"The Fracture of Fate: The Great Sundering of Setali Beutell"
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"I do not want this anymore… I cannot be part of this ritual after today."
The voice of Hobo Nor Sibion echoed through the ancient ceremonial grove. His tone wasn't of anger
It was of a soul broken.
A silence followed...tense, thick.
And then a sharp, cruel voice pierced the stillness.
.. "Hobo Nor Sibion!"
"You cannot walk away! The ritual must be completed! You are bound by the ancient duty!"
The words came from an elder whose face was hardened by age, tradition, and pride.
But Sibion did not flinch.
He looked at Hobo Norl Fiton, and with a mutual nod of shared sorrow, both turned their backs to the gathering and walked away.
And just as their feet stepped past the sacred circle
CRACK—KRRRRAAAAAGH—!!!
A monstrous fracture split open beneath them.
The earth itself screamed.
The ritual ground cracked into two colossal halves, like the beginning of a world's end.
Screams erupted in the crowd. Panic surged.
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Meanwhile…
Doma and Deffo soared through the void beyond, streaking like a comet through the whispering blackness of the stars.
Deffo, still shaken, clung tightly to Doma's back.
His voice trembled
"Doma… stop. Something's wrong. I can feel it..."
But Doma didn't stop.
He had already sensed it.
The vibration.
The hum.
The pulse of something ancient… and catastrophic.
And then, without warning
BOOOOOMMMMM....!!!
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The Big Bang ... The Great Shattering
Time… collapsed.
Light… folded.
Reality itself... fractured.
In less than a breath, the very core of Setali Beutell exploded.
A billion fiery shards...molten fragments of a once-living world...hurled into the infinite dark.
The explosion wasn't fire.
It was cosmic pain.
Roaring, swirling, unstoppable
Massive clouds of glowing energy twisted into spirals.
Plasma storms churned like thunder gods reborn.
Every breath of matter was torn asunder, reduced to cascading starfall.
The dust alone was so dense, so vast, it painted the sky like a curtain of liquid lava.
From afar, it looked like the universe was bleeding.
Setali Beutell
A world of light and lore
Was gone.
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A Wave of Doom
From the heart of destruction, a monstrous wave of energy hurtled toward Doma and Deffo.
Doma's eyes flashed.
His instincts surged like lightning.
In one swift motion, he curled his front limbs tightly around Deffo, wrapping him with his wings.
His black, celestial body arched like a living shield.
And then
FWWWWAAAAARRRRGHHH!!!
The wave struck them with the force of a dying sun.
The impact sent them flying...spinning across the void....through clouds of shattered matter and flame.
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Eventually,
they crashed into a still, silent patch of the inner void.
Here, the wave died.
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Silence… Despair… and Ruin.
Deffo slowly opened his eyes.
What he saw shattered him.
Where once a world bloomed...now only wreckage remained.
Ashes.
Glowing ruin.
The death of a realm.
His heart broke beyond repair.
He collapsed in Doma's hold, sobbing violently
his body convulsing, his chest gasping for air.
Tears streamed like rivers.
Screams tore from his throat, but no voice came out.
Only breathless grief.
He could not breathe through the pain.
He could not think through the ruin.
He could only cry.
For the world he loved.
For the home he lost.
For the truth that he…
was the last one left.
And there, amidst the ashes of Setali Beutell…
Doma, mighty celestial beast,
lowered his head in solemn respect
A silent bow…
for a world…
that would never return.