🔥 SEASON 2 — EPISODE 12
"WHEN KINGS BLEED"
SCENE 1 — THE FROZEN MOMENT
Everything is still.
Aryex.
Shadow Lord.
Their powers locked.
Darkness and equilibrium colliding in absolute silence.
Then—
A crack.
Not in space.
In memory.
SCENE 2 — RAVEN'S FLASHBACK (THE SIN)
We don't see the present.
We see Raven.
Years ago.
A burning village.
Not enemies.
Civilians.
He stands in the center — eyes empty.
Bodies around him.
His hands shaking.
He whispers to himself:
"If fear creates order… then I will become fear."
He kills not for power.
Not for hate.
For stability.
We see child Raven crying in rain, told:
"Weak worlds collapse."
Back to the massacre.
His first kill.
His first lie to himself.
Back to present—
Raven watching Aryex fight.
His voice breaks:
"Don't become what I did…"
SCENE 3 — ARYEX REMEMBERS HIS YEARS
Flash.
Aryex alone in wastelands.
Training in silence.
Failing.
Bleeding.
Standing up again.
Meditating under collapsing gravity fields.
Letting shadow energy hit him without reacting.
Learning control.
Not dominance.
Years of restraint.
Years of doubt.
Years of refusing shortcuts.
Back to present—
His hand steadies.
His power refines.
Not bigger.
Sharper.
SCENE 4 — TIME UNFREEZES
Reality snaps back.
And this time—
They move.
SCENE 5 — THE FIRST STRIKE
Shadow Lord vanishes.
Appears behind Aryex.
A blade of compressed void pierces forward—
Aryex twists — barely dodges.
The floor beneath them erases.
Not destroyed.
Erased.
Aryex counters with a pulse of equilibrium.
It doesn't explode.
It corrects.
The void destabilizes.
Shadow Lord smirks.
"Good."
They clash.
SCENE 6 — SPEED BEYOND PERCEPTION
They move faster than structure.
Punches bending gravity.
Kicks cracking dimensional layers.
Each hit warps the Infinite Castle further.
Shadow Lord lands a blow—
Aryex crashes through shifting pillars.
Blood at his mouth.
He smiles.
Not because he enjoys it.
Because this is what he trained for.
SCENE 7 — THE KING UNLEASHED
Shadow Lord finally stops holding back.
The hall becomes night.
Thousands of shadow constructs form behind him.
Not illusions.
Manifested doctrine.
"I am order!"
They charge.
Aryex closes his eyes.
Breathes.
Then—
He doesn't attack the army.
He attacks the core frequency holding them together.
One pulse.
Clean.
Precise.
Half the constructs collapse instantly.
Shadow Lord's eyes widen.
"You learned…"
SCENE 8 — THE BRUTAL EXCHANGE
Now it's physical.
No speeches.
Just impact.
Shadow Lord drives Aryex through collapsing space.
Aryex grabs him mid-air.
They crash through layers of reality.
Punch. Counter. Elbow. Kick.
Blood.
Actual blood.
Both of them.
The audience feels weight now.
Shadow Lord whispers during a chokehold:
"You cannot win without killing me."
Aryex answers through strained breath:
"I don't need to win."
Headbutt.
Both fall.
SCENE 9 — THE CASTLE DIES
The Infinite Castle begins disintegrating.
Not exploding.
Disassembling.
Brick by brick turning into light fragments.
Because its foundation— certainty — is broken.
Shadow Lord stands in the dissolving throne hall.
Breathing hard.
Bleeding.
Laughing softly.
"So this is doubt…"
SCENE 10 — FINAL EXCHANGE
They walk toward each other.
No grand power-up.
No scream.
Just two exhausted beings.
Shadow Lord charges one final absolute void strike.
Aryex gathers equilibrium into a single point.
They collide.
Everything goes white.
SCENE 11 — AFTERMATH
Silence.
Dust of light floating.
The castle gone.
Open sky.
Shadow Lord on one knee.
Power fading.
Aryex standing—but barely.
Shadow Lord looks up.
For the first time—
He looks human.
"Was I wrong?"
Aryex doesn't answer immediately.
He kneels too.
"No."
Pause.
"You were incomplete."
Shadow Lord closes his eyes.
His body dissolves into dark particles.
Not destroyed.
Released.
His final whisper:
"Then build something better…"
He fades.
FINAL SCENE — THE NEW SKY
The Axis stabilizes.
Not perfect.
Not controlled.
Alive.
Raven watches from distance.
Tears in his eyes.
Aryex stands alone.
The wind moves freely now.
No throne.
No ruler.
Just possibility.
Camera pulls back.
Far back.
We see something—
A fragment of shadow drifting into unknown space.
Not dead.
Changed.
Cut to black.