be pleased.

Yokuni laughed long and loud and vanished in a swirl of sakura petals. His mirth remained behind much longer.

End of chapter 19 and the series.

Heh, I hope to god this goes down well and everyone enjoyed the story! R/R and I’m so glad it’s over!

I’m adding the notes soon, thank you for all being so kind. I’d never let Tso Lon die, I love him too much. J

Heee..Tso Lon and meand Jade and Hsi Wu, who’d a thunk it? Yokuni a cheeky bastard. Damn I hope it goes down well. *sweats*