Fan Fiction ❯ The Goddess Sagas ❯ Kill the spiders... ( Chapter 46 )

Chapter Forty-five: Kill the spiders...

Ryan opened his eyes, blinking confused. He was laying on a bed in a small room, memories came flooding back to him, and sat there for awhile with a drained expression. Slowly he looked down at his hands...his cloned, Kamertion hands.

He did a double take and noticed that his clothes had been changed. He looked down at them and saw that his black jeans had been changed to a pair of black silk pants, his forest green tank top had been removed and he wore an silk long sleeved black shirt, a priest collar attached to it. Draped around his shoulders was a long cape and like the rest of his clothes made of black silk. He got to his feet, now adorned in black knee high boots, the bottoms and ends of it were metal, but did not feel heavy on his feet at all. He wondered over to a black mirror, gazeing at it reflection. His hair hand been respiked back into his usual style, his scar was gone from off of his face...and brushed his fingers over the place where it had once been.

"Ryan."

He turned around startled looking at Keith whom stood leaned against the wall, looking surprised yet smug at the same time.

"I never thought you of all people would join our cause."

".....Why not....It's what I was created to do...." Ryan spoke depressed.

"........." Keith watched him for a moment silently. "Humph, you really have given up haven't you? I thought for sure you'd at least look to attack me."

"....Why bother, I'm a puppet, you said so yourself. You took control of me before...it would be little use to fight you now..."

"Well, it's good to see you have come to your senses, so I guess I can give you these." Keith tossed Ryan the winged sword and the talisman of light which he caught easily.

"Why do I need these? I'm not the guardian of light anymore."

"For a keep sake, Ryan, besides only the person wearing those items can present the stone before the goddess, if I or my father tried we would burned alive by the stone."

"Do you think I could still wear this?" Ryan frowned looking at the items of light in his hands.

"I don't know, but we don't have to worry about that right now. Ryan, this may sound strange, but I want to ask, I was not able to find out from reading Mara's clone's mind, but...did Genki say anything before he died."

"....Genki....He...He would be so mad at me right now...." Ryan said slowly. "To see me switched sides..."

"Probably, he was always short tempered, but he had gray wings." Keith spoke calmly. "He was neither good or evil, innocent, yes. But you don't have to be good or pure to be innocent."

"....He said some things to Mimi....but...."

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".....I....only wish....I could help you guys...kick Saiyoua's ass.....oh well.....guys....I ....have to tell you this now....something else....evil is going to happen....not....now....but someday....soon...promise me....you will fight...then too, to save Gaia and earth.........."

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"He said...something else evil is going to happen, not now but someday soon. He wanted us all to fight then to save Gaia and earth." Ryan spoke, feeling guilt. `Stop it Ryan....you can't feel things, your just a living pile of cells, animated with stolen Magention...just accept it, be a puppet, things will be much easier on you.... you kept on resisting, and resisting it... and you ended up hurting your friends.... hopefully they will come, destory me, Keith, Taromecika and Saiyoua... but all the while I wish this I know I will fight against them...I have no choice... I am a puppet.'

"What?' Keith looked puzzled. "What the hell did he mean? A new evil...no way....my mother....our mother, will destory everything, no one is stronger then she."

"Keith, what is the goal of Saiyoua? The real goal?"

Keith studied Ryan with an slight interest. " Mother's goal is simple. Summon Oisa the giver of justice and the punished of the guilty, he will destory everything evil on the planet...everything with sin and guilt. Suck all the evil Magention out of the planet so only the pure things will remain. Mother is not called the dark goddess because she is evil, but because she devours the evil, and destroys the darkness. It's not her fault is Oisa sees humans as evil. They are destroying the planet, Ryan and the only way to save it would be to destory everything that caused harm on it, before it ends up like earth."

"Like...earth?"

"The truth of the matter is, that the Brief family came from earth years ago."

"What?" Ryan asked startled. "You mean, Genki was not of pure Gaia blood...you mean he was from earth?"

"Yes, His grandparents traveled from earth and brought great technology with them, and Angeles grew from an backwater place to the biggest city in Gaia. My family, the Soun's married in with the Brief's, mixing Gaia and Earth blood. The reasons that Saiyoua is in this city is because of the darkness the Brief's brought with them from earth."

"What is so...evil about earth?"

"....I don't know...but mother tells me it's a machine planet with a machine soul, being slowly pecked to pieces by people who thrive and feed apon it like hungry parasites. I don't want Gaia to end up like that, do you?"

"......N....No....." Ryan shook his head, face turning pale. He was not sure anymore, if he should wish for Saiyoua to win or not.

"One of your friends, tinker bell, I think said, that there is no such thing as good or evil, just two sides sharing different views. You or your friends never tried to look at it threw Saiyoua's point of view. You'll see, Key is the truly evil selfish-one. She doesn't care if your left alone, or if you die, she just wanted to leave you all...she wanted to leave you abandoned without hope, without love, without a savior. Saiyoua will save the planet, Key will let it rot."

".........What about Ruto?" Ryan asked, his heart felt sore.

Keith looked at him strangely. "Ruto...she is Saiyoua and she is Key, she is many people, she is the girl you loved, she is Aya, the woman father loved, she is Key and she is Saiyoua. Marie-Maya is Marie-Maya."

".............." Ryan trembled inside, the emotion he was feeling was complex....he wasn't sure it even had a name let alone how to describe it. "Keith, why are you acting so different towards me now then you did down stairs just a little while ago?" he asked instead, he couldn't bring himself to think about Ruto he could only feel as though he had betrayed her. But did he really....? After all.....she was Saiyoua....

"Then? Well, let's see, you showed resistance to me, you fought against me...you kept Mara away from me....you still believed yourself stronger then me, but now you've come to accept that you are my puppet, that you are my shadow, that you were cloned of Saiyoua's Kamertion that had been in my veins. That you are nothing but a clone and you have come to fight for my cause, and Mara...." Keith's eyes glazed over in a crazy fashion. "She is with me now....always...never going to leave......"

".............Is the others....?"

"There not your friends anymore, but right now they are fighting their clones. Tenki thinks he is brilliant but, he is not Bra...the clones will fail."

"Ohh......"

"So, what do you think of the clothes?"

Ryan looked down at himself again. "......Ummm...."

Keith laughed, ruefully. "Your part of Saiyoua's team now, you should dress the part, besides, your wearing one of my outfits, so you better not call it down."

"...............What happened to the scar? The scar you gave me?"

Ryan pulled back startled as Keith leaned close to him, and brushed his pale fingers against the area of his face.

"We used the dark power to heal you, we injected you with more Kamertion to fix up the bodily injuries you suffered. The reason why you were constantly sick was because the Kamertion wasn't able to keep it's self together, that is why your body was falling apart, but as long as you work on our side, we will stop your body from rotting away into the cells it was made from, but if you stupidly decide to betray us....you'll end up dying within the time period of a few little years. Also, you magention was rebelling against the Kamertion, which is why everyone thought it was spirt poisening. The real Ryan exsistes inside of you, that explains the dreams you had about your mother dying, the flashbacks, and...how you see him taunting you in your mind."

"..............."

"Come on, Before the birth of Saiyoua and Osia begins I want to show you what we are fighting against, come on."

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"And so you see...The Ryan that you know is not the real Ryan." Lena finished telling the story to a bewildered Bra and Rose, Aria lessened with interest.

"So, Keith is Saiyoua's angel, Genki was Messiah's therefore Ryan must be Key's." She said as though an five year old could understand this whole concept.

"What?" Bra asked confused, looking down at the small girl. "Aria what are you saying."

The little girl smiled cutely. "Oh, it's nothing, Bra! It just reminded me of the story Genki told me once about the angels of the goddesses."

"The angels of the goddesses...Aria...Was my little brother really an angel?" Bra asked, still sorrowful about his death.

The little girl's smile widen, a very secretive smile. "Oh...he is much more then that."

"What?"

"It's a secret, Heh." She laughed lightly. "Genki told me never to tell, and he would get mad at me if I did."

"Get mad at you? Secret?" Bra shook her head confused. "Aria what are you talking about? Genki's....he's not around anymore to get mad at you...he's....he's dead."

"No...He is not."

Bra drew back shocked. "What are you saying, Aria!?"

"I am saying that, Genki is in the life stream, his body may of died but his Magention is still in it's full state, it did not break down in the stream....it never will either."

".........."

"Bra, don't make me say anymore, if I do, Genki will be mad, I promised him!"

"....I know how important promises was to Genki...I want to know, but I wont make you break your promise."

"Genki...I wouldn't be surprised if he was an angel." Maria thought out loud. "He was always so kind and gentle...purely innocent."

".........." Bra looked at her feet sadly.

"Ah!" Aria cried, putting her hand to her heart.

"What is it?" Lena asked, concerned.

"The light....it's...it's fading! I...I think the darkness is over shadowing the light!"

"What!?" Rose exclaimed. "I have to get back there and help!" she turns to run but is stopped by Lena.

"You can't!"

"Why the bloody hell not!"

"If the darkness can over shadow even the guardian of light, it will have no trouble in over taking you, for your heart is still full of hate and anger, and your heart is sinful. Though you've switched sides that does not change the terrible things you did in your past...it does not change all the children you killed."

"......." Rose spat, leaving the room angrily.

"AHHH!! NO!!" Lemon cried, setting up in bed, eyes wide and wavering, fists clutching the cloth of his robes.

The three people left in the room looked at him startled.

"How can you be awake!?" Bra exclaimed shocked.

The boy sat on the bed crying, shaking his head as though he was shaking it in denial at something they could not see.

"Lemon?' Lena asked approaching him slowly.

"Ryan....Ryan is under there control....I can feel it...I...I can still sense his thoughts...having been inside his mind before my power faded away entirely....he found out the truth...he found it all out."

"Lemon.... Is he possessed by something.... did he join them of his own free will?" Lena asked slowly.

"......He lost his mind from the shock of the knowledge.... Ryan would often have delusions before... and attack us.... but he always became normal again but now... now he's really gone crazy... he's forever lost in that black void of nothingness now.... the dark ocean of guilt and sin....and....and It's all my fault!!" Lemon sobbed, hiding his face into his hands.

"How is it your fault?" Bra asked confused.

"Of all people, I was the one that helped create him, the clone of the real one." Lena said softly, trying to comfort him, but making herself feel guilty in the process.

"I WAS THE ONE THAT KILLED LOU!!" Lemon screamed at her in pain, causeing the woman to take a step backwards in shock. Lemon looked down, squeezeing the blankets that covered him from the waist down, tears rolling down his cheeks. "I was the one whom stopped Ryan and Parfait from going to Angeles, if they had, they would of been safe...a clone would never have been created and....things would have been different but now...now Lou is...dead...and the light is being over shadowed with darkness and madness....it's all my fault this is happening!" Lemon fell onto the bed sobbing. "It's all my fault!!"

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Clone Lima jumped into the hair, smacking Lima on top of the head. Shaking off the dizziness Lima turned to her clone, bringing her arms up infront of her to defend herself as she got ready to attack, and as her clone went to punch her, sent an uppercut to her chin, sending her clone crashing to the ground with an yelp. The clone was back on her feet quickly however and pushed Lima to the ground, where she fell painfully onto her butt, she got to her feet quickly, only to be knocked down again by a powerful kick sent to the side of her head.

"Water Twister!!"

The attack slammed into Lima as she was staggering back to her feet but she hit the ground again with an grunt. Her clone approached her but before she could be attacked again, Lima sent a kick to her breast from where she lay on the ground followed by a water arrow attack. The clone staggered but was far from ready to give up and sent a punch, followed by a kick to the side and a kick to the stomach, sending Lima flying against the wall. With a groan Lima charged forward, but her clone was on a rampage, sending a punch to her face an kick to her legs and slam with the side of her hand against her back. Lima stumbled onto one knee, but pushed herself back up giving two punches to her clones face before Clone Lima sent a slap to hers followed by yet another kick. With an painful growl Lima sent a kick to her clone whom blocked, but was unready to block the trip, and as she fell to the ground Lima sent a punch to underneath her jaw, sending her head over heels. The clone was not down for the count yet and summoned her mist bubbles, stopping Lima being able to see where she was and in this time was hit by several punches and a water bomb attack.

Lima hit the ground with an pitiful yelp, she bleeding badly, but as the fog cleared she saw so was her clone. She knew...she knew she could not give up now!

She was back on her feet only to get slammed on top of the head again and sent crashing back into the ground. Her clone smirked in superiority but this spilt second of letting her guard down allowed Lima to strike, she sent a trip to the legs, and uppercut and a slam to the top of the head to her clone, and this time the copy was the one beaten to the ground. Clone Lima tried to get back up but was rewarded by double kicks to the stomach and chest by the original and was back down on her back again. Angry she got back to her feet and avoided Lima's punches and kicks, but got herself moved back into the corner. With an growl she sent two punches to Lima face, hooked her legs with her foot and sent her stumbling backwards, however instead of letting her fall she grabbed her by her hair and twirled her in the hair before slamming her onto the stairs. Lima screeched out painfully as an heavy foot crashed down onto her chest and she felt her machine arm being twisted. Her rib cage was being crushed and her twisted arm prevented her from moving, but she knew if she stayed in this position she would be an easy kill. She pushed herself to her feet, dispite what she knew would happen. The way her arm was being held would break, but it was better then dying. As she climbed to her knees she screamed out as her cyborg arm broke off in Clone Lima's hands, but dispite the pain and only having one arm left, she was not ready to give up. She slammed her clone to the ground in a fit of anger, and pointed her two index fingers which began to glow blue down at her. The clone's eyes went wide as Lima fired the fishing attack.

"COLD MIST!!"

"AHHHHHHHHHH!!!" Blue energy washed over the clone in a shimmering blue dust and went in cleared the clone was turned to ice.

Lima breathed heavily, landing on her knees tired, and gripping where her missing arm was. Funny it had been cyborg implant but it still hurt.

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Carrie and her clone fought viciously with both magic and fists. Carrie grabbed her clone and threw her over her head onto the ground, and held her by her shoulders onto the ground and gave her a kick to the side. Clone Carrie hissed getting away from her and sent a kick to the girl's crotch, sending her stumbling over on two knees. As Carrie tried to push herself up off the ground, her clone was already half standing, ready to strike her, and she did sending a punch to her chest then to her face. Carrie fell on to her back again, but from where lay charged up an magical blast and sent in flying at her clone, causing her to fly back against the wall, the clone was ready to attack again though, but so was Carrie.

"MAGICAL BEAMS!!!"

"MAGICAL ORBS OF LIGHT!!!"

The two attacks collided and exploded, sending both girls falling back.

Clone Carrie dashed forward sending a kick to Carrie's chin then to the top of her head, Carrie stumbled but did not fall and growling in anger sent three punches to the clones stomach and a kick in-between her legs, sending the other girl sprawling back onto the steps, rolling down a few of them with painful groans.

"MAGIC CRYSTAL!!" Carrie cried stomping her foot on the ground in anger, her clone screamed as a magical crystal came up from underneath the ground and impaled her threw the stomach.

"You can't win!" Carrie spat, angrily.

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The two fairy-half's circled each other, carefully eyeing the other, waiting for one to strike. Clone Mimi went for the first blow, sending a slap to the side of Mimi's face and kneeing her in the gut. Mimi groaned falling on to her knees, but before she had a chance to recover her clone hit her underneath the chin, sending her crashing onto her back. Not relenting one bit she leapt with both feet onto Mimi's stomach, causing the girl to cry out, some blood trickling down her chin.

The clone smiled tauntingly down at her victim, but Mimi was not about to give up.

"PETAL DANCE!!"

Her clone shrieked being pushed back by the storm of flower petals. Somersaulting backwards Mimi leapt on top of her twins shoulders, lifting her hand which glowed with pink magic into the air before tapping her clones chest and jumping off. Clone Mimi looked down at where Mimi touched her, seeing the energy glow faintly.

"DAISY BOMB!!" Mimi exclaimed and the pink energy exploded, sending her cloned blasting up into the air then crashing onto the floor. Pushing herself up with her hands, the clone slammed her feet into Mimi's body, sending them both sliding down the steps, kicking and punching at each other. Mimi received the most blows being gentle by nature and not prone to using her fists, but she wasn't out of the fight yet!

"I WONT LOOSE!!!" Mimi called, an pink spear of energy forming into her hand and taking on a form of an pink bladed sword red jewels adorning the blades, the handle was golden and the top had the figure of an large white crystal rose. She looked at it in bewilderment. "What is this....?"

A gift

She heard a voice say in her head, she smiled, posing herself in a position ready to fight, replying to the voice silently in her head. `Thank you Genki.'

"No fair!" Her clone cried, shielding herself with her arms fearfully from the blade.

"I wont let you destory me!" Mimi exclaimed, swiping at her. Though not experienced with handling swords she missed, and her clone leapt off of her back side into the air. Clone Mimi raised both hands above her head.

"THORNS!!!!"

Mimi cried, trying to avoid the large rose vines which came up from underneath the ground, their thrones as sharp as needles. Dodging them all, lucky to not get impaled, Mimi got ready to fly up at her opponent but saw her heading straight at her, hand glowing with energy, ready to deliver an killing blow. Mimi gasped, crying out, but as her clone neared she disappeared leaving behind only a few pale pink rose petals in her place.

"What the?" The clone said startled, looking around. "Where...!?"

"Over hear!"

The clone looked over at her startled, and screamed fearfully as Mimi brought the sword slashing down at her. Mimi trembled as she cut Clone Mimi right down the chest to her hip, blood sprayed from the wound all over her and the clone fell down dead on the steps, her eyes wide with fear. Mimi bowed her head in apology.

"I'm sorry, you didn't leave me with choice."

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Squall and his clone still battled it out in wolf form, both having their white fur drenched with blood, the results of many scratches and bites. The two were growling, clawing each other into the face at the moment, before the clone decided to do a sneak attack and ram his head into Squall's gut. He tripped to the ground, and felt teeth rip into his side. With an glow Squall slashed at the side of the others face, ripping the left side into shredded meat. The clone howled in pain and rage before charging at Squall and sent a vicious blow to the right side of his face. Squall shuddered at the pain, trying to bite his clone but missed him and yelped as he felt sharp jaws sink into his tail. He stabbed Clone Squall in the side with his claws, it was enough to make the other whimper and stagger away. Bites and scratches continued until, Squall pinned his clone to the ground and wasted no time in ripping his throat out.

He turned back into human form, a stared down at the form of his dead clone.

"Hear the cry of the wolf? If you do it means your already dead."

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"WIND SHIFT!!"

"WIND SHIFT!!"

Parfait and clone Parfait screamed, both getting hit by each other's attacks, and sent staggering back. The clone growled and then charged at the real, knocking her to the ground, where they rolled, bickering and fighting. Parfait punched her clone to times in the face from where she lay under her on the ground, and the clone sent to punches to her face. Pushing the clone off of her using another wind attack, Parfait climb to her feet, flexing her claws to strike, hissing, her tail fluffing in warning. Her clone growled dashing at her, sending a kick to the side of her neck, Parfait dodged and tripped the clone, but ended up getting tripped herself as the copy sank her nails into her leg upsetting her down next to her. Parfait went to push herself upward, but was hammered back down as her clone threw herself on top of her. She cried out in pain as she felt teeth enter into her shoulder.

"Get off!!" Parfait hissed, pushing the clone off of her, causing the teeth to rip her skin, causing blood to spill out onto the white top of her school uniform. She clenched the wound with her hand, blinking back tears....it hurt, she wasn't use to this.

"WIND WINGS!!" The clone shouted, a gush of wind raising her into the air, where she leapt down, striking Parfait with both of her feet.

"Ahh!!" Parfait somersaulted down a few flights of steps, skinning her knees. "Ouch..." she sniffled pushing herself to her feet, seeing her clone laughing at her, Parfait growled angrily.

"Now you've done it. You've gone and made me mad, not wise considering I am part demon! TWISTER OF DESTRUCTION!!!"

"Huh!?" Clone Parfait's eyes widened as an huge twisted made out of wind magic caught her and lifted her up into the air, she screamed out in pain as the wind ripped her apart and she fell to the floor in a bloody broken mess. Parfait smiled putting an arm up into the air in victory.

"Don't mess with a demon-chick with an attitude!"

"Woah..." Carrie whispered, turning to Squall. "Remind me not to get on her bad side..."

"Uh...yeah...." Squall nodded slowly.

"Well...well." Clone Ryan mussed, as the five clones of their friends walked up to them. "Good job, we didn't expect you to be able to beat yourselves, now, try us on for size."

The group lined up ready to fight each other

Lemon VS Squall

Mara VS Lima

Alex VS Carrie

Genki VS Mimi

Ryan VS Parfait

Though it was not really their friends...it would be hard to fight them all the same.

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"Ryan, look at this city." Keith spoke as he and Ryan stood on the balcony, they over looked the city full of machines, dead and empty, smoke clouding the sky.

"It's horrible, and ugly. It was like this before Saiyoua came, a city of machines."

".........."

"I never noticed it until now, until mother opened my eyes. We are living like dogs...like vermin...see this city. Take a good look at it, it's nothing but a soulless machine. This city is just a tiny piece of earth the Brief family brought hear with them."

"....You mean?"

"Yes. All of earth is nothing but a machine world filled with people who has machine hearts. The same thing will happen to Gaia, it will become nothing but a artificial planet. You see what humans are going to do to it. It has already started and hear in Angeles is the center of the infection...the center of the diseases, which is why this is the place mother will wipe clean first! Osia will stop the disease from spreading..."

".........." A cold wind blew past, making him shiver, the town was indeed horrible. Genki had once told him that Angeles was a beautiful place filled with lights and sounds and people...many lights and sounds meant machines didn't they? What if....what if Saiyoua was right all along?

"Ryan, forget what Genki might of told you. There was never anything beautiful about this place. People, including Genki loves advancement, machines and technology, to them it is sort of a power. Through machines they can play god. They don't care if the planet is destroyed...the life stream is being polluted with evil souls, and life stream feeds the planet, what does that mean for Gaia?"

".....It....it could only mean utter destruction..." Ryan trailed off slowly.

"Everyone on the planet will die, but at least the planet will be able to breath." Keith spoke slowly, and turned to Ryan. "You understand what I am telling you?"

".....I think so."

"Good. Come, mother and father are waiting for us, fallow me, puppet."

"......." Ryan sighed heavily as he followed Keith back inside, he knew he was a puppet he didn't have a choice over what his body did...but his mind...it was starting to think that maybe Saiyoua's plan was justice after all....and it made him feel horrible inside.

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"Squally." C.Lemon smiled cutely. "You wouldn't want to hurt me, of all people! Squall come on! Just give up, and surrender to me. Please."

"Do you think I wouldn't be able to tell my lover from a copy?" Squall almost laughed. C.Lemon frowned bitterly.

"How dare you, listen to me Squall, I can be everything of Lemon, plus more, I can be everything you've ever wanted. Do you really want to kill me and go back to an imperfect lover who might be dead when you get there?"

Squall bristled at the clone's words. "You rotten bastard. Lemon is my perfect love! Sure, he may be loud at times, overly cheerful in the morning, and can easily wrap me around his little finger to get me to do things I don't want to do, like change Pan's diapers, but, he is real, and I love him. I would never choose a mere man made copy over him, no matter if he's been dead for a thousand years, I could never turn to another."

"Didn't you feel the same way about Ganderdof, Squall?" The clone sniffed.

"And Lemon would never in a million years bring up such a hurtful comment, no matter how mad he got at me!"

"Fine then, Squall, I dare you to kill me! Let's continue from the battle you and Lemon left off at in Angelo. Let's pretend it's an AU, a universe where we never became lovers and where one of us died on that battle field."

Squall smirked. "Your into little games just like Lemon I see, though Lemon's is never so deadly. But if you want to die that much then, why not!? Brace yourself!"

"No, you brace yourself, for I, Mauls Yamearesa, shall slay you man-beast!"

"Oh, so your going to use Lemon's real name?" Squall asked, half transformed into a man-beast the way he was on that battle field.

"Well, yeah, I told you, this is an AU." Mauls said calmly, pointing his scythe at Squall. "Ready?! Let's fight!"

With a growl Squall clawed Mauls across the face, causing the boy to yelp, putting his hands to the wound, and in this moment of distraction sent two powerful punches to his stomach sending him rolling onto the ground with an yelp. The clone tried to push himself back up but Squall was already hammering into his face with his fists, knocking him back down again. The man-beast hesitated for moment....he looked so much like Lemon. Seeing the man beasts hesitation Lemon rolled out of the way and from the ground, on his two knees, got into a ready position to fight. It did him little good though as Squall recovered from his slight hesitation and sent two kicks to his face, knocking him back onto the ground. Snarling angrily Lemon got to his feet and swiped at Squall with his scythe, but missed his chance as the man-beast placed his hands on his shoulders, and used his attackers own body to push himself up into the air behind them. Mauls turned around swiping his scythe again, and at the same time Squall was sending a punch. This time Mauls over powered him and Squall hit the floor. He was back on his feet in an instant though and the two of them began circling each other, trying to get the opportunity to attack. Mauls dashed forward, looking to impale the other with his long claws and his weapon, but the real Lemon not knowing how to physically fight well, neither did his clone and Squall sent a kick to the side of his face, to his stomach, and then hooked his head with his legs and threw the boy up into the air. Mauls crashed painfully onto the floor, while Squall continued to stand in an ready to attack position.

Angered Mauls flew forward, and managed to get a kick in under Squall's jaw, and a hand chop to the side of his neck. The man-beast crashed on to the floor, with a small groan, but of course was not out for the count. He dashed to his feet, but Mauls fueled by anger was able to attack him, sending an painful kick to the knees, before grabbing his arm, digging his claws into his flesh, and with his other hand, impaled him in the stomach with his Scythe.

With a groan the wolf man staggered back, pushing himself off of the ground with one hand, another holding the bleeding wound as he slowly looked up at Mauls who smiled cutely but evily at him before getting back into a fighting position.

Squall threw a weak punch at him, but missed, and ended up getting punched to the face, and kicked to the chest, he pushed himself off the ground, back slumped against the wall for support, but ended up being slammed but the palms of Malus's hands against it, causing him to groan painfully, and then the scythe came again impaling him back into the wound. As Mauls removed the weapon, Squall fell to his knees holding his stomach.

The clone laughed giddily and allowed the other to fall face forward onto the steps, and gloated as he watched him try and get to his feet. When finally Squall was standing Mauls began punching and kicking him, causing him to bleed violently. With an hiss of rage and pain Squall dodged one of Maul's punches and sent a mighty chop to the back of his neck, causing him to cry out and slam face first against the wall. Mauls stumbled towards him, but fueled with an new power brought on by anger, Squall grabbed him by the collar of the loose robes and sent punches to his face. Kicking him in the shin Mauls managed to work himself loose from the others grasp, and sent a punch flying at him. It missed however, and circling his legs around the clone's neck, Squall sent him crashing onto the steps, with an painful yelp.

Mauls, hissing and baring his fangs got back to his feet and wrung his scythe, however missing Squall and ended up shattering it against the wall.

"No!" He cried out in fear.

From behind, Squall grabbed his shoulder, forcing the clone to look at him before attacking again, his was holding his shoulders as he punched him into the face. As a desperate attempt the clone tripped him, sending them both crashing to the ground. They rolled around, fighting against each other, but Squall over powered Mauls, and after sending a few more punches to his being jumped to his feet landing on the boys neck.

Mauls tried to scream but his neck was crushed and blood began to bubble in his mouth

Squall stepped off and looked down at the broken display. Mauls's eyes were wide, and blood was coming out of them, as did blood come out his ears and mouth. The neck was crushed flat like a pan cake by his weight...it was disgusting and horrible to look at....harder for him because to him he felt like he had just killed Lemon. But he knew better...that cloned copy was not his Lemon.

"You will never take the place of Lemon!"

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"I can't believe I'm stuck fighting a weak little onna." Alex frowned, loading his gun.

"I can't believe I'm fighting a soulless copy. I was never really that close to Alex, but he was my friend, but don't think for a moment I can't tell the difference between him an a artificial copy. Besides, I am not weak. I can beat you anytime anywhere." Carrie said.

"Fine then, let's see about that."

"Ok then! Let's see!"

"Magical Thrust!" Carrie's body glowed white and she leapt forward, however Alex just sent a kick to her stomach, sending her crashing back on to the ground. Carrie pushed herself up with an gasp and growled.

"ORBS!!"

The energy orbs crashed into Alex, causing him to stagger and Carrie leapt back to her feet, ready to fight. Alex clone, though was relentless and crashed his leg down on the top of her head, before she could push herself fully back up to her feet, he aimed his gun at her, shooting her in the shoulder.

"Ahh!!" She cried painfully, and began pushing herself up. Alex aimed the gun back down at her, but she was not about to get shot again. She sent two jabs to the side of his leg, before hand-standing and wrapping her feet around his neck, sending him crashing into the floor, cracking it.

Carrie stood over him, ready to make her next move, heart beating in her chest. Her eyes spotted the gun but it was to late to get it away from his grasp, he got back to his feet, and shot at her again, she dodged just in time and had it graze her ear. The clone slammed his fists into her two at a time. It hurt tons, but with a angry hiss she grabbed him by the arm and threw him over her shoulder. He angrily got back to his feet, and sent double kicks to her side, then one kick to her chest, sending her stumbling backwards, when he shot again. She wasn't able to miss the bullet this time and it got her in the hip. She cried out again gripping it, as blood covered her hand...she wasn't about to give up...no yet...not ever, and cast a spell

"MAGICAL BEAM!!"

Alex was hit in chest by the beam, sending him stumbling against the wall. He looked up at her with an growl, and shot again. Carrie moved her head in time to get only slightly grazed by the bullet against the cheeks, blood spilling down it. She frowned angrily, she would kill him.

The ran at each other, Carrie ducked an punch and he avoided her kick, finally she tripped him, sending him falling but he was right back up again before she could do anything and kicked her in her bleeding side causing her to yelp painfully. The exchanged punches and blows for a few minutes, each becoming a bloody pulp, Carrie though looked like she was about to loose until she managed to grab him by the arm, throwing him back into the wall.

"CRYSTAL SPEAR!!" She hissed, using most of her reserved power, and impaled him though the stomach with the large crystal, leaving him hanging on the wall like an horrible decoration.

"Not such a weak onna, am I? So what does that make you?"

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"Ow!" Lima cried out as an slap was sent to her face, angrily she sent a slap back with her one remaining hand to clone Mara.

"Why are you doing this!?" The elf cried. "Your a clone, but you don't have to fight us!"

"Sure I do! What else is there for me to do!? YAHH!!" The cat slapped Lima back into the face.

The two girls got into a huge bitch slapping and hair pulling war, acting like to spoiled sisters, ducking it out, until each were rolling on the floor pounding each other.

Lima was on the bottom and was being punched in the face, crying out painfully as her nose began to bleed, she groaned pushing the cat off of her, and raised her staff into the air.

"BUBBLES!!!"

Mara looked around herself puzzled not being able to spot Lima threw the thick mist.

"COWARD! DON'T HIDE FROM ME!!" She hissed, flexing her claws in anger.

"YAHHH!!!"

"AHHHH!!"

Mara cried out in pain and surprise as she felt something slam into her back, knocking her face forward onto the steps. Lima stood in an attack position, breathing heavily, the wires were her ripped out arm sparking with electricity.

"You.....DIIIIIIIIEEEEEE!!" Mara ran forward, ducking her head avoiding a punch and impaling Lima in the stomach with her razor claws. The elf's eyes grew wide in pain and as the claws move themselves away from the skin, blood gush from the wound like a red water fall, she fell to her knees gasping, blood trickling down her lip.

"Ha,ha,ha." Mara laughed coldly watching the elf bleed. "Your finished."

"Not Yet!" Lima growled, and using her one hand, pushed herself up into the air, wrapping her two legs around the cat's neck and sent her slamming to the ground, the clone screamed and begged to her to let go. When Lima ignored her she hissed, and in a final move sent her razor claws slamming into one of the legs, the pain was intense but with an angry yell Lima twisted her cyborg legs breaking her neck. The elf climbed to her feet, stumbling painfully, placing a hand over her heart, before falling onto her knee. She looked down at the leg that had been stabbing, the wires had been broken and if it stayed on, the leg would end up causing electricity to flow all threw her body and fry her to death.

"My leg....just like my arm, only one left...."

With a yell and whimper she grabbed the leg in her hand and pulled, ripping it off and tossing in aside. She was now missing her right arm and her left leg, what little use she would end up being. No....she could still fight with her magic....and she would dispite if she had any arms or legs at all!

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Ryan gasped as his eyes fell apon Saiyoua. Was this...was this really Ruto. The goddess was stripped of her clothing, her stomach bulging out in an large lump, black wings, and horns. She was....she was horrible looking!

She rubbed her huge stomach, and cocked her head to the side. "It took awhile for me to figure out what was draining my energy, but now I know....tsk, tsk." She shook his finger at him laughing. "So. I see that you have joined our cause do you pledge allegiance to I and I alone."

Ryan's eyes fall to the floor. "What choice do I have? I was created from your Kamertion...I have no choice but to obey what I'm told....it's was I was created for..."

Saiyoua laughed silkily. "It's nice to see that you have finally woken up and realized that! So I can trust you to destory the intruders when they come up hear?"

".................Y....Yes."

Keith smiled, wickedly, turning towards the demon-half. "I can't wait to see the look on their faces."

Ryan's face turned pained, he was fearing seeing their faces...he could only hope that they destroyed him....he was a puppet what choice did he have. All he could do was bow, say `yes master, what ever you wish.' All he could be was a slave, it's what he was created do to....it was all he was created to do.

I'm a puppet....

You tell me, I'm your puppet,

You pull my strings and I obey.

You tell me to dance, I will dance.

You tell me to cry, I will cry.

Tell me to kill, I will kill.

Kill even if I don't want to,

kill even those I love...all for you master...

I'm your puppet, I'll obey your commands,

even if I don't want to, you control my movements.

Tell me to steal, I will steal...

Tell me to smile, I will smile.

Tell me to frown, I will frown,

tell me to attack...I will attack.

Attack all my freinds, all those I love,

I'll attack them for you, master...

not because I want to, but you....

you control my strings unloveingly with your stained hands.

Tell me to hide, I will hide.

Tell me to come, I will come,

Tell me to leave, I will leave.

Master....tell me anything, and I will do it.

Not because I want to...but because you control me.

I'll keep my tears inside, and fallow your commands.

But, master, after all is said and done, do me a favor...

Command me to die, and I will die....

Why? Because, Master, even if I'm your puppet...

I have feelings too.....

But then again how could....I? How could a toy have a feelings? That's what I am...like a doll designed and built...my plastic is Kamertion and my batteries is my stolen Magention....how can a toy have feelings....

"My sons will make sure the looks turn to expressions of pain." Taromecika smirked, approaching them, folding his arms. "Don't hold back any, Ryan. Show them what your made of."

"Y...Yes, father." Ryan stammered, lowering his eyes and looking around himself lazily, his eyes widened in surprised as on a pedestal glowing wide an bright sliver energy was the goddess stone. Keith followed his gaze.

"As I said, only the one wearing the talisman and possessing the sword can present them to the goddess."

"............"

"It is beautiful, isn't it?" Saiyoua smiled dreamily, fixing her eyes on it. "And soon it's power, the ultimate power will be in my grasp, but I want my enemies up hear to see...to see the rebirth of the goddesses and summoning of Oisa."

"..............." `Everyone I am sorry...but I have no choice...I'm doing what I was created to do, serve Saiyoua...' he closed his eyes bitterly, holding back intruding tears. He didn't have a choice...no choice...at...all...

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Mimi and Parfait was slammed in the wall by Ryan and Genki, they were just to strong.

"Well, Ryan, looks like the others have been defeated, and we are left with nothing but a pair of little girls to take care of." Clone Genki laughed, crossing his arms.

"Not that they will be much fun, one hit each and they can't stand up."

"We've got to help them!" Carrie exclaimed.

"Yes!" Squall nodded, and turned to Lima. "Lima are you all right?"

"......Do you have to ask?' Lima laughed weakly from the corner were she sat with missing limbs and in a puddle of her own blood. Squall was bleeding badly to, but he had to stand....had to fight!

"Lima...hang on, we will heal you as soon as we can."

"....You need healing yourself....! Heal yourself first Squall."

"AHHHH!!!" Carrie cried, being rammed into the wall, and landing in the pile with their friends.

"CARRIE!!" The wolf and the elf cried out together.

"It's no use...." Carrie groaned. "They are too powerful...."

"He looks just like Genki.....but his soul is black......." Mimi's voice trembled with pain. " Genki would never want to hurt me.....I have to kill him....I can't let him...impersonate him...."

"....This guy is so rotten and mean....how dare he try and pretend to be Ryan..." Parfait swallowed heavily, trying to keep back her tears.

"Awww, how touching." Clone Ryan laughs.

"Shall we finnish them off, now? I'm getting bored." Clone Genki whimpered impatiently.

"I swear, can't you wait a moment for me to gloat! Fine, let's kill `em."

"YAHH!! All right, watch out! KAMAMHA!!!"

"ERUPTION!!"

The ground underneath them exploded and sending them flying up into the air with yelps, while Genki's energy blast struck them. They all fell to the floor in bleeding and bruised heaps.

"We....can....win....if we...all attack together." Mimi pushed herself up to her feet, breathing heavily in agony. "Remember Genki's motto.....work....as....a team....and you'll....always win....he....told that to me....once so....let's attack together with everything we have!"

"Yo...your right, what do we have to loose? We'll die if we don't figure out something to do." Carrie stood next, followed by Squall.

"I will not loose, I have a daughter and a lover to go back to...Lima, take my hand hear..." He helped the Elf up, holding her up on his back, as she was to weak and unable to stand.

"....I will fight....to protect my friends....I'll use every ounce of power in my body to win..." She gasped, her grip tightening around her staff.

Parfait was next, and pushed herself upward, trembling with pain. "I'm only a kid, but I will try my best, even if it kills me!"

"A team attack, isn't that amusing Ryan?" Clone Genki chuckled lightly.

"....Yeah, they don't have enough power inside of them to defeat us! Try your best!" Clone Ryan mocked.

"ROSE PASSION!!!"

"MAGICAL ORBS OF LIGHT!!!"

"TWISTER OF DESTRUCTION!!!"

" TWIN WATER TWISTERS!!"

"CALL OF THE BEASTS!!"

The magic began to mix together in a single energy ball, however the two clones still laughed, it was not powerful enough they found to defeat them, yet.

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Colt's eyes went open wide. `Carrie...she's in trouble...' he close his eyes shimmering an bright purple, the energy left his body and shooted off towards the building.

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Aria closed her eyes, the horn . `Let's do it! SPIRIT ENERGY!!' An silver light glowed around and left her body, joining in with the purple light in the sky.

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The clones gasped in fright as the silver and purple energy joined in with the powerful energy blast, making it ten times if not fifty times more powerful.

"No!!" Clone Genki cried out in fear.

"...It can't be...!!"

The light engulfed them, destroying them both as they cried out in fear and agony. As the light faded, the clones were gone and the group members slumped painfully to the floor, so weakend, and so hurt that they could barely move. Gently, silver magic in the form of shimmering dust fell down on them, causing their bodies to glow with an silver light as it touched them, and slowly their wounds healed and their energy came back.

They slowly pushed themselves off of the ground, Squall carrying Lima on his back sense the magic had not been able to restore her missing cyborg limbs.

"What was that extra power?" Lima asked flabbergasted.

"It was so strong..." Parfait was bewildered.

"Some of that power....I felt it was Colt's but...the big chunk of it...I don't know who it could of came from." Carrie shook her head confused.

".....Genki." Mimi trembled. "The power I felt I was him....but it wasn't at the same time....it was a little different...but....I don't know....could it have been....that little girl? The one he said was very important? Aria..."

"..............." Squall blinked seeing the expression of her face. "Mimi are you all right?"

`....Yes....I am..." Mimi looked away from the Rose sword she held in her hands. "But let's go we have to hurry, I feel something evil is going on."

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"Hey, what are you doing, your not strong enough yet!" Rose exclaimed, catching Lemon as he wavered off his feet.

"I...don't care...I have to...I have to help them!!" Lemon pulled away from her, but stumbled, gripping onto the door frame, as an pain surged threw his chest. Outside he could tell the sky had grown darker with the presents of an horrible evil, the icy chill of darkness blowing against his face.

"You wont do them any good dead." Rose said seriously.

"Oh, and what are you doing up hear, huh?"

"........." Rose sighed. "I was going to go and help. I know I may not be pure of soul...I know my hands are stained with sin but....I....I don't care. I'm strong, I wont let myself be controlled."

"........Don't be stupid. " Lemon shook his head.

"What!? Hey, are you saying I'm weak enough to let someone control me!?"

"It's not someone controlling, it's merely...the darkness, guilt, sin and hate in your own soul that controls you. Saiyoua just merely rises it until it's to hard for you to control....to hard for you to bare. I know...I of all people know."

"..........Do you think they will be ok?"

"That....I don't know...." `Squall....Ryan....everyone....please be alive....'

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Squall was the first one to burst through the door and enter the top floor of the building, and froze, staring in horror at Saiyoua, the others had the same reaction, staring in fright...the darkness in this room was just so....powerful!!

"Oh no! Look over there!" Carrie screamed pointing, drawing their attention to the Goddess stone.

"Ryan!? Where's Ryan!?" Mimi cried panicked.

"Well, well, it's seems like the pawns has arrived, I wanted you hear to witness the rebirth of the goddesses and the awakening of Oisa." Saiyoua smiled. "And I will get my wish, but first, first I would like to see some entertainment, it's been so boring up hear in this building."

"Entertainment!?" Squall hissed. "We aren't in mood to play games!"

"That's right! What have you done with Ryan!?" Lima demanded.

"If you hurt him...!!" Carrie threatened.

Saiyoua snapped her fingers. "Boys, they don't want to corporate, come out hear and teach them a lesson, please."

Two boys clad in black stepped out of the shadows. The group felt there faces drain of color, and their eyes grow wide in disbelief and horror.

"No...." Carrie shook her head.

"It can't be....!" Lima cried.

"How....why.....!?" Mimi stood frozen.

"How...How could he!?" Squall yelled, clenching his fists.

"Ryan!" Parfait screeched in pure shock.

Ryan and Keith stood side by side, both armed, both looking at them with cold and uncaring blue eyes.

"Ryan!? What are you doing!?" Carrie shouted.

"Don't call me that. I am not Ryan." The boy spoke, voice deprived of emotion.

"What...what are you saying....? Of course you are...or...are you another clone?" Lima trailed off.

"A clone...." Ryan laughed bitterly.

"No, not a clone like you faced. A puppet. You see all this time you leader was a doll whoes body was made of Kamertion and whoes soul was made of stolen Magention. The real Ryan died when he was eleven years old." Keith revealed, causing the group to gasp in surpise. "Parfait you knew all along. Tell them."

The child sobbed. "It...it is true, Ryan did die six years ago....I remember...the blood...I remember it all....I just....I just did not want to believe it..."

"But still...Ryan!" Mimi stepped forward. "That is no reason why you should join them! I mean...you are the same Ryan that we traveled with...the same one...how...how could you ever think of fighting against us? Our cause....to save Gaia!" She sobbed.

"Enough!" Ryan extended his hand, a sphere of golden energy blasting forth from his palm, striking her in the chest, sending her skidding across the floor.

"MIMI!!" Carrie and Parfait cried, falling on her knees beside the girl.

With their support, Mimi lifted up her head, to gaze at Ryan threw tearful eyes. "Why are you doing this...?"

"It was what I was created to do, it's that simple."

"You coward!" Carrie cried. "Didn't our cause mean anything to you!? Wasn't what we were fighting for matter to you!?"

".............."

"You say you are fighting to save Gaia, but really you are fighting to destroy it." Keith spoke coldly. "By allowing humans to live the planet will die."

"...No! Why do you say that!? It's not true!" Lima protested.

"It is." Saiyoua cut in, harshly. "Think of the planet as an gentle and helpless butterfly, and then think of the humans as spiders whom pray apon the butterflies, and to save the butterflies we kill the spiders. It is really all that simple. Kill the spiders and save the butterflies. This is the salvation I offer."

"You monster!!" Squall growled, clenching his fists. "We wont let you! We don't want your salvation!"

"But, we, we will stand in your way, Squall." Ryan stepped forward, pointing his sword at the man beast. "Try and stop us, and we will see you as the spider and kill you."

"Ryan..." Squall's voice shook. "HOW COULD YOU HAVE BETRAYED US!?"

".............."

"Big brother!! PLEASE!!" Parfait ran towards him, tears falling from her eyes, voice pleading. As she got close, Ryan could feel tears almost brim in his eyes, but forced them down...no...she wasn't his sister....she was just....another spider.

"PARFAIT!!!" The group exclaimed in shock and horror as Ryan sent a kick to the little girl, sending her slamming against the wall, where she lay gasping for breath, blood trickling down her chin, her eyes closeing as she passed out.

"Ryan!" Mimi cried, turning towards him. "I've never though you would stoop so low..."

"If you...if you are against us now." Carrie said bitterly. "We will have to kill you too."

Keith laughed. "Just you try."

Kill the spiders, to save the butterflies.

The two dark warriors of Saiyoua dashed forward, Keith to the right, Ryan to the left, their swords drawn. Mimi and Carrie on the left, Squall and Lima on the right, forced to quickly try and defend themselves from the double onslaught. Black and blond, the two warriors, two that were at one time were friends to them, now out, thirsting for blood. Their blood.

Death

"MAGICAL ORBS OF LIG---AHHH!!" Carrie screamed as Ryan slashed her with his sword, sending a large cut down her chest to her hip, sending her sprawling on to the floor in a painful heap. His sword shimmered purple in his hands as the dark power grew as it feed off the blood that stained it.

Destruction

"AHH!!" Lima cried as her and Squall was knocked down onto the ground as Keith struck Squall in the chest with an fire spear. Lima whimpered trying to get up, by was failing, patheticly. Her arm and leg that was left were trembling to much with fear to budge.

"Time to get rid of the helpless one." Keith said smugly, approaching her.

"No! Lima!" Squall growled, pulling himself to his feet, but was to late and was forced to watch as Keith sent a blast of fire magic to the girls forehead, sending her blasting, burnt, into the wall. Squall trembled as he saw her laying in a tattered burnt heap, luckly her chest was raising up and down, and her eyes were still open, but she was out of the fight. He turned to Keith with an angry growl.

"How cowardly it is to attack a woman who can't defend herself..."

Keith only smiled back, mockingly. "So what are you going to do about it?"

Is that was `she' calls, salivation?

"Ryan....you were my dear friend, but....Genki fought this hard to try and save Gaia...as did we all....and I refuse to let him die for nothing!"

"..........Mimi, leave."

"No. I wont."

"Then I have no choice."

"And neither do I!" Mimi sobbed, leaping forward, slashing at him with her Rose Sword. Ryan blocked it with his own, with a growl, the girl was surprisingly tuff. He stared into her determent pink eyes, her eye brows were arched in an expression of an anger and strife, but still at the coroners of her eyes he could see tears...He began to weaken his hold on the sword...he couldn't...

The blade glowed purple, and he cried out as more dark power entered into his veins, with an angry cry he brought his sword down on Mimi, breaking threw her defenses and sinking his sword deep into her chest. She fell onto the floor with a yelp, the rose sword cluttering to the ground.

Salvation...

"Mimi! Carrie! Lima! Parfait! All...my friends..." Squall trailed off, looking at the bodies, he was bleeding himself, but had been able to wound Keith some too, but not nearly as much.

"The man-beast is putting up quite a fight, Ryan! Why not you come over hear and help, puppet? Eh?"

"...Sure..." Ryan walked over, standing by Keith's side. Squall looked away from his sword which dripped with blood....it was a cruel reminder of the faith he had resigned his friends to.

"Ryan why are you doing this?"

"I told you, it was what I was created to do."

Squall stared intensely into his eyes, growling. "Then why? Why accept it now? Why not from the beginning...?"

"............"

"Let's finish him off, shall we, puppet."

Ryan nodded. "Yes."

Salvation...

Squall gasped, and pathetically tried to defend himself as the two boys crisscrossed each other, dashing towards him, one sword shimmering black, the other purple. Both Boy's rushed passed him, the swords slashing him across the chest in almost an X shape. The two boys put their swords back into the sheaths at the same time as Squall fell to the floor face down.

People has many different ways of thinking.

"Ryan." Taromecika spoke, almost with pride. "Now has come the time to present the goddess stone, let these spiders watch as their struggle comes to an end.

"Yes father...." Ryan was handed the talisman and winged sword, he stared at them for a moment, hearing his friends, pleading to him not to do it, but he didn't have choice, what about that didn't they understand?

He began to slip the talisman over his neck `please don't....don't let me be able to put it on...please...' his hopes were crushed over as it slipped on with ease, and he held the sword with other any trouble. There was a quick flash of black light, and he looked down, surprised, seeing that the talisman had become onyx instead of gold and the ivory wings of the sword had turned into black diamond.

Saiyoua smiled widely. `The light is being entirely wiped out....'

"NO!! STOP!!" His friends shouted as Ryan picked the goddess stone up in his hands, it shimmered brightly, and he began to walk forward, towards Saiyoua, as though in a trance, he couldn't stop himself, his legs felt as though they had no control of their own....no...of course not, his strings were being pulled.

No!!

Forgive me...

Ryan placed the stone into Saiyoua's hands the world was engulfed in a black light.

Kill the spiders, to save the butterflies.

It's Rational, until you realize that by striving for it,

You become a spider yourself.