"Enough riddles! What are you saying?" I heard myself ask. "You are the last.....to die!" Melchaih said as he came walking at me. Seeing his slow pace, I lured him to a spiked gate and trapped him in them by impaling him with the spiked gate. He broke out of the gate and continued to chase me. Seeing another spiked gate, I lured him there and did the same thing. Melchaih broke the gate again and then I heard a click. The moving of a turning switch no doubt. I again lured Melchaih to the bloody grinding circle. As he phased though, I jumped out of the gate and ran to his throne
area. "Tell me Melchiah, where can I find Kain?" I asked him after I turned the switch to bring down the grinder above him. Seeing as how he was so badly injured from the gates, he didn't have time to phase through to safety. The only thing he could do as answer my question. "The Master is beyond your reach, Raziel. He makes himself know when we sees fit, not when commanded!" Melchiah finished the sentence just before the grinder began to crush him. He gave out a cry of pain and suffering as the grinder slammed down on him spilling blood outside of his prison. The last words he said was "I'm released".Looking at the grinder dripping with blood, I saw his soul forming before me. It was very pink and it came to me and I took it. The force of Melchiah's soul going into me had brought me to my knees. His soul
gave me the power to phase through gates. After that, the flashback of my brother Melchiah ended and I stopped my walk to Kain. But, the next flashback wasn't another of my brothers. This time, it was Kain:

"Your life span is but a flicker, compared to the doubt and regret that  I have born since Mortanius first turned me from the light!" Is what Kain told me. And he was right. But, the fact that he committed genocide on my clan was enough to make me stand up to Kain when the others would not. I broke out of my thought to hear Kain say "This place has outlasted it's usefulness. As have you!". Kain drew the Soul Reaver and teleported to different parts of the Throne Room trying to blast me. I managed to cut him three times before he finally had enough of me and finally brought me to the ground with the Soul Reaver. I looked up to see that he was going to strike me with the Soul Reaver! I held my head and awaited the worst as he slammed the sword on me. The sword broke and a huge amount of energy exploded out of it."The blade is vanquished. So it unfolds, and we are a step closer to our destinys". I heard Kain say those words and shifted to the Spectral Realm as I heard him laugh. I got up to see the Soul Reaver in its Spectral form. "I
didn't know what game Kain was playing. But I knew it was a finishing move". I grabbed the Soul Reaver and it manifest itself into me and grew into a sword on my arm. The flashback ended just before I saw Ariel. I continued my
walk to Kain and got hit with another flashback. This flashback was of Zephon:

"Will! Instinct! The insect mind knows little difference. I warn you brother. As my body has grown, so it is matched by my appetite. Step forward, morsel!" Zephon was always one to boast, but not one to back it up. I saw myself as I cut off his legs and each time I did, he would produce an egg from his abdomen. I took these eggs and lit them on fire from a poor human who was holding a torch only to be caught in Zephon's trap. As I threw the giant eggs and him he started to burn. I finally threw the third and last egg at him and he was set ablaze. Zephon tried to shake the fire off him. But, with little room to move, he could not. Zephon yelled as he fell to the ground, burned to death. The fires stopped after he fell and his soul came out of him. But, unlike Melchiah's soul, which formed in front of me, Zephon's soul, which was a bright orange, came out of four different places of his body and each one came at me, hitting me all at the same time. The force, like Melchiah, brought me to my knees. Listening to the Elder, Zephon's soul made me able to climb walls. The flashback disappeared as I saw myself leaving Zephon's lair. With the flashback gone, I made it to the door that lead to the gate way. I opened it at walked to the gate way. That's when the next flashback came to me. It was Rahab:

"Does it matter? We were lost. He saved us" Is what Rahab said as I enter the flashback. "Saved us!? From what?" I saw myself ask. "From ourselves,"Rahab responded. I remembered the Elder telling me that Rahab was weak against sunlight. Looking at all the circular windows, I aimed the Soul Reaver at one of the windows and fired to let the sunlight poor in. Thanks to one of Turel's children, that I met in the sewers, I obtained the ability to use the Soul Reaver to fire projectiles of energy. I fired at two more windows and made more light shine in. Rahab knew what I was doing and tried to stop me. He dove underwater and came up next to me and swipe me with his webbed claw. I jumped to the next pillar, just inches before Rahab pushed me over into the water. I jumped three more pillars and aimed the Soul Reaver at three more windows. Just two more to go. Rahab spit out a blue-substance at me but, I dodged it. Jumping onto a few more pillars, I was able to shoot out the last two windows. With all the windows broken, the sunlight gathered inside and activated the sun beam above Rahab. He was showered with sunlight. He tried to cover himself from it's deadly rays but, to no avail. Rahab fell back and sank into the waters. What a tragedy to be fried by the
sun. The one thing that we were all protected against. Such a shame, Rahab gave up his protection of the sun to swim the waters of Nosgoth. As I saw him sink to the bottom his soul came out of the waters. Seeing as how Rahab was aquatic, it didn't surprise me to see his soul blue. It came at me as it did with Melchaih and Zephon and it too, brought me to my knees. The Elder told me I now could swim in waters that once could burn me. The flashback ended as I saw myself jump into the waters and left Rahab's lair. I opened the gate door and walk down to the door where Kain was. The door had a face on it and it's eyes were closed. I stared at this door for awhile. Before I could open it, the last flashback came to me. This one was of Dumah:

"Not even Kain is my equal!" I heard Dumah say as I enter the flashback.  "Even the strongest vampire is vulnerable!" I said as I looked at Dumah's incredible height. To think he was still evolving when the vampire hunters attacked him. To wonder what he could have turned into is still a mystery. I broke from thought to hear me say, "I will consume your soul before this days done!". I let Dumah chase me throughout his territory. Little did he know I was leading him to his death. I finally lead him to the Furnace Room. I had timed this right. I ran up the left slope and turned the wheel for the
gas. I then ran to the other slope and pulled the switch to activate the fire. Dumah was burned beyond belief. Collapsing from the flames, Dumah's soul escaped his body. It appeared just as Zephon's soul did, it came out four smaller souls and merged into one. I opened my arms to take the soul flying at me. By now, I expected what would happen. Dumah's soul too, brought me to my knees as did the rest. I now had the ability to make a constricting band of energy around objects and enemies, as told to me by the Elder. The flashback ended as I left Dumah's fortress on my way to Kain.

I thought about the flashbacks I just had. Aside from Dumah, maybe it was a mistake to kill Melchiah, Zephon, and Rahab. They didn't give the order to cast me in, they didn't cast me into the abyss, and they didn't rip the wings off my back. I wasn't surprised that they didn't stop Kain from casting me in. Once Kain had something on his mind, it would be suicide to try and stop him. As I began to question my actions on killing my three younger brothers, I also began to realize there deaths at my hand weren't in vain. Without Melchaih's soul, I could not have gotten to Kain and obtain
the Soul Reaver. Without Zephon, I could not have not have gotten to Rahab's territory. And without Rahab, I could not have swam the deadly waters of the Abyss to Dumah's Territory. And although I hated him for casting me into the
abyss, without Dumah's soul, I couldn't have moved the sundial to open the doorway to where Kain was. So there deaths were not in vain. Their deaths were not without purpose. Seeing as how my younger brothers deaths were put
to good use, how their deaths in fact aided me to get to where I am I opened the huge door and stepped inside. It was now time to face the Master.
 

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