Fan Fiction ❯ The Goddess Sagas ❯ Anguish and Power ( Chapter 38 )
Chapter 38: Anguish and Power
"So, you are going to take both transformation crystals? Don't you know that will probably end up killing you?" Taromeicka asked, holding the two blood red crystals in his hands.
"When Tommy died, I was prepared to meet my end as well." Rose answered, eyes down cast. "But I lived on, if you can really call living without the one you love with you, living."
"I understand, have your revenge if that is what you wish."
Rose screamed out in pain as Taromecika shoved his hand threw her chest placing both of the transformation crystals within her body before she passed out, when she woke she was determent to have Ryan's blood on her hands.
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The group had stopped for the night to rest, they were just outside of Angeles Genki had told them, that tomorrow they should reach the town, but all what the others could see was a snow dessert, and caves, one of the caves is where they slept. Ryan gazed outside, blinking confused, the area appeared so familiar, like he had been here before.
He shook his head and gazed at his friends whom were sleeping, some with relaxed looks on there faces, some with tired, some with worried and some with pained.
Mimi was tired, breathing lightly, an little worried about what they will be facing tomorrow but was pretty calm as she slept soundly. Lima was relaxed, snoring softly arms stretched out as she smiled at something in her dream, Alex was as expressionless in his sleep as he was when he was awake, Carrie and Colt slept cuddled together, Colt was in his wolf form as to give Carrie the warmth of his fur as she slept. Both had the look of young sweet lovers, but also the troubled looks of those who could loose there lives in a battle at any moment. Mara, like Lima was calm and relaxed curdled up contentedly. When he turned to look at Genki and Squall though an pained look came to his face, even in their sleep you could see their dread. Squall had Pan close to him, however an lonely and empty look was plastered on his face, it was easy to tell what was troubling him, Lemon. There was no sight of the young girlish boy anywhere, and without his cheerful little smile to brighten Squall's life the man beast found himself empty and alone inside. The other one whom was hard to look at was Genki. The boy tried to hide his worries from the others when awake but as he slept an expression of pure fear and worry blanketed his features. It was no wonder why. Would he find his family dead or alive when he got there? What would of happened to his home? Will all his freinds be alright or will someone or someones die? They were all worried about the last part, over the time traveling they all had grown close and was as though they were one huge family. And no matter what it always hurt, even if it was just a little when a family member died.
Ryan sighed again looking back outside, a frown forming on his face. Why was it this place looked so familiar?
FLASH
Ryan looked around himself confused, he was still in the cave but it seemed different...all his friends were gone, and he was standing hear alone. But it was different then just standing in a cave, he felt as though he wasn't really there, he couldn't feel the cold, he couldn't feel the rocky ground beneath his feet, nothing. Then suddenly like ghosts appeared two forms, a little boy hold an baby. He gazed at the child baffled, he had spiky red hair, green eyes and brown skin yet held an human expression to his face much like the little girl whom he held protectively in his arms. Two demon-halves?
They were shivering from the cold, and crying softly.
"Hey..." He began approaching them, but as he went to place an hand on the boys shoulder it passed right threw him. Ryan stepped back startled, eyes growing wide.
"What...?"
An figure suddenly appeared in the mouth of the cave and Ryan gasped startled as he recognized the figure to be Miss.Lena. She stared at the children an sorrowful looking crossing over he features.
"You poor children..." She whispered, kneeling down over them. " Don't worry I wont hurt you, my name is Miss.Lena, what are yours?"
The boy opened his mouth...
FLASH
Ryan gasped as the vision ended abruptly and he was back in the cave with his friend, he shook his head, baffled. Was he going crazy or what? He leaned back against the wall, trying to sleep, but then like a sirens call and voice from out in the snowy dessert began to sing. It was an beautiful voice and he strained his ears trying to make out what the words to the song was.
"Emotionless tears is what you cry,
No feelings can be seen within your eyes,
It seems you don't even care what your crying for,
But I know that these tears make your heart sore"
He gasped. That song....it was the song which...mother wrote. I know mother wrote that song, Parfait would always wake up crying from nightmares, and she would ask me to sing that song saying it was `mommy's song about daddy.' and that it reminded her of our mother and it would calm her. Why can't I remember that...? But...I need to see whose singing.
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He ran outside into the snow, an wind storm had picked up and it was hard to see where he was going but something, or someone was just luring him nearer and near towards the voice.
He stopped standing on an hill side where he saw a woman dressed in a ragged cloak with two children with her. The baby and the little boy from the cave. She had beautiful blonde hair and blue eyes, and smiled at the little boy sweetly as he spoke to her.
"Hey mom, are we soon to Angeles, huh?" he asked excitedly.
"Yes. Very soon dear, we have good friends there whom will take care of us. Since your father disappeared so long ago...." She frowned, before smiling again. " But don't worry, we will soon have a nice warm place to go, Karen is staying in Angeles right now, she'll probably yell quite a bit at me, but she will make sure we are warm and feed."
"Yeah! I can't wait to get out of this cold!" The boy giggled, running down the hill happily, the woman smiled down at him, but suddenly froze, twisting around, an frightened look coming to her face, quickly she twisted around shielding the baby with her body as she pushed the boy out of the way of something, sending him crashing down on the snow.
Ryan watched in horror as the woman fell to the ground, blood flowing underneath her, her eyes becoming more distant and weaker by the moment. She handed the infant to the little boy who was screaming and crying, shaking and trembling all over.
"Take care of your sister....Go to Angeles, find your aunt...tell her...tell her to ....eh..." she coughed, sputtering up blood. " Tell her not to let you get involved with....the goddesses...but...if by some misfortune of faith you do then....take this." seeing his tears she reached up weakly brushing them away from his face, managing an sad smile as she took her had away and reached with an shaking arm beneath her cloak, pulling out an sword, much to big for the boy to handle.
"It was your father's sword...it will...protect you...but don't let...don't let the darkness in the sword control you..."
"Mommy...please don't die...." The boy sobbed, eyes shimmering with tears.
"I love you, both of you, remember that always...."
The woman went limp and the boy sobbed louder, shaking the woman desperately, burying his head in her cloak.
"HEY, GET AWAY FROM HEAR!!" An voice shouted.
The little boy looked up at figure, face and body blocked form recognized by the blowing snow. The figure rode an horse, and still had a gun aimed in his hands.
"I DON'T WANT TO KILL YOU, BUT I CAN'T HELP WHAT I DO!! PLEASE, LEAVE BEFORE I KILL YOU TO!!"
With an sob the boy ran away, with the baby, carrying the sword behind him. Ryan gazed at the figure on horse back, it got down from the horse after the children had left and approached the body. The figure had became an black shadow, not allowing him to see anything but it's outline. Whoever it was knelt down picking up the woman, whom was covered with blood, face pale, blonde hair now streaked with crimson red. The shadow stood staring down at the girl, he could see the shadow shaking. Suddenly threw an opening that seemed to appear out of the sky, another shadow wearing an short dress, and braided hair ran towards them.
"NO!! HOW COULD YOU!?" The braided girl shouted.
".................Go away!" the other shadow, slapped the girl to the ground before disappearing.
"YOU BASTARD!!! I WONT EVER FORGIVE YOU!!!" The girl shouted at the sky, clenching her fists, hatefully.
FLASH!!
Ryan blinked confused as hell, he was standing out in the snow alone, all the people he saw in the visions were gone.
"What the.....I saw this all before, but where....?" It suddenly snapped into his mind with a tremendous force. "The dream..."
FLASH!!
A young beautiful yet ragged looking woman was traveling threw a dessert of snow, in her arms she held a young baby hiding it from the snow with a small dirty looking blanket. Next to the woman walked a little red headed boy who appeared to be a demon or maybe a demon-half who paused to talk to the woman. However the image was blurry and it was hard to make out the figures. Like every time the boys mouth would open but the words he spoken were forever mute to Ryan's ears.
FLASH
Like last time and every time before, a flash of white light filled his vision and the image changed slightly, the woman was looking over her shoulder in terror at something behind her.
FLASH
The young boy was on the ground, laying there looking as if he had fallen, his eyes were wide and filled with horror.
FLASH
This was the final image in the dream. The woman was laying on the snow, her breathing hard, sweat gushing from every pour, a trickle of blood came from her mouth, her voice still mute. The read headed boy stood crying holding the infant as the woman lifted up her hand and wiped some tears away from his eyes and then she reached to her side for a sword and...and...!
FLASH!!
Ryan screamed, clutching his head as an horrible ache began to rip and tear at his mind. He fell on his knees from the pain before collapsing into an faint.
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Mara's eye brow twitched in her sleep as her sweet dreams suddenly disappeared and was replaced by the horrific image of that day...at the dance.
Dream
People were dancing and having fun, including an younger Mara whom was trying to persuade an boy with spiky red hair and green eyes to dance with her. He was blushed, but agreed to do so anyway. She giggled, she was having so much fun she didn't notice a boy with black hair and pale blue eyes watching them hurt. Keith. His face turned sour and he clenched his fist thightly, looking away. A little girl, hardly even able to walk came running up to the boy and girl, she looked alot like the boy, and was a demon-half just like him.
"I want to dance to!" She exclaimed, and Mara and the little boy invited her to dance with them.
The dance was far from ending but the boy was tired and was setting down to give his feet a rest when Keith approached him.
"Hey you want to play a game?"
"What kind of game?"
"Oh just a little training game, nothing to be scared of." The other commented slyly.
"How do we play this game?"
"We go to the training center of course. You know on the night of the dance they have only the strongest monsters out for the 5th rank students to battle."
"But Keith, wont that be dangerous?"
"Ha,ha,ha,ha!!" The boy laughed. " Mara don't like weaklings! If you don't want her to be your friend anymore, then wuss out!"
"No..I want Mara to be my friend I'll come...."
Mara and the little girl was worried as they searched for the little boy, when they walked out of the dance room and into the main hall they spotted an loud commotion and ran over towards it, both crying out in terror and anguish when they broke threw the crowd to see what happened.
The little red headed boy was laying tore up and slashed...he was very much dead. Keith was standing, shivering slightly, without much of a wound. Mara turned towards him with an growl, sending an slap across his face.
"KEITH, HOW COULD YOU!? I TOLD YOU NOT TO FORCE HIM INTO THE TRAINING CENTER, I KNOW YOU DIDN'T LIKE HIM BUT I DIDN'T THINK YOU WOULD GO AS FAR AS KILLING HIM!!
"But Mara..." Keith began to protest.
"I HATE YOU!!!"
She turned away from Keith to look up at Miss.Lena as she approached the boys tears in her eyes, scooping him up in her arms.
"Miss.Lena....is he...well he be ok...?" Mara quietly asked, tears running down his face, the little girl beside her was sobbing uncontrollable.
"Don't let my brother die!!"
"Don't worry, he'll be fine." She lied. " I'm just going to go heal him up, all right. It may take awhile but he will be back."
"Really!?" Mara and the little girl exclaimed.
Miss.Lena smiled weakly. " Really."
"Mara...I..." Keith approached her, but all what the cat girl did was turn away from him with the little girl, never looking back at him.
End Dream
Mara gasped, awakening, before cuddling herself into a ball and sobbing quietly to herself. Afraid that she may have awakened someone she looked around herself, instantly realizing Ryan was missing.
"Rya..." She whispered, closeing her eyes, straining her ears to see if she could hear him. She heard a faint scream in the distance and alarmed she cried out his name dashing out into the snow. She ran and ran until she found him, laying on the ground, passed out in the cold snow which had began to bury him like a tomb.
"Ryan!" Her voice shook as she brushed the snow off of him and scooped him into her arms. "Hey wake up...please...come on."
The only move he made was a shivering and trembling movement as tears fell down his cheeks through his eye lids. With an grunt Mara pulled him onto her back, it was an heavy load for her but she knew she had to get him out of the snow.
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Keith growled, watching the events on an screen as Mara carried Ryan on her back towards the cave. No longer able to take it, he turned away, leaving the room, fists clenched.
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Gently Mara laid Ryan down when they got to the cave and began to gently stroke his hair back. She, by herself had built an small fire near them in an attempt to keep him warm. Slowly he opened his eyes, the first thing he saw was Mara whom gazed down at him.
"I..." His voice was horse but she put his finger to her lips hushing him quietly.
"Don't speak, rest. You were out in the snow, you need to rest or else you'll catch a cold." She whispered stroking back his bangs, his blue eyes were so beautiful in the fire light.
"Mara..." He smiled weakly, taking her hand in his own, causing her to look at him startled, before blushing.
"Mara, you've always been there for me, remember no matter what happens in the future, even if I die....That you'll always be my best friend."
Tears filled her eyes, and she hugged him, holding him close. " Ryan and you will always be mine. Just please, don't ever leave me again!"
"Mara...we'll never be apart, best friends never separate."
She smiled weakly. "Your right...no matter what best friends stay together."
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Rose laid down on the bed she had once shared with Tommy, staring up at ceiling, tears cascading down her cheeks. Still after all this time she couldn't believe that he was really gone. He had always been so strong and so sure of himself, it made her sick to think that he had been defeated by a simple common half-breaded scum.
"Tommy, why did you have to die and leave me alone...you were the only one I ever had, the only one who ever cared about me. I would have followed you into the pit of hell it's self so why, why did you not allow me to die with you? Living without you...it's much worst then hell. Tommy...."
FLASH
"New scars....Tommy, it's because you have the strain of both transformation crystals, that is way your body is destroying it's self. It's all my fault, I'm so sorry. Your doing this all because of me..."
"Rose, I don't mind, taking this pain to protect you. I never want to see you harmed, even if it means my own death, I will never allow you to be hurt."
FLASH
Fresh tears began to fall down her cheeks as she sobbed, turning onto her back to muffle the sounds of her cries in her pillow.
"Why Tommy, did you leave me....?"
FLASH!!
Inside the twins combined form, Tommy and rose starred at the oncoming attack.
"Rose." Tommy whispered, never removing his eyes away from Ryan's golden form.
"Tommy!" Rose whimpered, fearfully, tears shimmering in her eyes.
Ryan struck, causing an explosion.
FLASH!!
Rose was setting up, holding the limp form of Tommy in her arms.
Tommy weakly stared up into her eyes, eyes reflecting only love and guilt, her gently brushed his fingers over her cheeks before his eyes dulled lifelessly and his hand fell back to his side. Their was no reflection is his eyes now...only the look of death, as his eyes now stared at infinity.
FLASH!!
The look of anguish on her face crumbled and was replaced by an look of pure rage, clenching he teeth together she tightened her fists.
"Ryan, I swear I will kill you!"
Not noticed by her, and transformation crystals which had now become part of her body began to shimmer brightly.
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The group, shivering walked threw the snowy dessert, shielding their eyes from the snow storm as best as they could.
"Are you sure Angeles is located hear?" Alex demanded Genki icily.
"Yes. Remember Angeles is an * Hidden city * "
"But Genki." Carrie frowned confused. " I heard Angeles is suppose to be HUGE, how can it be hidden."
An proud grin spread across the boys features, and he crossed his arms over his chest. " You'll see."
Mimi smiled weakly. " Well, I'm expecting anything, I mean if you can fit houses into little capsules then imagine what else Angeles technology is capital of."
The fighter blushed at the compliment, and laughed weakly. " We're soon there guys! We should be reaching the city in an hour!"
Squall sighed drearily, gazeing up at the sky which rained with an light snow.
`Lemon will you be there? If your not, will I ever see you again?' He looked down at his daughter Pan who gazed up at him with an cute smile. `Will Pan ever know her mother?'
Lima frowned noticing the man beasts worried expression. "Hey, I'm sure Lemon will be there."
"........."
"Remember how persistent he is? He's not going to give up."
".....hn....."
She smiled. " Besides Lucifer was defeated, so perhaps Lemon returned back to normal to."
Squall blinked, staring at her for a moment. " Thanks."
She blushed. " No problem."
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They had been walking for a while, most of them was frozen. Genki suddenly stopped, frowning, and shaking his head.
"This is odd...."
The group blinked at him confused.
"What do you mean?" Ryan questioned.
Genki turned to the group, an worried and baffled expression on his face. " Angeles is not hear...it's...gone."
"WHAT!?" The group gasped.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN!? A TOWN DON'T JUST GET UP AND WALK AWAY!!!" Ryan exclaimed.
"I know that but....ah!!" The boy exclaimed startled, eyes growing. " Damn it Bra, I told you not to install that!"
The group looked at him confused. He turned to his freinds with an apologetic expression.
"Sorry guys, but when I was still a child, Bra, to protect the town from wars created something called `Mirror Angeles.' in which when people got outside the entrance of Angeles they would be brought to an mirror `world' of Angeles. We will not be able to enter town, or walk backwards even a mile. Right now we are trapped in the mirror world. Taromecika must have sat this trap up for us."
"Is there anyway out of this place." Colt asked worriedly.
"Yeah, now let me think...Yes, um, there is a gate up ahead. Citizens of Angeles can get out of the mirror world by inserting...ugh...their chip. I'll be able to open the door or us, don't worry. Let's just get moving."
"What chip, Genki?" Mimi questioned, the boy laughed weakly but didn't answer because suddenly he just stopped, eyes growing wide in alarm. Ryan had much the same reaction, and both twisted around, screaming out to both Squall and Lima, whom looked down just in time to see to cages raise up from below their feet and raise them up into the air, capturing both of them into two cages made of pure ice. No one else had time to react before, Mimi and Colt screamed and were both encased into an crystal, they both pounded on the surface inside up there blows did nothing to crack it, and their screams were mute. Ryan, Mara, Mimi, Alex and Genki looked around themselves to spot their attacker, when an gush of wind grabbed the girls and the solider and rammed them into the mountain side, like magic ice wrapped it's self around their wrists and ankles, trapping them like prisoners on the wall.
"I can feel Saiyoua's evil magic around hear..." Ryan growled, gazeing around himself ready to be attacked.
Genki shook his head. " Yeah, me to, but it's not nearly as powerful as Saiyoua or Taromecika, but it's powerful...And it was waiting hear in the mirror world for us the whole time." he turned around, staying calm. "And I guess this is the princess of Angeles Mirror world."
Ryan followed his gaze surprised and gasped. "It's you!"
Rose stood on top of an tall ice cleft, gazeing down at them sourly. No not them, she was gazeing at Ryan.
"This is your day of reckoning...." Her eyes narrowed hatefully. "Ryan!"
Genki turned his head slightly to look at Ryan to see his reaction, he knew the story, and knew for a fact killing one of his class mates was still bothering him an great deal, and knowing that Rose was the lover of that classmate, it would be trying experience of the demon-half's sprit.
"Ever since you destroyed my other half." Rose shook her head, lowering it, her voice shaking. "It's been a struggle to even breath." she looked back up at Ryan, her face and voice turning sour once again. "But this is where it all ends!"
"Just wait a minute!" Ryan protested voice on the edge of pleading.
Rose's eyes narrowed dangerously and she pulled on a bow that held her blouse shut, and ripped it off, Genki and Ryan watched in shock as it fluttered to the ground and they saw just above Rose's chest the two transformation crystals, combined together as one large one, glowing in her skin, veins running threw her flesh and into the crystal. Ryan was left speechless, horrified.
"Do you remember what Tommy told you?" She smiled wickedly. "Whether you can fully utilize the power within yourself depends on your emotions. Emotional and psychological strength if you will, and when you have to protect the one you love, you are at your strongest." Rose closed her eyes sadly, lowering her head. " That's right. Tommy was always right. By accepting this transformation crystal into my body, I've come to understand." she raised her head, looking at him. "The time has come to show you the power of love!"
She put her hands to the transformation crystal and shouted "TRANSFORM! METAMOL SLAVE!"
The transformation crystal glowed rabidly, sparking with unbelievable power which crackled all around her like lightning. She cried out in pain as she began to transform, the power so strong...
She was engulfed in bright light and the two boys were forced to cover there eyes. When the light cleared they gasped in disbelief. Rose stood before them, her skin black and covered with scales like a snake, she had no clothes on, but because of the scales and deep blackness they could not really see that much, not that they wanted to. She had grown large fangs and her thounge forked like an snake, her red hair had turned an pale green, the transformation crystal was still there, appearing like an bright red ruby scale, glowing and sparking with power. The only thing that stayed the same was her eyes, and that was the most horrific thing to look at. So full of hate and blood lust, so filled with the need for revenge. Ryan gazed up at her in horror as she clenched her fists and took an step forward.
Genki growled quickly transforming into his one winged state and got into an fighting stance.
"Genki!" Ryan called to him, causing the boy to look at him startled.
"Stay out of this one!"
"But..." The fighter gasped as suddenly Ryan began to glow golden, and went threw the transformation he went threw only twice before, into an human with golden wings. Genki put an hand to his mouth, gasping. `I understand now, why he can transform into that...into a human with golden wings, he's....'
Rose screamed, jumping down ward. "DIE RYAN!!" He hand glowed with an blue energy. "Graviton Fraber!" the energy broke up into many little lasers and shot down towards Ryan who stared at them, expressionless and unmoving. However before they struck, Ryan closed his eye, as though in acceptance.
Genki shield himself from the large explosion, and slowly as the mist cleared he turned to look, and gasped. Ryan laid on the ground bleeding, bruised and struggling to move, Rose took an step towards him, uncaring, watching as he tried to get back up.
"I'm going to rub you out." she spoke softly, charging up her attack once again. "Die golden angel! No, Ryan!"
The attack exploded into the ground where Ryan was laying, trying to breath. However victory was still far off, for when the dust cleared Genki was standing infront of Ryan, shielding both of them with an sliver light. Rose gasped, then snarled.
"Get out of the way, Genki. It is not my intention to kill you, or anyone else hear, just him."
Genki grinned. "I've recently considered doing volunteer work."
Rose raised her hand up infront of her, power crackling threw her finger tips.
"I see." She spoke coldly. "You'll be volunteering your life this time."
Both of them got into attack stances before charging towards each other, both ready to draw blood.
"Graviton Knuckle!" Rose shouted, throwing her fist which was glowing with her power
forward, Genki dodged the attack by an matter of inches before launching his own attack.
"KAMAMHA!!!"
He shouted charging his fist up with energy much like Rose did and both of their fists collided, causing an explosion of power to burst from them. They stood in combat trying to over power the other, first one who slipped would probably end up dead.
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Ryan gasped for breath, pushing himself up on his arms, to weak to stay in the form of the golden angel he fell returned back to normal. Still trying to left himself upward, he cursed under his breath.
"What am I supposed to do? I can't fight anymore." He closed his eyes as if in shame.
Get up, you must fight on
Ryan gasped eyes snapping open instantly, from his knees he stared at Ruto who stared down at him with a sad expression on her face. He glanced around them, they were standing in the middle of an beautiful ocean, he was....dreaming? No it didn't feel like a dream, but his surroundings wasn't real.
"Get up Ryan, your not finished."
"Ruto..." he whispered tears coming to his eyes, the sad looked appeared on the girls face again.
"You can still fight."
He could only stare at her.
"Can you feel your heartbeat? That's right. It means that you can still fight."
Ryan looked away almost ashamed. " But I..."
"I understand. As long as you are lost not knowing who you are, you cannot strengthen your spirit."
Ryan stared into her eyes, this woman looked like Ruto, but her words, voice and actions it wasn't Ruto. Perhaps it was, maybe it was Key?
"I can't fight against her."
Ruto's/??? eyes began to shimmer brightly, as though with unshed tears as Ryan continued on.
"I killed the one she loved with all her heart. I can't blame her for her hatred. I will have to live with that."
" No one lives without ever hurting something or someone." She knelt down, close enough to stroke his cheeks, there noses almost touching. "Now is not the time to reflect on your life. To save her and give meaning to her lovers death, you must fight."
"Save her?"
"Yes." Ruto/??? got to her feet, bowing her head sadly. " In other words, that may be the only way you can redeem yourself."
Ryan thought about this for a moment and forcefully climbed to his feet, standing strong, knowing what he had to do. Ruto/??? stared at him puzzled as he smiled.
"I will do it. I will give it all I have."
Ruto/??? smiled happily, reaching out her hand. " Let me see the talisman."
"Sure..." Ryan removed the talisman of light from around his neck and handed it to her, she brought it to her lips and kissed it, the talisman glowed brightly taking on a new form. An form of an sword with an handle made of the purest metal, a pair of large sliver wings sprouted from the end of the pure solid gold handle adorned with jewels of red, blue and sliver. Gold, red and blue, the jewels the same color of the goddess stone fragments in which Genki had right in his bag. A second tailsman appeared, along with it, shimmering a purer gold then the first, the image within was engraved with three goddesses all reaching out towards each other, two planets in the back ground behind them. Key, Saiyoua, Messiah, Earth and Gaia.
"Remember, Ryan." She spoke, handing him the sword. " There are many who watch over you. This is an advantage you have over Taromecika, and Saiyoua. Yes that is your weapon!"
She floated up in the sky, smiling down at Ryan whom stood in awe, before disappearing into a flash of light.
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Genki and Rose were still locked in mortal combat when Ryan awoke, finding himself back in his transformed state, his demon sword was laying on the ground, it shocked him to see it glow with an dark purple power, he could feel the power in it...it would be strong enough to kill all his enemy's except for maybe Saiyoua and Taromecika, ....no....
He ran towards Genki and Rose leaving the demon sword behind, powering up he dashed toward them, allowing enough of his power unleashed to only cause Genki and Rose to flinch backwards as he shouted to them
"STOP IT!!"
"Ryan what do you think your doing, your still badly hurt." Genki commented concerned.
"It's my battle Genki! This does not concern you!? What were you planing to do anyway? You don't really want this to end in another meaningless sacrifice!?"
"...." Genki looked at the ground ashamed. " I was going to kill her....I let my power get the better of me. Your right there have been far to much meaningless sacrifices...But let me warn you that she no longer has a human soul. Anger and hate has a way of taking that away...Ryan listen to me, if you fight you'll probably end up dead."
Ryan's eyes shimmered as he looked at Rose whom growled bitterly. "It don't think its the time to be bickering, or do you think I'm a pushover?" She stood in an attack stance, ready to strike. She stood still for a moment, waiting for Ryan to make his move, but all what he did was stand still.
"What's wrong? You afraid? Or are you merely plotting your response to my attack?" She smirked meanly.
"Come and get me." Ryan spoke calmly before transforming back into his original form, both Genki and Rose gasped in pure surprise and shock.
"RYAN! NO THAT'S SUICIDE!" The one winged angel cried out in horror.
"I don't know what you've got in mind, but your fooling yourself if you can beat me!" Rose exclaimed, still in fighting stance.
"ROSE CARAWAY!" Ryan spoke loudly, causing her to look at him surprised. "If your goal is to kill me pure and simple, then I'm not going to stop you!"
Rose shook with rage and look of pure anger on her face as she clenched his fist thightly.
They stood staring at each other intensely as suddenly Ryan started the battle by shouting one simple word "COME!"
Rose hissed, anger growing harder on her face as she dashed towards him, throwing an painful punch to his stomach and an kick to his face, sending him crashing to the ground. She gasped for breath, from trying to calm herself down from the emotions she felt bubbling up inside.
Weakly Ryan got back to his feet, blood running down his chin and he stared at her as she turned around to look at him, tears shimmering in her eyes. A small smile spread across his face.
"Look. You are human after all. When you cause harm to another person, you will surely be hurting your own soul."
Rose took an step back, with a whine she blocked her ears trying not hear what he was saying.
"However much you want to kill that person."
Tears formed in Rose's eyes as she still tried to block out Ryan's words.
No matter what happens I will protect you, I love you Rose. Tommy's face and voice echoed in her mind, as though to be an painful reminder of what Ryan had taken away from her.
Rose cried out in an tearful rage, tears falling from her face, and charging up her fist with her energy, she struck Ryan in the chest, cracking threw his bones, blood trailing down his skin and her fist, she sobbed as her power crackled around her, and slowly almost tenderly Ryan weakly took her hands, blood running down his chin, and slowly down an bad gash on his forehead, he whispered
"I'm sorry."
The hate vanished from her face, leaving behind only tears and an baffled look of confusion and pain. She slowly removed her fist, her power fading away she stared at him, tears dancing in her eyes, lost for words.
`Tommy...." She whispered before she sobbed, passing out in Ryan's arms, transforming back into her normal state. Ryan lowered her on to the ground, worriedly as she wouldn't move, Genki and the rest of his friends whom had been released from their prisons ran towards him. The demon-half shook her, feeling an edge of panic, the group backing away frightened as they saw the veins around the transformation crystal move.
"Oh no..." Genki breathed, putting an hand to his mouth.
"What is it?" Ryan asked alarmed.
"This crystal...I can sense it's power...it's going to rupture inside of her, if that happens and...she'll die."
"No!"
"Don't worry Ryan, guys keep walking ahead for a little while, you'll run into a gate with a pad lock. DON'T, and I mean DON'T touch it, unless if you want to get trapped in this mirror world forever. I'm going to try and use my power against the crystal, that will cause a kind of magnetic force between the two, if it works right I'll be able to remove the crystal safely. If not...." His voice trailed off. " Let's just say, we both will be taking a swim in the life spring."
Dispite the light heartiness in his voice everyone could feel the sense of dread.
"Genki..." Mimi trailed off worriedly. " Remember your promise you made to me quite awhile ok, don't die."
"...." Genki starred at the ground for a moment before smiling at her. " Don't worry Mimi I never break my promises!"
Though still worried she nodded and followed the rest of her friends slowly. Ryan turned around. "Thanks Genki."
"Oh Ryan!" Genki called back to him.
"Hm?"
"Don't forget you sword!"
The demon-half slapped his forehead feeling foolish and scooped up his demon-sword and placing it back in it's hilt, before turning to leave again.
"Ryan!"
"What Genk---" Ryan froze eyes growing wide.
The other boy just smiled, secretively and held out the golden sword he saw in his dream.
"I was referring to this sword Ryan."
The demon-half shook his head confused and looked down, the old talisman was gone, replaced by the new one, and the sword.... the dream was real...but how did Genki...?
The hyper boy smiled handing him the sword. "Your going to need it, trust me."
Ryan smiled, taking the sword in his hands. "Thank you."
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"Saiyoua, Rose was not able to stop them..." Taromecika bowed his head in guilt.
"That's quite all right, I'm actually kind of glad..." She grin widened. " The next chapter in this story of our lives is going to end with a real big bang. I can't wait."
Keith smirked, overhearing what his mother was saying. " I can't wait, either."
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The group had been waiting at the gate for fifteen minuets, and it had taken them around twenty to reach it and Genki was still not there. They were on the verge of going back to look for him when his cheerful voice called out to them, walking towards them carrying Rose in his arms, her otherwise naked body protected from the cold by a thick and long white blanket Genki had stored in one of the capsules. She stared at the group an apologetic smile on her face but other then that she said nothing. They all breathed sighs of relief, seeing that both of them were still alive.
"Hey, somebody hold her for a moment."
Ryan accepted her into his arms and she stared up at his face sadly. " I'm sorry too, we attacked you, we made you..."
"Shhh, it's all right. Let's start over."
She nodded weakly and along with the rest of the group turned to watch as Genki approached the pad locked gate.
"Hey, you didn't tell us where that chip is." Carrie reminded.
"Yeah, I work on Angeles police department and I never got chip!" Lima frowned.
Genki laughed teasingly. "Maybe they didn't want you back. Just kidding, you have to be a pure Angeles citizen born and raised to have a chip."
"So where is it?" Colt asked interestedly.
"Um...Could I borrow you dagger Colt?" Genki asked a little strangely.
"Uhhh, sure."
Genki tested the sharpness of the cold steel blade with his index finger, making the group sort of nervous, and ended up nearly giving them heart attacks when suddenly he cut the back of his arm, going from the elbow to almost his wrist.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?" Mimi shrieked horrified.
Genki laughed, handing Colt back his dagger who took it with trembling hands staring at the blood that stained it.
"Opps, nearly cut an artery." The boy chuckled before reaching into the opened wound and pulling out an strange flat card, wires and electricity flowing threw it. It was long and very thin, black and the electricity was blue.
"Are you a machine?" Alex asked, almost sounding alarmed, while everyone else swallowed hard in disgust and shock.
"No!" The boy smiled almost...cutely. " It's just that we didn't want to end up loosing our cards and allowing just anybody in, so what better place to hide and keep something then within your own body? It's painful as hell to get out, and I'll probably need stitches, but, oh well."
The group stood there gapping at him in disbelief as he slid the card threw the pad lock and opened the gate.
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When the group stepped threw they were expecting to be in Angeles but were instead back out in the cold snowy dessert.
"HEY!" Mara growled. " AREN'T WE SUPPOSE TO BE IN ANGELES RIGHT NOW!?"
"No we are just out of the mirror world." Genki answered simply. " Don't worry though, Angeles is right infront of you."
Everybody looked at each other baffled and confused, ahead of them was just an endless snow and ice.
"Genki..." Ryan frowned worriedly. " Are you all right? You didn't loose to much blood back there, did you?"
"Huh?"
Lima put her hand on his forehead. " You don't feel feverish."
"I'M NOT FEVERISH!!!" He snapped, reaching into his bag he had swung over his shoulder and taking out his lab top, turning it on his typed in a few buttons, and inserted the chip into the disk slot. An grin spread across his face,
"Watch."
The group gazed in awe as the snow before disappeared and Angeles came into view, it was an HUGE city filled with machines and lights. It was amazing to say the least.
"Wow!" Lima's eyes shown.
"It's beautiful!" Mimi and Mara gasped together.
Everyone else just looked at it transfixed.
"Guys, I know it's beautiful, but we have to get moving or else the gate will shut, now lets go! TO ANGELES!!" Genki exlcaimed seriously.
"YEAH! TO DEFEAT THE GODDESS AND SAVE RUTO!" The group cheered.
"SO LET'S GO!" Genki cheered jumping up into the air.
If only they knew the tragedies that would await them...