This is part twelve of a twelve-part RP story I did more than a month ago with  EricStripe. It stars his main dragon character, Xiren, his main lizard character, Agua, his main rabbit character and Aerona Chronicles protagonist, Kuroi, my Keepers protagonist Storm, my deuteragonist, Jobe, and my main werewolf character, Vyk. It revolves around, as the title suggests a brief war they're going to fight with a whole army of undead bent on conquering Xiren, Agua, and Kuroi's version of Earth. The story also features Seth and the remaining five Keepers, my tritagonist, Michel, Jabu, Nalan, Arlo, and Ryth.

In this twelfth and final part, Storm, Jobe, and Seth all return to Aterea to the relieved hugs of Michel, Jabu, Nalan, Arlo, and Ryth, who also welcome Kuroi back. They are then met by the Lightmen Pain and Thrall, who offer to reunite them with Vyk, who has had his soul devoured by Agua. Both are being held in the Lightmen's base. Surprisingly, thanks to Jack, newly revived thanks to Xiren (in part eleven), Vyk's soul is freed and returned to his body, and he's allowed to return home to reunite with Nalan, while Jack stays with Agua during his long recovery.

After this, happy times abound for the Keepers thanks to a surprise gesture from Seth and Spire. But Vyk's just not feeling the happy times, so after he lets Nalan be carried off to enjoy the happy times with Seth, he gets influenced by his former best friend and current foe, Jyn, to continue on with his life and not allowing depression over Agua's condition to get to him. The evil werewolf assures his former friend that Agua will be back and will return to him and Nalan as good as new before he knows it. Suddenly feeling better, Vyk vows to go on with his life while continuing to wait for his lizard love . . . not knowing that Viktor, when the time comes, is just going to devour him and take him away from Agua, anyway. . . .

With Agua fully evolved, part of Viktor's plan is complete. This means that Xiren's evolution is his next objective, followed closely by Kuroi's. But for now, as per his agreement with Jyn, it's time to turn their focus back to the Keepers' ascensions, as it's time to begin getting the eight Aterean heroes to their second evolutions. And the sinister werewolf takes the equally sinister crocodile to meet the tools to help with at least two of the Keepers:  Tarrenger's vulpine villains, Arrow and Blaze! While they seem strong, though, Viktor doesn't find them quite strong enough to help with Xiren or Kuroi's evolution, at least not yet (although here's a SPOILER ALERT: they WILL be helping out with Xiren's evolution, at least, down the road), though he does agree that they could help Jyn with the evolutions of their (Arrow and Blaze's) rivals, Storm and Vyk. . . .

Finally, after Viktor parts ways with Jyn, the werewolf goes to fully free his future tool, Gluttony, only to find him already free. He tracks him down to Aterea's moon, and after a brief talk between the two, Jyn reaffirms his orders: hunting down and eating the Keepers one by one, and basically overpowering and destroying all of Aterea with his gluttony. Gluttony takes the order, but is subsequently ordered not to attack till well in the future. Although he's starving, the Oni agrees. This leaves Jyn content that his next few plans are well in order. . . .

Part twelve and the conclusion of my RP story with  EricStripe.