Cearbhail: Wow, I have a lot going on in this chapter. I guess I need to start from the beginning, well.. you'll see anyway.
-Presea- -
I awoke back at the room with nothing wrong with me. Zelos smiled down at me and so was Emil. I started calculating questions in my head. It appeared that I didn't need to question anything. Zelos said, "Why, hello, cutie. Did you enjoy your nap?"
I sat up and looked at my hands. Was the whole thing a weird dream? I rose from my bed and looked around. My room still held the burn scar from where Genis busted down my door to find me. So, no…it wasn't a dream, but this could not be reality either. Dazed, I looked over at Zelos and Emil; both of them grinning at me like idiots.
I said, "What happened?"
Zelos rubbed his nose and said, "Well...it started like this."
-Zelos- - (one hour ago)
I paced back and forth outside Presea's house. With all the knocked out ninjas tied up, I sent Emil back to bring Sheena to come down here and collect them. By the way that the house was destroyed, the trees were knocked down, and everyone looked like a rhino rammed them; I guessed this was the work of Presea.
I tilted down to the person who looked the most damaged. I think Presea used this person for interrogations, so I hoped I could get a few answers from him. I bent down and started tapping him on the head with my short sword.
His eyes opened up for a second before he glanced up at me. He focused for a second and said, "Wait a second! You're…you're…"
I pointed at myself and flashed him my beautiful white dazzling teeth. "Why yes, I am the famous ladies' man, Zelos Wilder."
He stopped and said, "Oh...I guess."
I grabbed him by his collar and said, "Now tell me…did a pretty girl with pick hair and ponytails come through here?"
He nodded and said, "Yes. We were sent here by Lord Yggdrasill to collect her."
I pulled on him and said, "And…where did she go?"
He said, "She went to Hima to find her friend at the top of the mountain. I bet she's captured by now."
I shook him and said, "If you want to live; I suggest you tell me where they were sending her."
He looked scared for his life. There was no way he was from Mizuho. He said, "They were keeping her hidden in Hima. The place was abandoned so they thought it would be easy. Not to mention, the elf would think that they would send her halfway across the world while she would just be inches away from him the whole time. I think Yggdrasill is just trying to get him to kill her himself through an epic spell, I don't know I'm just a henchman!" He started crying.
I pushed him back. Man, for a henchman, he knew a lot of stuff. He just lied there, crying his eyes out. "I wish I knew more, but I only heard them talking after they gave me my orders! I'm just not important."
I sighed and said, "Just stay here until…" Emil and Sheena stepped out of the large forming black mist. Sheena looked down at the crying ninja.
She said, "What did you do?"
I shrugged and said, "I don't know. He just figured out that he's just a henchman and he started crying,"
"I'm just a henchman!"
"SHUT UP!" All three of us yelled.
I looked at Emil and said, "Ok, Emil. I need to go to Hima and save our cutie. Are you coming?"
He nodded.
I grabbed onto his shoulder and I felt darkness wrap over me. The darkness lifted and we found ourselves at Hima. We quickly searched the place and found that the inn had its door busted in. I grabbed my sword, Emil grabbed his, and we charged in.
There, in the corner, with a little note on her forehead, was Presea. She was knocked out cold. A note? Wasn't this my game? I walked up to the note and looked at it.
Dear intruders. You only have time for one thing. You can either escape the mountain before it comes crawling down and let your elf friend die…or you can save your elf friend and get killed yourselves. The choice is yours, Zelos. I've been after you this whole time, you traitor!
So, that's what this was about. Mithos was getting his revenge on a turncoat. I betrayed everyone once for them and then I turned around and betrayed him for them. I was a double-turncoat. Now, he wanted me to die just like all traitors did. This game of mine had gone on too long. I looked at Emil and said, "Emil, get her out of here. I'm finishing this."
Of course, that's when Presea started opening her eyes and he decided to just send all of us back before she tried to save Genis as well.
-Presea- -
So, that was the whole story. I couldn't believe that Zelos went through all that to save me and Genis. But, he was right. I did want to go back and save Genis. He wouldn't stop me either. I guess he saw the determination on my face and said, "Emil, zap me." I ran up to them and got to Emil's hand first.
I felt the cold energy of darkness consume me. I was comfortable with the feeling of darkness. It felt like my soul while I was under the control of the cruxis crystal. I could feel light in there now and right now, I needed that light to find Genis.
-Genis- -
Here I was. I was beaten, exhausted, couldn't lift a finger, and tears were streaming down my face. I couldn't move, I could barely breathe, and I was just done with this. My opponent looked fresh, untouched. He looked like he watched me behind a crystal ball while I fought each step of the way to get my butt up here.
He paced around me, not doing anything. I guess he was waiting for me to do something. I didn't move. I didn't know what would happen if I did get back up.
"Did you not hear me the first time? Get up!"
He grabbed me by my hair and pulled me up. I screamed out in pain as he did it too. He pulled me onto my feet and said, "Well, Genis?"
I looked at him through my one good eye. The other eye seemed to have swollen up. I said, "Who are you?"
He looked shocked…if I could say that since he wore a big mask on. He said, "I am Mithos Yggdrasill. You don't remember me?" He said right before he blasted me back.
I fell and tumbled a few feet before I rolled myself onto my knees. Yeah, I knew Mithos. He and I were friends. This was not my friend. This was not Mithos. I pointed at him and said, "Do not mock his memory like that! You are not Mithos!" I screamed to the heavens.
He reached up for his mask and removed it. Underneath it, I could plainly see…it was Mithos. He cast the mask aside and said, "You, Genis. I gave you a chance to join me. We could have ended half-elf discrimination. Instead, you sided with the humans! You betrayed your own kind. I am here to make you regret that decision. Falling in love with a human…and a Cruxis experiment too! How low can you sink before you…you…you disgust me. I was wrong about you, Genis."
He flashed up to me and I felt his knee meet my face. I'm not sure what happened next because three other things happened to my body. I couldn't even begin to describe the pain. Well, pain wasn't the right word. Numbness would be the word now. I felt numb. And somehow, that numbness made it ok for me to say this: "I pray to the heavens above and to the underworld below. I have a mighty enemy and my spirit is low. Lend me thy strength and thy fury unknown. Summon the spirit of: Unholy Crossbow!"
I said it just at the right time. A giant incantation circle formed around my body, which Mithos had just grabbed me by my shirt and lifted me up off the ground. The skies darkened and he looked down at me and said, "What spell did you just cast?"
I smiled down at him with my broken lip and swollen eye. I said, "Divine justice: Unholy Crossbow." He looked up and saw the skies brighten up with lightning every few seconds. He looked down at me.
The ground shook. I looked up at the sky to see seven arcs of lightning flash out and collect into a single massive wad of lightning that landed right on us. The pain was searing but since I asked for it, I received it. I felt every cell in my body cry out and I felt every hair on my head singe. I didn't know what happened after that. I was lying on the ground, unable to see, or hear, or fell anything at all. I wasn't sure how long I lied there. It felt like this was the place where I was going to die.
Finally, I started gaining the ability to see dark shadows. Mithos lied on the ground as well, unmoving. I sighed. At least I killed Mithos. I started to relax but I felt something lift me up. It was Lord Lemurus. He said, "Lord Yggdrasill was my last hope at becoming an angel. You will pay for this."
He began to drag me. I knew that I should have fought back but I was done. There was no more life in my hands. He held me up and I felt no more ground underneath my feet. I glanced down and even in my defeated body, I could still muster up enough fear to know that I was only a second away from falling all the way back down the mountain. "This is how Yggdrasill wanted you to die. Beaten, defeated, and then thrown down this mountain. It's sad though, he wanted you to see your girl die first."
"Put Genis down!" I heard that soft voice. I glanced over to my right and even through my blood-filled eye; I could tell that Presea had just walked up the mountain.
My holder said, "That was a very unfortunate choice of words." His fingers let go of my collar and I felt the wind take me.
Cearbhail: Oh man! Dont' you just hate cliffhangers? Seriously, next thing you know, she'll dive off the mountain, dive down to him and they'll share a kiss right before they're slaughered against the hard ground! Oops... I shouldn't have said that... I should not have said that (Thank you, Hagrid.) Anyway, bet you can't wait to see how it ends, or begins.
