A/N: Well, here it is, the final chapter of As a Sister Loves Her Brother. Sorry about the late update. I had a choir concert yesterday followed by some shakes at a nearby restaurant.
Anyway, enjoy the last chapter of AaSLHB!
Lloyd grunted as Keres threw him against the ground. The Master of Spirits laughed evilly. "How dense can one person be?" she asked, sarcastically. "I told you to just quit it. You'll never beat me. You let feelings cloud your decisions. It won't work in the long run. You need to know logic. Brainpower." "We… do know…" Kai started before fainting. "If you did know it," Keres continued, "you wouldn't have been so senseless as to challenge me."
"Are you certain this will work?" Zane asked. "I mean, from what you've told me, Nya and Jay, the techies of the group, couldn't bring me back online." "I know it'll work," Alicia replied. "Have faith, brother." Zane smiled, then started grunting in pain as the Wind Ninja started typing. Alicia paused what she was doing and glanced over at the Ice Ninja.
"It's working," he told her. "Don't stop. Not until I am not a spirit." Alicia nodded and resumed typing, trying to ignore Zane's grunts of pain. Eventually, the noise ceased and she turned around to find nothing. "Zane?" she called. "Brother?!"
"I am here, sister."
Alicia whipped around to find Zane standing behind her. Only, he wasn't a spirit anymore. "Zane," Alicia gasped. "You- you're back!" She lunged in to hug the nindroid, if only to prove to herself that he truly was back. Zane returned the embrace.
"Let us go," he stated when the two had broken apart. "Keres is not going to defeat herself."
Keres laughed as the two ninja left standing fell. "You'll never… get away… with this," the Water Ninja told her. "Oh, but Nya," she replied, coming in close. "I already have." Keres raised the sword she stole from Kai, planning to make this the final blow. Nya closed her eyes, bracing for it, but it never came.
Confused, she opened her eyes to see Alicia and Keres in what appeared to be a catfight, and Keres was winning. But Alicia had locked herself up in her room, saying that only a force from the FSM himself could make her leave those four walls. Nya could only wonder why she was here, now.
Alicia smirked before throwing Keres off of her. Before anyone could think, the Master of Spirits was trapped in a block of ice. Nya's mind seemed to stop working. Ice?! Ice was Zane's element, and he was gone. Right? They had seen him killed. Where was the logic?
"You thought you won," Alicia stated coming in out of nowhere. "You thought that love made you weak. You thought it made you lesser than someone who does not know love. Well, that was your biggest mistake." As she started talking, Zane appeared at her side. "We stand as one," he said. "Your first mistake was thinking that we would give up. Your second mistake was underestimating the power we wield, by which we stand. This power can be accessible by anyone, but only a select few choose to harness it. We met by fate. It was the will of the Cloud Kingdom that we met. Becoming friends was inevitable. We could not do anything alone, so we bonded. Becoming family, however, was our choice. We wield a power stronger than you could ever imagine: the power of love."
Alicia nodded at Zane's monologue. "As a sister loves her brother, I love Zane," she added. "I wouldn't have made it through much had he not been at my side. If there's one thing I learned from all this, it's that I leaned on Zane quite a bit. It was only by our trust in each other that we pulled through, but I'm happy we did."
Zane pulled Alicia close. "You told us to give up," he stated. "Were you aware that you might hear that phrase one day, directed at you? Whether or not you did, give up now, and no one gets hurt."
Keres gritted her teeth. "You can't tell me what to do!" she screamed. Alicia picked her up using the wind and threw her against the building. "You may have the upper hand when you have us separated…" she started. "But together, you do not stand a chance," Zane finished.
Keres stood and lunged at the two, who avoided her predictable attack easily. "Alicia, Wind, now," Zane told her. "Wind!" she yelled, letting it head in all directions. "Ice!" Zane yelled immediately after, letting his Element fly everywhere through the wind. Alicia realized immediately what they were doing: creating a blizzard to hide where they were. After a minor scuffle, Zane had Keres pinned while Alicia willed the winds to die down.
The police finally managed to get vengestone chains on Keres before dragging her off. The other ninja had woken up at this point, all of them looking insanely confused.
"Well, you can't say it wasn't interesting," Jay told them at dinner that night. "I'm just amazed that no one truly 'died.'" Nya replied. "The closest we got was Zane, and even then…" "What I want to know is how a nindroid could have a spirit," Kai interrupted. "Yeah," Lloyd agreed. "How can a nindroid have a spirit?" "Truthfully, I am wondering that myself," Zane answered. "I'm just glad it's over." Everyone nodded in agreement.
"What now?" Alicia asked. "Only the future, Alicia," Cole replied with a wink. "Only the future."
A/N: Well that was fun.
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Review or I'm not posting the sequel!
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