Previously on "The Chaos Within":-

"Who in the hell are you?!" Arthas asked while pointing his sword at the black knight.

"L... eo?" Nyxx's lips shivered with tears going down her cheeks.

The red beast eye flickered with a red glow and so, the evil grin drew all over the black knight's lips.

Looks like our Serial Killer is back from the dead. And looks like a bloody battle is about to go down in Utopia.

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"I see, so that's the deceased human brother of yours!" Arthas smirked while glaring at Nyxx then back at Leo.

The bulky male stared at Alexander, both of them clenched their fists, they had a long history together after all.

"Armagedon!"Alexander gritted his teeth.

"Xander!" Armagedon smiled at him.

Alexandra and Chloe stared at the Queen. The queen was walking to them while holding her wand, Alexandra and Chloe did the same. The queen raised her wand, Alexandra unsheathed her sword and Chloe created an ice sword.

"Time to deal with this old fart!" Alexandra gritted her teeth.

"Agreed!" Chloe frowned.

"How rude!" The Queen exclaimed.

She charged at them, Alexandra used her high speed to reach the queen and swung her one-handed sword at her, so did Chloe.

The queen twisted her wand and raised it up, blocking Alexandra's swing while Chloe ran to her side in an attempt to slice her side with her ice sword but to their shock, the queen used her left hand to catch the sword mid-air like it was a toy.

She thrust her knee towards Alexandra's stomach, upon the impact Alexandra was flung 5 meters backward.

Chloe forged another ice sword in her left hand and swung it at the queen but the queen blocked it with her wand, she then struck Chloe's right side with her left toe, tossing her six meters backward like she was a football.

Both Alexandra and Chloe rolled on the ground and stood on their feet again.

"She's too strong." Chloe stood up, sighing.

The queen had that displeased look while walking towards them, things weren't going well for Chloe and Alexandra.

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Armagedon and Xander stood there, doing nothing but staring at each other for the time being, no one knew why but these two had some immense atmosphere around them. Each of them was waiting for the other one to make the first move.

"This will get us to nowhere", Armagedon rubbed his neck.

"Agreed, it will end up with a draw like the last twenty times"

"How about a bet then?"

"What do you have in mind?"

"I'll bet on that young man in the black armor, you'll bet on your third Lieutenant"

"Fine, how much are we betting?"

"All of your playboy collection!"

"WHAT?!!"

"I'll bet my newest editions as well, to make it fair."

Xander scratched his neck, he was obviously irritated but, he had no other choice.

"Fine, as long as we exclude the hentai collections!"

"Deal!"

Armagedon grinned and charged at Alexader, thrusting a mighty powerful punch at Alexander, Xader raised his shield to block it.

A massive shockwave resulted from the impact.

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Explosions occurred at the center of the arena, Arthas was shooting laser rays at Leo. Leo jumped right and left until he saw one of the laser rays about to pierce his forehead, he quickly smashed the ground with his right toe, using his brute strength to thrust himself to his left. That's when Arthas appeared to his left and swung his sword towards Leo's torso, Leo quickly withdrew his combat knife and tried to intercept the hit, the knife intercepted Arthas's sword but the impact flung Leonardo backward easily, he couldn't match up with Arthas's powerful swing.

Leonardo rolled on the ground before quickly jumping on his feet before pulling the string on his bow, shooting an arrow at Arthas. Arthas threw his sword towards the arrow then used his high speed to reach Leo's back. Leo could see him but couldn't react in time. Upon the impact, the arrow exploded into the sword and Arthas quickly smashed his toe at Leonardo's back, Leonardo was flung towards the arena's wall. He was smashed to it. That's when Leo saw a vision of a door and some entity surrounded by a prison with dark red energy flowing around him but then, he felt Arthas's kick to his torso, tossing him up to the sky.

Cough!

He coughed blood until he felt Arthas's grip around his neck, choking him.

Arthas was standing in the air thanks to his magic, the magic around his toes allowed him to defy gravity just like light does.

"It sucks you can't talk, we could have had a lovely conversation before your demise!"

*Clunk* *Clunk* *Clunk*

Arthas raised an eyebrow, he stared down at Leo's right hand and noticed a black combat knife that just hit his armor, but his armor easily blocked it without even a scratch. Leo was stabbing into his armor in a weak faint attempt while keeping his grin.

Arthas got irritated, he forged a light sword and sliced down Leonardo's right arm completely. Leo was shocked, he saw his right arm falling down with so much blood flowing out of his shoulder.

Nyxx was crying, mumbling to herself in a faint low tone, "No!".

Arthas threw Leonardo to the ground from such a high altitude. Leo was smashed into the ground as he felt his bones cracking. He tried to get up but then, he felt about five swords piercing his body, two from the back, two from the front, and the fifth was Arhtas's sword piercing his chest. Leonardo fell on his knees right then.

"Not again, please", Nyxx tried to crawl to Leonardo. She didn't want to see her brother dying again, every time she remembered how he died in her arms she feels like she's drowning and dying slowly.

"Looks like you're losing this bet, Armagedon"

Armagedon was sweating, he wanted to get past Alexander to reach the duo.

"If you'll interfere then, so will I!", Xander warned him.

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"This is all your fault, YOU KILLED YOUR SISTER, YOU KILLED ALEX!"

**Flashback of Alexandra's dead body on the ground bleeding**

"This is all your fault"

**Flashback of Leonardo's mother's dead body in their house**

"Stay like that, that's how low you are compared to everyone else"

"Is that how you treat your father, LEONARDO MY BOY?!"

Leonardo found himself on his knees on a dark ground, all tired and exhausted with his right shoulder bleeding so much. He was in some strange world inside his subconscious.

"Struggling... I keep struggling over and over and over again, almost like there's a universal law made by God to reject me out of existence, to ruin everything that's connected to me... a curse attached to my back-" He spoke in a weak, faint tone.

**Flashback of his father when he held Kira by her hair and stabbed her with the Schmitter**

*Tears were dripping down Leonardo's cheeks while he's gazing at the sky*

"... Why am I even bothering? It's so frustrating-"

**Flashback of his father when he was teaching Leo how to use magic, "You have to keep trying, keep. Trying!"**

"Keep trying? For what?-"

*Clunk* *Clunk* *Clunk*

"Huh?", Leo peeked towards the sound source, he saw a strange entity in a mantle behind a large cell with large bars, the entity was striking the bars with his sword non-stop, using all his might but all his attempts were failing, the bars were too strong against his sword. The same entity he saw in that vision while fighting Arthas.

"What're you doin-"

The entity moved his left hand between the bars, having his palm spread towards Leonardo.

"I see, you... have been trying to reach me all these years-"

"Authority Authority *Clunk* Authority Authority Authority!" The entity kept yelling the words while striking the bars.

Leo raised an eyebrow upon hearing the word, "Authority? What is that?"

The entity keeps trying and trying and every now and then he moves his left arm as much as possible between the bars, trying desperately to reach Leonardo even though Leonardo was distant from him.

Leonardo couldn't prevent his sobs.

"You've been trying again and again just like me... and I was the one who put you there... ever since that cursed day"

*Flashback of Alexandra's death, while Leo was fighting the witch hunters, that entity's top upper half was above Leo, swinging his sword along with him but, after Leonardo saw Avril crying with Alex in her arms, he gave the entity one last look before looking away from it, that's when the entity extended his arm and spread his hand to Leo while vanishing slowly, trying to reach out to Leo, refusing to let go of him but, unfortunately, Leo let go of the entity, that's when Leo fell on his knees, having his subconscious sealing his powers away and locking the entity in that prison inside Leonardo's subconscious. The entity kept his hand reached out, waiting, waiting and waiting, he kept trying to break through the large prison's bars with his sword for 8 whole years, trying to reach Leonardo but all his attempts failed*

"Sorry, I can't even remember your name", Words were barely escaping his lips.

"Dammit... that hurts- "

Nyxx's screams, "WAKE UP!"

Alexandra's, "GET UP!"

"Avril?... Alex-"

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*In reality*

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Nyxx screamed.

"KIIIIIIID!" Armagedon yelled.

Armagedon tried to dash quickly to reach Leonardo but Xander got in his way and they both exchanged fists causing explosive shockwaves.

"Out of my way XANDER!"

"Not gonna happen!"

And finally, Arthas's sword stabbed Leonardo in the chest again, this time right through his heart, pinning his body to the ground.

Nyxx crawled with her left toe, slowly towards Leonardo while sobbing until she reached him. Blood was dripping down Leonardo's lips.

"Please, wake up", Nyxx sobbed while shaking his chest faintly in her weak condition.

"Oh... God, that hurts a lot... if you hated me so much... why couldn't you just... kill me with a heart attack... what was... the purpose.... of my... existence anyway?"

Leo coughed blood a few times since his physical body was dying.

Leo could see images of his sister sobbing while shaking. The images were appearing before him in that strange, silent world in his subconscious. The sky was getting darker and darker. The black color was painting the landscape bit by bit as Leonardo's soul was fading away.

And in a faint whisper inside that soon to vanish world, "Ru... n.... you idiot"

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Arthas aimed a laser beam at the duo, "Perfect Target!" before shooting it at them.

Armagedon reached them at a very quick pace and punched into the laser beam with his bare fists.

"GRAAAAAA!"

Sounds like Xander let him slip through since Nyxx was in danger as well.

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"Someone... Someone.... help!", tears were dripping down Leonardo's cheeks while watching his sister by his side while Armagedon is protecting her along with his corpse.

Alexandra swung her sword at the queen and thrust her away, she then used her high speed using wind explosive boost to reach Leo, Armagedon and Nyxx. A giant cyclone formed around them as soon as Alexandra reached them, helping Armagedon with his defense. Chloe reached them as well and formed a medium-sized mountain of Ice to defend them from external attacks.

"Idiots... ", Leo was fading away, darkness was covering his legs, slowly until it crawled up and covered his right half completely, going slowly for his left side. Darkness consumed everything around him, even the sky and its stars are gone, all that's left was his left half slowly being covered by darkness.

"Why won't you just escape... fools... you're gonna... die!"

Chains started to emerge from the dark ground in that world of darkness in his subconscious, wrapping around Leonardo's arms, legs and neck, trying to pull him down to the deep darkness.

The entity started hitting the bars in desperation while Leonardo was sinking slowly into the dark.

"Am I..... gonna die again?" Aguero was terrified, the look on his face was fear of death.

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A group of vampires in black coats arrived at the scene. Their commander stared at the group then the queen.

"Tch, looks like the party's over, and here we thought you needed our help."

The queen looked back at him while twisting her wand, approaching the medium-sized Ice-mountain, "No need, we have it covered"

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Shadows covered Leonardo's body until it reached the left side of his face, soon to cover his body completely.

The queen smashed the ice mountain with her wand, the ice mountain shattered easily by her swing.

Arthas joined his queen, both exchanging blows with Armagedon and Alexandra while Chloe was trying to keep the other vampires away with her ice spikes, shooting at them while they kept dodging right and left.

Armagedon kept exchanging quick blows with the queen, holding his grounds while Alexandra was already exhausted from her fight with Theresa. Arthas kicked her in the torso with his light speed kick, shooting her ten meters away from the group.

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"Run, Avril-", Leo couldn't bear to watch.

Arthas was walking towards Nyxx with a smirk. Armagedon tried to reach them but the Queen got in his path and tried to strike his neck, Armagedon raised both his arms and blocked the wand with his hands.

"DAMMIT!" Armagedon yelled in anger.

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Shadows were slowly covering Leonardo's left eye bit by bit.

"Shit... can't move, my body won't respond-"

Aguero tried to move his arms but could only move his index, his body wasn't responding.

Arthas raised his right toe.

"Stop! Don't you dare, you scum, don't touch her!"

Arthas kicked Nyxx's back while she was trying to shield her brother's dying body. She screamed in pain, her body has already collapsed, she managed to crawl thanks to her willpower but the pain was unbearable. Her tears were pouring down on Leonardo's face while Arthas kept kicking her back and stepping on her wounds, enjoying himself as much as he could. Leonardo's face turned red and he let his fury take over.

"Stop! Don't touch her, I'll fucking kill you, do you hear me, ARTHAS? I'm gonna fucking kill you, I'll come back from the dead and rip your FUCKING THROAT OUT, YOU FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT, YOU BLOODY DOG, I'll FUCKING KILL YOU!"

Leonardo gritted his teeth and tried to master all of his power and pull himself out of the shadows in that strange realm, trying to get up and do something, "Gghaaaaaaaaaaaa!!".

He only managed to raise his left hand, clinching it at Aarthas's image in his subconscious, struggling against the shadows, swinging his arm and legs,

"I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU I"LL FUCKING KILL YOU I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU, ARTHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS!"

"Oh just shut up already!" A voice emerged from the darkness right next to him.

Aguero shifted his gaze at the source of the sound just to have his face held by the unknown male's hand, pushing him further down into the darkness.

"You! I thought I've gotten rid of you!" Leonardo with a shocked look on his face.

"You can't get rid of me you sore loser!" The male in the hoodie who has the same hoodie and clothing as the Serial Killer. "We're inseparatable, plus, I've already saved your life once, I could save it again... I could save your big sister, your family.... but you know what to do, Leonardo!"

"............." Leonardo looks at the images and feels the time outside has slowed down.

"What's the magic word, Leonardo?" The young male asks with a creepy grin on his face.

"............ Please....... save my big sister..." He begs with tears streaming down his cheeks, "Save Avril..... I'm begging you"

The male couldn't hold his laughter right then, "AHAHAHAHAHAHA!" He laughs out loud as he grabs Leonardo by his throat. "Gladly!"

A strange blue beast-like wolf with an armored horn ran across the hallway while flickering with orange electricity, he smashed the prison's bars with his horn, cracking them. An air shockwave burst into their surroundings due to the powerful impact.

"Screams accomplish nothing" The male grins at Leonardo before tossing him into the black hands' swarm which ends up covering Leonardo completely "Only KILLING does! AHAHAHAHA!"

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- Arthas raised his sword with a smirk, swinging it at Nyxx to finally do the kill.

Xander dashed towards them desperately, hoping to reach them in time before Arthas's sword kills Nyxx.

"Halt, ARTHAS!" Xander yelled.

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The earth was shaking inside his unconscious realm as dark energy was pouring out of the unknown shadow figured male.

The prisoned entity glowed in red as he got empowered somehow and has finally smashed all the bars with his sword, shouting the name, "AUTHORITY!".

"Guess I'll take the wheel, hehe!" The twisted male's voice echoes through Leonardo's head.

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Arthas's sword impacted, making a shockwave the filled the arena with dust clouds. The spectators cheered for their third Lieutenant.

*The dust cloud dispersed slowly*

Silence filled the arena. Leo was holding the sword by its edge while glaring up at Arthas with widened eyes.

Not just that, he was holding the sword's edge with his right arm, his new fully demonic right arm. Dark energy exploded from Leonardo's body while dark red energy was radiating from his new demonic right arm.

"I chopped your fucking arm, how in the HELL-" Arthas in irritation with his right eyebrow twitching.

Nyxx's eyes were widened, it was the same look, the same look on Leonardo's face when Alexandra died, the anger, the fury, the hatred and... the evil within him, they were all notable on his face.

And then, he let out a shout, "JUDGEMENT!" dark red energy exploded out of Leonardo's body upon saying the word, shaking the ground and reaching up to the sky. His right beast eye switched colors from blue to a glowing red.

"AUTHORITY!" the entity let out a battle cry as he appeared above Leonardo and swung his sword at Arthas, Arthas raised his left arm to block but the strike flung him two hundred meters away. His armor cracked due to the powerful impact and he was rolling on the ground.

Leonardo stood up slowly while lifting Nyxx in his arms, the grin grew on his face and bloodlust was notably showing. The dark red energy was exploding from his body.

His wounds were all gone, his eye was flashing and his grin was as spectacular as ever but this time it was an evil, wicked grin.

He then turned around and slowly placed her against one of the arena's walls, leaning her to it for her to rest, he turned around to leave but Nyxx grabbed his hand with her shaky palm, barely able to keep a grip.

"Don't.... go", she begged in a faint tone with tears dripping down her cheeks as she held onto his sleeve.

Leonardo turned back to her and crouched down, he smiled and swept the tears off her cheek "Stop being a crybaby and let the man of the house handle this!"

He turned around and walked towards the royal guards with a grin.

"HELLOOOOOO You sacks of SHIT!" Leonardo grins with his arms spread sideways. "Allow me to introduce myself more properly... MY NAME IS......... FUCK YOU ALL! AHAHAHA!"

His eyes laid on Arthas.

"ARTHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS?!!! How I've been wishing to dance with you since the last 30 minutes"

"Authorityyyyyyy" The large entity stares at Arthas like a predator with the same grin as Leonardo

"Shall we?" Leonardo cracks his knuckles.

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*End of Chapter 22*