Cody was never too sure what Gerswhin looked like, when forces turned her into her monstrous forms, never quite able to perceive the forms... but he knew her light, so distinguishable to him, from all the others, often fluctuated, going brighter, stronger, or fading and causing him to worry. He never saw the world as anyone else did, and never really knew how to perceive things with his sighted abilities. Often, it was intuition. But he was, despite everything, human. Even if some percentage of his DNA wasn’t… he was still susceptible to… humanity.

But he could see the destruction around her, he could tell that a lot of damage had been done because of the twins… and Gerwshin, never able to really control herself in these monstrous forms, had done the rest. Yet Cody didn’t think any less of Gerswhin. He knew that she was a good person, and that every time this happened to her, she seemed to gain a little bit more humanity… at least, it seemed to him.

She always came to his rescue, when he needed it the most.

Thoughts of Caits distracted Cody for a few seconds, wondering where she was, and hoping she was safe. As Gerswhin sprang towards him, Cody wasn’t afraid, instead he ducked, rolling out her way, as she went flying towards the hand. He came onto his feet, looking about wildly for a moment, searching for the signatures of the twins. It shouldn’t be quite so hard, what they were would affect their light in his eyes. If they were underground… Cody knew that would be hard to perceive, but he was ready for them.

And now he knew he had no choice. He had to take them down.

Even if it destroyed him.

The form that was Gershwin quickly destroyed the earthen hand with ease with its razor claws, yet it was quickly replaced with another hand right behind Gershwin, hoping to crush the being in between. Thy's control of the earth was amazing and fast - unlike everything people have seen about giants in movies, moving all slow and sluggish. They were blindingly quick.

Clasped in between two fists, the monster sprouted huge tendrils and extended its carapace, like those of a sea urchin.

In the meanwhile, Dara's mind, whose body is hidden and protected deep beneath the earth, sought out the light being's mind, hoping to "grab" it and pull away the being's literal soul out of his body.

Slowly, in a steady trickle, Cody could feel his energy being sapped. He wasn't truly worried, as long as he had contact with light, he’d be fine. He wasn’t foolish, however, he knew that that meant one of the twins was attacking him in a vicious mental assault, and he turned his mind to that.

Light began to flow over his hand, in a thickening glove, before rolling into a ball. She’d be in the ground, her brother would make sure that she was safe. So he’d just have to go to her. He struggled against her mental assault, knowing that it was only his abilities that were keeping him from being ripped apart.

“Don’t make me do this” He whispered, before he slammed his fist into the ground, unleashing the stored up energy of the light, the power of it, into the ground. He did it again and again, tears stinging his eyes, as the pain grew steadily worse. He shook, shuddering against each impact, tears rolling down his cheeks freely after a moment.

He knew what he could do.. What he could do to put an end to this… but there were too many innocent people around… he couldn’t do it…

“Please… “

He continued his assault, knowing he would until his dying breath. Even if it was only a few seconds away.

Dara continued her assault, a mental force whose attack grated on the light being's mind like a fork on a plate, like the sharp claws of a predator on the flesh of its freshly caught prey. Though the light being's mind was very strong, it was only a matter of time before Dara found the crack in that armour and strike the finishing blow.

She read the light being's mind, and so did Thy - two minds into one who expected the light-empowered hit to the ground. It was powerful but with anticipation, it missed entirely. Dara persisted and increased her mental force, drilling into that pathetic being's mind.

However, Gershwin's mind, who no more than a few moments ago was struck with Dara's mental blast, found in her sights... Thy. Gershwin, now being more than 300 meters tall took off in flight with her powerful wings, razor-sharp limbs and uncompromising size launched towards the earth-bender.

In turn, Thy returned back all of the Terra Army into the earth, vibrations of them "moving", heading back, returning to the sorcerer. To combat a giant beast, you must have a giant beast of your own. A hand shot out from Thy's left side, punching and knocking Gershwin out of the air. A shell case formed around Thy and features of its exterior was starting to form facial features. As more earth moved out, it only confirmed what the human's imagination realized: a mega soldier, standing around the same height as Gershwin, with size just as menacing, with great power just as immense. So much soil has been shifted to create the being, the ground became uneven and unstable, lowered and weakened, as its stable foundations were uprooted. In the head of the mighty being sat Thy, controlling ultimately its servant as he stepped forward to take Gershwin out and kill her once and for all.

Gershwin had only just gotten back up from her insect form when another hit met her hinged jaws, her body smashing into the ground so hard, it felt like another earthquake was occurring, opening up pockets of exposed dirt and soil, drainage pipes, walls of tunnels, and electric wiring of a modern time that feels so long ago, contrasting so heavily with this chaos. From deep within the depths, from within the light brown dirt, there revealed to the surface a a spherical shell compromised entirely of hot, bright red, molten magma. Thy was too occupied, fighting the beast, leaving his sister all but exposed. Dara knew this and started attack the light being even more with a powerful mental blast, unrelenting in force.

A telepathic message was sent to Cody, a little girl's voice whose tongue was unpracticed in the intricacies of English, as if she had suddenly learnt a native speaker's worth of experience of the language in a day - or in this case, a few moments.

"You will die."

“If my death would solve things, then I’d gladly lay down my life. I don’t want to kill you… but i will if you don’t stop…

Please…. Don’t do this” Cody said, trying once more, but knowing it was a futile effort. Neither the girl nor the boy seemed capable of understand the kindness he wanted to offer, and he had to wonder at the way even indifference seemed to be cruelty, let alone kindness, had affected their life up until now. There was no much more he could do, he could see that. Both boy and girl seemed intent on this destruction.

As her mental force increased, Cody knew he had no option, even as he still searched for another option, another way. There had to be another way… but there wasn’t. The girl was exposed, the boy wasn’t, intent on taking Gerswhin out as he was. Cody wouldn’t have a better chance. Nor did he have much time left to do what he needed to, her mental attack was almost crushing.

He didn’t know what would happen to him, if she won. Would he die? Could he even die, anymore? He didn’t think he wished to find out. His sightless, yet all seeing eyes turned towards the girl, an emotion too deep to read upon his features.

“I’m sorry” He said once more, a finality to his words that seemed to deny everything he was thinking, and feeling. He began to move, knowing it was now or never. Light whips began to shoot out, seeking the girl, even as he began to erect a cage, ready to unleash it, that would trap the girl, even should he die. It would mean a slow starvation for her, Cody knew… but it was a bargaining chip he was ready to use.

He wouldn’t kill outright if he didn’t have to.

Dara was shocked. How? How did the light being hold out for so long? Nothing had been able to withstand her mental blast for so long. Even if the light being's power made him recover fast enough to keep up with the strenuous damage being put to his brain, there was still the pain that's put on the mind - this element is intangible and only someone with the greatest of will and fortitude can hold out against what felt like a nuclear bomb in their mind.

Meanwhile, Thy fought the monstrosity, giant against giant. Each blow sending a megaton of hurt, shock-waves that would send billowing plumes of dust across the horizon. Each giant would have pieces of themselves - rock or carapace and flesh - flying off as they got hit, but their recovery was almost instantaneous, the fight seemingly negligible. A sucker punch landed on Gershwin's face, and her world was spun around. The pain was extreme and blinding, flashes of red and green obscuring her hexagonal vision, but her sight recovered almost immediately. Her sight came to the very bright sphere of lava surrounding by bars of light.

Dara.

All efforts were now turned to killing her, the easier target. Thy knew this and grabbed whatever limb he could to hold her back. Gershwin sprouted more limbs to try and reach for Dara, but Terra Soldiers grew from the Terra Giant and crawled out to cut them off, like ants on a predator much greater than them. Soon Thy would spread his arms over and around him, like a vice that will absolutely not break if there was no leg room for Gershwin to move.

It was now or never. Gershwin pulled even harder and ripping sounds could be heard. Gershwin flew free from Thy's vice, now nothing but a torso. As she fell forward, Thy felling backwards, she readied herself. Tendrils, spikes, thorns, the sorts, all aimed to pierce the ever-living shit out of Dara.

Though her pain was not felt, everyone heard Thy's. An almost musical tone of pure misery, pain, and sadness. Crumbling and breaking, Thy's giant sunk back to the earth and the poor little Cambodian boy was there in the middle of a flat dirt field, crying his lungs out. All at once, it seemed as if the war was over.

What once was Dara was killed and the molten lava sphere crushed in on her and incinerated what remained of her. Dara felt a new essence of power so strong entering him. It's as if... all his family's powers were now all in one naughty, naive, innocent little kid. Despite all that, all he could feel now was sadness.

“NO!” Cody bellowed, but it was too late. He saw the girls light fading, dying as she left this earth, and Cody fell to the ground, uttering devastated. He had wanted, wanted so hard, to try and save them all, to make everything right without more killing. To change everything, and yet, he couldn’t. He bowed his head, tears falling out his cloudy, sightless eyes, staining the ravaged ground, as if his tears could put everything to rights. He was a failure, and the cause of a little girl’s death. Were they any better than those that had stolen them, trapped them, sought to use them? Cody wasn’t able to see the difference right then.

He sobbed.

It seemed like forever, although maybe it was a few seconds, a few moments, before he gathered himself, and rose, his movements slow and a little sluggish. Was Caits even still alive, or had she died as well? He turned his sights towards the boy, the brightly glowing boy who seemed so alone, so… broken.

They were all broken, it seemed.

His movements careful, and slow, he stepped towards the boy, studying him. He would make sure that this boy didn’t die, at least not yet. Cody imagined being him, alone, and powerful. He crouched by the boy, knowing it was dangerous, but not caring, not anymore. As far as Cody knew, he was effectively immortal. He’d come back from being incinerated. What would kill him? Maybe he should find out.

“Please… stop this” He whispered softly, his throat raw, trying to meet the boys gaze, even if he couldn’t see his eyes. “I don’t want to hurt you” Did the boy even understand him? Cody was doubtful, the girl hadn’t been able to, and the boy hadn’t shown any ability to being able to understand him either.

Without warning, he reached out and lay a hand on the boys heart, warmth radiating from his palm, although Cody seemed unaware of it.

“I’m sorry”

Thy's powers grew immensely in a few seconds. Each of his family member's abilities meshed and combined together into new abilities, but the knowledge of their nature flew into his brain so fast it was too much to take in. So much power but at that point he had already given up. Looming over in the distance, the insect monster was still rampant in its path, destroying everything it could. The Being of Light standing in front of Thy spoke a language that the boy now understood. The guilt, the despair, the overwhelming pain that he felt, it was too much. It wasn't that he did not want to fight the being of light because he thought Thy could not win; but because it just hurt to win or lose and still be alone, without his family.

Summoning his might, Thy performed his curtain call. He shot out a giant pillar that pierced the giant insect monster's body, and out from the opening shot hot blasting fumes of underground toxic earthly gasses, in a way to stay the beast. But in turn, it will most likely mean that the environment for Cambodia and everyone on it will be destroyed. In the case for the South Asian country, recovery may take virtually forever.

"Get everyone out. Don't breathe."

Gershwin started to lose control and her massive, unstoppable body was fainting. The atmosphere filled with air so toxic, it turned the air a putrid greenish black, and it spread so quickly no one could figure out how to escape faster. How do you outrun air?

Thy closed his eyes as the air entered his respiratory system and all faculties shut down from shock and rejection. Gershwin, in her human form, fell to the ground. Cambodia would soon meet this fate.

“I’m sorry… “ Cody said softly, his voice shaking, breaking with emotion. He knew that this was the end, whether he won or lost, this was the end. There simply was no changing what was. He could grieve for the two children he hadn’t been able to save, while knowing he had to stop what The boy would become. He lowered his head, asking for forgiveness from a god he didn’t believe in. Yet as the boy seemed to gather himself for something immense, Cody hesitated, and the words spoken chilled him.

“NO!” He shouted, but he already knew that it was too late. He couldn’t do anything. He had failed. He turned, searching for his friends, right then, knowing he couldn’t do anything to save the people. They had to save themselves… he wasn’t powerful enough to protect them. "Gershwin!" He shouted, seeing her falling... could he do anything for her? The air seemed to work fast, whatever it was the boy had done. He breathed in, knowing his body was repairing itself even as its cells were damaged, also knowing that he wouldn’t be able to survive long if this kept up. For now, he had to trust that Gerswin would could get herself out. That she’d be okay.

He began to run, searching for where he’d left Caits, running as fast as he could go, knowing that she didn’t have a chance in hell of being able to survive, and that he needed to get her out of there. “Caits!” he shouted, his voice breaking with thick emotions, “We got to move, come on, get up!” he shouted at her, helping her up, pushing her alone, “Run damn it Caits, Run!”

He pushed her until she began to run, even as she shouted, “I can’t!” he kept on pushing her until she ran, and kept on running, making sure she didn’t stop, “Keep going!” he tried his best to protect her from the worst of it, not even knowing what he was doing, but just desperately wanting to make sure she would be okay.

"Come on Gerswhin.... " he whispered, desperate to want to his friend to survive.