I have to admit, I've never actually taken down a legion with the exceptions of brain-eating zombies. Alone. But these were demons that I had to deal with. Even those that lurk in the shadows. I could sense their hunger and thirst for blood.
Is this really part of this 'final battle' or whatever that everyone was expecting? Maybe so. If this was the climax of an action movie, I would have had someone pass me the popcorn by now. With butter, please. Maybe a sip of a soda [ preferably Coke ] will do as well? But no. This was real.
I've been experiencing abnormality for a few years already. But this, this adventure with...these band of rag-tag 'heroes[?]' like Archer said was a little more than enough for people like me to handle. Even so, the deaths of millions of people, shouldn't be happening. It's natural for me to think like that; all this shouldn't be happening.
Within moments, I was surrounded by starving, drooling demons. I know that there were others fighting the rest off, but this was too much for me. I don't want to fight my myself. Where is everyone when I needed them? Zack? Kuroi? Are you there!? HELP! ME! my mind screamed. Could I take this? Alone? By myself?
In split-seconds, I snapped. It felt like it cracked and stung inside my head; worse than a rubber band and a finger flick to the head... More like a strong whip that struck to the interior of what's left of my cranium.
Pain. Agony. Loneliness.
"Ah...AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!"
An entire lash of that emerged through a strong glow of red light from the wing-shaped charm on my belt. And that, became the one weapon that I use. A staff. A small blade emeged from it as I charged through the seemingly endless sea of demons.
I lost track of everything that had happened.
Sorry.
But judging from the all the blood stained on the cold hard floor and on my hands and my clothes, I think I won.
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"In order to save this biological masterpiece of a giant pink tree, you must listen to the song of your beating hearts!" [ Sai ]
"Okay everyone! Let's do what he says!" [ Cross ]
"EEK! I'm helpless in combat with only a bright yellow chainsaw to fight with! We'll show that woman what hell really is! A place with shitty food!" [ Adette, who randomly does a backfip and dismembers herself, dying a horrible death ]
"I'm only doing this because I'm so helpless and weak!" [ Jason...who does...nothing ]
"Yes! Sing to the songs of your hearts! I shall now have you commence the finishing blow!" [ Sai ]
"Rose... wand... floating... superior... crystal... eternal... beautiful... flower... genocide!" [ Just about EVERYONE. ]
"Mhmhmhm...AHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAA!! You may have won this little fight, but little do you understand! The battle between the dark and the light shall never end! Don't forget that!" [ Aerona ]
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That voice. That violent scream. My ears. They hurt. It hurts. Everything inside my head...
Aerona. The dark violet shadow of that woman was...gone.
"True, but without the power we have on our side, you'll never win!" cried the voice of Ed. ...Sterotypical hero much, everyone? I couldn't stand hearing something like that. It's utter bullshit spewing out. It's giving me a headache. The "We did it! It's finally over!" from Satou, probably made it a little better.
Anyways...
I was too late to see the ending.
At least everything was saved...right? It's over...right?
Maybe those bad dreams are going to be over as well. I know that people say that there is symbolic interpretation is there about our lives and our futures. But it's all some crazy nonsense that shouldn't exist. In fact, Aerona shouldn't have existed as well. And that good vs evil thing. Then I wouldn't have to go through this.
But...
I wouldn't have met all my friends if it weren't for something stupid like that, right?
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So it was now over. Aerona was gone and the worlds were at peace once again. The tree began to glow brightly and petals began to encircle those who fought against Aerona. They were all going home now.
Again it was truly...
THE END~
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Wait. What? No. It's not over. Of course Aerona was dead and gone and everyone went back to their respective worlds, but this is not how it really went. Yet.
Damn the sweet and happy stories of BS'd endings. In real life, it almost never happens. Ever.
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In a quick flash of light, everyone was gone. To who knows where. Except for maybe a few people. Me. Cross. Just the two of us.
What? What's going on? How? How did this happen? Why? Why is everyone else gone except for us? Isn't this over already? As always, I sense something suspicious... That coming from the boys's usual happy smile and light grip onto his sword. What does he want?
My head hurts.
I want to go home.
I'm very tired.
"Sarah...do you know why we're here?" Cross finally asked. Something about him looked calm, almost like he was plotting something. Hiding a secret. Or whatever. It just felt like he was.
"...No. Why?"
"You don't know, Sarah? Or must you have forgotten already?"
Ah. I get it. A perfect world where everyone could be happy. What of it? Or maybe there's something more to it that I didn't understand yet.
"As if I would forget."
His smile fell and his eyes narrowed. "That's what I meant. A world where everyone can live happily. With love and peace everywhere... Sarah. You're the only one in the way of my goal now..."
"Huh!? Wait--!" He lunged forward, preparing to slash his pitch black blade at me. I parry it with my staff's. Each time he would stab, I would block it off, over and over. I needed to find an opening. Quick.
"You ruined everything. I can't have this." As our swords clashed, he looked away, smiling still. "Satou!" he called out.
Then she appeared, a switchblade in hand. "Serali-san...! Looks so much like Masume-san! My sister...! Red hair..." she cried, tears streaming from her eyes preparing to stab me from behind. "Blue eyes... Why do you look so much like her!? You...you must have taken her away from me! Give her back...!"
I've never known that 'Masume' person in my life...
Before she could make the impact, I stopped the blade with my free hand. It bled as I managed to snap her knife in two. I couldn't say anything. But Satou fell to her knees, mentally broken down to bits. As if I could do something about that...
"...I never thought that you were this weak... I am the bone of my sword... Caldabolg." "Ah...!" Woosh. Shot in the leg, I was now bleeding profusely, what seemed to be a spiral sword sticking out from it. And just then, both of my legs were frozen in ice. "...A fool..."
...Why do they sound familiar...?
I couldn't move. My arms were still free to block the sword from reaching me. Then lashed out...
"So."
A flaming chain.
"Pitiful."
Arrows.
"Sarah."
Razors of wind.
"I thought you would..."
Throwing stars.
"Believe in me..."
A bullet from a sniper rifle. Taking a look around...I found that there were more of these familiar faces. So many of them.
I fell.
The clashing stopped. And all the other attacks ceased to a close. Their voices and their forms vanished into the darkness.
The pain stopped. I was 'okay' now.
"Accept my goals and what will be my world." The boy known as Cross knelt down to me, his hand gently patting my head. "Then I wouldn't have to get more of your 'friends' to do this to you again..."
This shouldn't be happening. To me.
This isn't real. Some of those people would never do those things to me. They wouldn't try to kill me like this...right?
Slowly?
Painfully?
Someone...help...me...!
But if all this was happening...why am I still alive?
I think I figured it out.
"The world you've always been dreaming of..." My hand gripped onto the staff...
"Is a lie. I'm sorry. All this is a fake. You must have done this...started all this all this time...! You and your shitty beliefs! They'll never happen! You know that!"
". . . !"
I stabbed him right in the stomach. His face, the way that he was expressing himself was stunning. I can tell, that he was in a state of shock right at that moment.
"It's over. Learn how to grow up in the real world...okay?"
Blood was coughed out from his mouth. The red liquid spilled onto the right side of my face. "...This reason why...I summoned...Aerona..." Cross breathed, "Was because...she promised...to send the message...of what would happen..."
Pause.
"...If there wasn't a perfect world..."
A longer pause.
"...To begin with...!"
And so he fell to the cold hard floor, dying. Dragging myself up to my knees, I held him up and gently set him down to the floor, more of his fresh blood spilling onto me. Soon enough, I felt a hard, mind-wrenching pang of guilt.
A strong white light then started to engulf all around me.
I guess it was over after all.
But this feeling of killing the one who started all of the major events in this time and the one who spreaded his twisted message...
I started to let it all go...
And started to break down, weeping...
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