The ancients, powerful beings out of the outer space. Many moons ago they were locked up together inside a prison: the Mad Moon. But, their desire to destroy each other finally split them and their prison apart, sending them crashing right onto the world full of life. There they started to influence everyone and everything around them. It didn't take long for their rivalry to rise again and so the battles for the shrines began, leaving a trail of death and destruction behind them.

Such battles always attract a lot of attention, sometimes unnecessary. Over the time many would join the fray, even the forces of nature like: fundamentals or elementals. One of the watchers was a great-great infant of the keeper of the light, the first of all fundamentals, Phoenix. He has seen multiple fights and clashes for the shrines and the suffering that came with it. It was too painful to bear and so the Phoenix took terrestrial form, eagerly traveling to shine its warmth upon those who may need it most, and perhaps seize upon its solar destiny.

"Such a beautiful story and soon it will be gone," said bitterly Phoenix as he stared at his opponents: Enigma, Chaos Knight, Silencer, Ancient Apparition and Pit Lord.

Enigma the Fundamental, one whose true history is long lost to the eons and who can shatter entire planets if he desires. Chaos Knight the Fundamental of Chaos, a seasoned veteran of many battles, whose might only few can withstand. Silencer a mage that lives up to his name, despised by all the casters. Ancient Apparition, who calls himself the Ice Elemental - quite logically, being a creation of eternal cold and ice. But then again, he is actually the elemental of the universe's Heat Death, and grows stronger as it approached. And last, but not least Pit Lord. A horrible demon, that can teleport entire army almost everywhere and wreck havoc upon his foes and a nemesis of Legion Commander. All of them were alive and barely wounded, while his allies were dead, after the coordinated attack of the enemy team. If he was any closer, he would be dead too, but it did not matter at this point. All the towers and barracks were gone, leaving the radiant shrine in the middle of the base wide open.

He knew he had no chance to win, even though he tried so hard. He killed enemy heroes nine times and did not die even once, while at the same time he was seven-slotted and made as much space for his team as he possibly could. Still it was for nothing. He was alone, all by himself against five angry heroes. He was going to lose no matter what he did, but if he had to die protecting the shrine, he would do it the same way he was born, as the sun!

With the little mana and health he had, he was able to activate both Shiva's guard and fire spirits. Fire spirits were conscious birds of fire, created, by his own core, which would attack his foes. Shiva's guard on the other hand was a piece of armor that granted bearer a freezing aura, while allowing the user to activate Arctic blast every thirty seconds. Phoenix sent the spirits flying towards enemy heroes, before he activated Shiva's guard and his ultimate, Supernova. Changing himself into a scorching sun, he waited for the inevitable to happen. As he expected all the spirits were casually dispelled, by the magic immunity, while his foes charged in. To his surprise it was Enigma, who blinked in first and started to channel his black hole right on top of phoenix. It was unexpected to say the least, as no magic could work on his sun. However, what happened after, was even more shocking. The black hole was actually sucking the sun in! He could not believe it, even now at the brink of death.

Awaiting his end, Phoenix said sadly: ”Goodbye, Grandpa.” Before the darkness covered everything.

Author's Note

Well, this is my second story I decided to write. It is not perfect, but I like it.

Oh and this one is probably going to be slightly better, I think, mostly because it is just one hero to write about, not 2.

Hopefully, I will be able to release chapters more often.