Chapter One...
Lion's Edge leaped from building to building. Another day, another fight with the Darksides. He got the order to join them about ten minutes ago. He stayed, looking up at the sky for about seven more. It was the anniversary of the war that raged through because of the invading Azazel.
"Hey, if that hedgehog can get mopey when the anniversary of his parents' death comes around, why can't I get some time?" Edge murmured.
He came to a halt at the museum as he saw a few members of the FAF-the recently-Digivolved ChaosMagemon, Hikari Ino, Airnaruto, Ranger, TSS, the Fictor Brothers, Shadow-DJ, Mora Nara, and Kitten Hachi-chan. The group seemed to be involved in a fight with a band of animated skeletons, carrying swords and shields. Edge lunged down next to TL and the two began fighting back-to-back.
"So, what's the situation?" Edge asked.
"Well, Boss Wiz thinks that it has to do with Drake getting his hands on the Book of the Dead for an immortal army." the Fictorian said before promptly smashing a skeleton.
"Unfortunately, immortal does not mean invincible." Dimensiondude said, slamming his tail into another one.
"Unfortunately?" Lunatic asked, kicking a skeleton before slamming one with his shoulder, "I think you mean for THEM."
Kitty was surrounded by skeleton soldiers. She thrust out her hands and they all froze solid before shattering.
"It's okay as long as they're already dead." She said, timidly.
DJ swung his scythe around, slashing through the skeletons before Mora grabbed one before splitting it in half with his vectors.
"AWESOME!" Mora grinned, high-fiving his friend.
Hikari and CM were fighting back-to-back, CM blasting them with his scepter as Hikari slashed at them with her silver sword, Twinsegia. CM then jumped into the air as Hikari rolled out of the way, using waterbending to grab a few and break them apart before CM smashed through them with his scepter.
"Not exactly our best date, but I think it'll do." CM smiled, nodding at his girlfriend.
"Yes, it will, Sempai-kun." Hikari replied.
"If you two are finished giving idle banter..." TSS said as he casually stepped through the skeleton men, shooting them through the heads, "I've found the person abusing the Book's power."
"Lemme guess, it's our favorite Darkside?" CM asked.
"No, it's The Face." TSS replied, loading a fresh clip into his pistol before firing a round into a skeleton before it exploded.
"Great, just what we need." Lunatic growled, leaping from wall-to-wall as he slashed through the skeletons with his UFO Fang Sword, "A visit from THAT psycho."
"The Face, eh?" Edge growled as he dodged another strike and bolted for the entrance. "About time I finally got another shot at his ugly mug!" He held up his hand as lightning began crackling around his hand. He looked around before walking through the exhibits. He heard a noise and wheeled around to see that the T-Rex skeleton was moving and began walking towards him. Sitting atop him was the Anti-Author known as The Face.
"Like my steed, Leo?" he asked, a maniacal look on his face, "HI-HO, FOSSIL! MURDEEEEER!"
The fossilized dinosaur charged at Edge, who dodged the strike with a sudden fierce bound. Bursting into a sprint, he swiftly closed the distance and quickly lunged at the Anti-Author, punching him in the jaw and knocking him off. "Fulguris!" He then thrust out his hands and sent a burst of electricity at him. While writhing as a result, Face dropped a black volume. Edge ran, grabbed it, and placed a foot on The Face's cheek to pin him to the ground. "Boot to da face!" he whooped.
"Well, THIS seems oddly cliche for you..." he said with a smirk.
"Eh, we all have our off days… now shut up, I'm reading… wow, never thought I'd be saying THAT today." Edge simply said before reading aloud, "Mortuus redire. Benedicite spiritus, et in c. Requiem et pacem."
A burst of dark wind erupted from the pages of the book, washing over his face, sending his mane wildly flapping in the fierce gust; bangs getting in the way of his vision. He looked around with some strain and saw the fossil fall apart. Outside, the skeleton soldiers vanished.
"Well, that was easy." TL shrugged.
Back inside, Edge dragged The Face to his feet, the Anti-Author still snickering.
"What's so funny, Chuckles?" Edge asked.
"Your whole hero thing." Face replied, "You spend so much time trying to save the day, but you know what the punchline is? No matter how hard you try, you can't save everyone...like the time I killed half of New York or those millions you just couldn't save! What happened to 'em again, Cubbie? I tend to forget… so many disasters listed, y'know, from that incident alone." The Face grinned as he began to reflect. Here came his favorite part… watching the hero squirm as his worst memories came to light. "A few thousand burned in the firestorm of the first day, right? A couple hundred thousand more or so in earthquakes… Men, women, children, babies, pets… I can't imagine what life must be like for you, waking up every day, with all that blood staining your hands…wait, no, I sort of can; I've done it too…"
That caused Edge to tighten his grip on Face, who just began laughing more, "OH, IT SEEMS I HIT A NERVE! I'm very good at that, y'know!"
Afterwards, an armored car drove up to the museum to drag away The Face, who was in a straight-jacket.
"Taking bets now, how long before he's broken out?" TSS asked.
"I give him a week." CM said.
"Five days." DJ stated.
"Two days." Mora said.
"Twenty-six hours." Lunatic said. He then saw Edge walking out, looking sulky, "Hey, Edge, why the long face?"
"None of your business." Edge stated, walking away.
"If it was something Face said, just know that he was just trying to psych you out." Lunatic said, "He's a psycho, it's what he does."
"It's working then." Edge simply said.
"He taunted you about that war." TSS stated as he walked over.
"How'd you find out?" Edge asked. The SWAT-dressed vampire glared at the leonine, who shrank back and said, "Okay, stupid question."
"It's true, you can't save everyone. You fumbled and many died." TSS stated, "Likely, you will make more costly mistakes."
"If this is a pep talk, skip to the peppy part." Lunatic said.
"Which means the times you do succeed will be the more meaningful." TSS concluded, "You just need to accept that."
Edge simply grunted as he ran off.
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A TLSoulDude fanfiction...
Edited by Wildheart-Edge and Hikari Ino...
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