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Me: Yep...after all this work...7k words of the final chapter! Without further ado...THE FINAL CHAPTER!

Chapter 10: Part 2, Fallen Purple Magician

"El...sword?" I stood there fazed as if I'm locked in an eternal time loop of Elsword's last words. He...admitted to murdering Raven and Rena in cold blood. Even after that...he still believes in trying to enjoy life peacefully...with me. That last thing with killing everyone else here...is Elsa really serious that Elsword intends to do just that? I couldn't even give him a proper answer before that...thing swallowed him whole.

I wiped my eyes devoid of tears and silently paid heed to Elsa, who explained the situation to the nervous and horrified couple. "W-What the hell?" Chung commented with wide eyes, going in front of Eve with his Destroyer hung in front of him. "Eve do you know what's happening?"

"I'm sorry Chung, but I cannot identify any kind of data coming from within the darkness engulfing Elsword." Eve wistfully calculated, showering more signs of hopelessness than her lover. "The only knowledgeable information I scanned is how immensely powerful his dark transformation will be once he finishes."

"It's...the Dark El." Elsa started to explain, remembering what Berthe told her all those years ago.

"What?!" Eve exclaimed, shocked despite maintaining her poker face. "But we purified the last of it with Allegro from the Amethyst in the Underground Chapel." I remember that too, we took the last of the purple crystal and brought it back to a cleansed El thanks to the Feita alchemist.

"I-I don't know where he's getting it but..." Elsa trailed off, prompting Eve to snap her back to reality. "...this power definitely belongs to the Dark El."

"Tch, just great." Chung muttered, shooting any stray lines of darkness with the Silver Shooter in his free hand. "Anyone got any ideas on how to defeat Elsword now?" The Deadly Chaser glanced back at the rest of us and shouted his question.

Elsa faced the two with a determined expression. "Aisha and I thought up one, isn't that right?"

"H-Huh?" I snapped out of my silent trance and brought my attention back to the Lord Knight.

"The Plan, Aisha." She repeated. "Do you still remember it? Or should I have to go by it again with these two?"

"No." I answered, giving myself a light slap to focus on reality right now. "Kill Elsword swiftly in one fell swoop. Correct Elsa?"

"Correct." Elsa nodded.

"So make him die a painless death?!" Chung bared his teeth, still putting up his Destroyer in protection. "HE KILLED OUR FRIENDS! AND FROM THE LOOK OF HIS SWORD, HE TOOK HIS SWEET TIME MURDERING THEM!" He lashed out at her. No wonder he's pissed off, first having his father being corrupted by demons and now two of his close friends killed by Elsword, the team leader and role model...

...Or what he was supposed to be anyway. I can understand his position, but being that young an age and experience all this trauma without any control can make a self-proclaimed Guardian filled with anguish.

"Chung..." Eve turned his attention back at the deathly purple aura radiating and covering Elsword whole. "Now is not the time for emotions to get in the way. We will mourn them later once we have accomplished our task." It seemed fitting, I thought, that the Nasod who discarded her emotions calmed down her loved one and think things logically.

"You're right Eve." He sighed and calmed himself. Chung glanced at Elsa once more before bringing his attention back to the glowing aura of darkness. "So why do you want to kill Elsword quickly? Is it because he's your younger brother?" The Deadly Chaser glared at her.

I cringed when hearing that. Hitting a soft spot on the Lord Knight just because she wants her sibling to have a painless death. "Ch-Chung!" I started with him. "Be a little considerate of Elsa's feel-"

"That's alright, I do wish for his death to be a painless one." Elsa interrupted me.

"Even after all he's done..." Our Gunslinger still couldn't let go of the fact that his kill-happy "friend" is getting off the hook that easily.

"If we opt to kill him slowly, he can still struggle and take one of us down with him." She tried her best to reason with Chung. "However if we kill him quickly, everyone comes out of this alive. Whether he dies a satisfying death enough for you to enjoy doesn't matter Chung. What does is that no one else gets killed merely for the sake of your petty revenge." Elsa finished explaining. In turn the Deadly Chaser grunted angrily and reluctantly followed her plan along with the Battle Seraph, Eve.

"Alright fine, but if anyone asks about the disappearances of them," The Deadly Chaser picked one of his "Pikachu like" ears with a free hand and continued, "We'll say they weren't used to being renowned heroes and traveled to a remote location in order for the fame to die off and live normal lives, got it?"

"You come up with that on the spot?" I joked, at the one time I shouldn't be.

"Yeah, well got it?" He became impatient, to which the three of us nod our heads in agreement.

"Elsword now visible within the darkness aura." Eve monotonously spoke, prompting the rest of us to pay attention to where the corrupted Rune Slayer now stood.

She was right. The blob of darkness that once surrounded Elsword was gone, instead outlining themselves around him in a dark purplish aura. It's as if some puppeteer out there took control of him and is now manipulating their creation. When his eyes opened, that cue told me this is not the same Rune Slayer I spoke to a few minutes ago.

Instead of the blazing crimson eyes present even in that murderous look of his only slanted blood red eyes remained, staring us down cold and ruthless as ice. His hairstyle remained, except the ends of his hair gradually colored from red to pitch black. Finally he gave a sly grin at us to tell that not only is he insane, he's fully aware of it too.

The air dirtied a little bit with the smell of flames, as this Elsword summoned a flaming sword identical to the one he's wielding one right now and positioned himself into a fighting stance. We all flinched at this, even Elsa. Can the Dark El really give a person such tremendous power? Not only did it allow the crimson boy in front of us to dual wield instantaneously but, according to Eve, the chances of succeeding with no casualties were, in her words, "less than 1%".

"Thanks for finally letting me in on the action Elsword!" The thing inside Elsword sent chills down our spines with it's disturbingly and menacing voice unfit even for the "love crazed" boy whose body they intruded. "Time to show you kiddies straight to Hell! With one exception of course." It winked at our direction. We all knew who he was aiming at. This so-called exception he's letting go free. This person who, despite this immense power, is willing to carry out Elsword's intentions as he would.

That exception...is me.

"Who the hell are you!?" Chung yelled the question all of us were thinking straight at the being in front of us.

"Me? Tch you humans, always questioning everything you don't yet know." It mocked the Deadly Chaser with a bored expression on it's face, grinning as he continued on. "My name is Infinity Sword, however that isn't very appropriate now that I'm in a Rune Slayer's body now is it? Why don't you call me Infinity Slayer instead?"

"So a monster inside Elsword huh?" The Deadly Chaser took out one of his Silver Shooters and reloaded his Destroyer. "We couldn't let Elsword roam free, let alone you. Putting you out of the way isn't as satisfying as that crimson Knight, but this should be a viable substitute instead." Chung stared the self-proclaimed "Infinity Slayer" with a grin.

"Moby, Reby. Prepare for Battle Mode." Eve called upon her black and white drones, who appeared by her side ready to fight for their queen.

"Aisha!" Once again I had to be snapped back by Elsa.

"O-Oh right! Angkor, I summon thee!" As she unsheathed her sword I called upon the devilish bat who shared a contract with me by my side, resting upon my shoulder in a chibi-like expression on it's face.

"A musing little rebellion you bunch have there." Infinity chuckled then put on it's most demented grin yet. "It's too bad that all of you who die will go straight to Hell!"

A second later lightning flashed and thunder roared outside, reminding us of the inclement weather, and Infinity charged straight at us in an inhumane speed. What happens now is how we'll outsmart him and work together as a team once more. All I hope is that after this, no one besides that "Infinity Slayer" die.

"Magic Accelerator!" While charging up my mana I buffed the Magic Attack of my teammates and commanded Angkor to follow their charge at Infinity. Aiming carefully with his Silver Shooter, our Deadly Chaser shot Infinity through the leg hindering his movement. Taking advantage of this, Angkor sped up its flight and bit repeatedly at the crimson head as he knelt on one knee motionless. Before the other two girls could get any closer to damaging him, Infinity slowly raised his hand to effortlessly swat away the biting bat on his head, causing it to disappear back into my staff, and summoned eight flame swords above him pointing directly at the four of us, specifically Chung and Eve near the front.

"Sword Fall!" At his chilling command the swords engulfed in flames fell from the sky and fell in a straight path in front of him.

"Eve!" Chung, noticing the Battle Seraph's lack of reflexes to command her drones to do so, propelled towards his lover's direction using a blast from his Destroyer to boost himself. He skidded beside her and shouldered away the incoming objects with multiple swings of his cannon as the Nasod taps into the "Induction Mode" of her Spectrum and aids the Deadly Chaser by shooting down the rest of the swords on their path with homing Particle Rays. "Are you all right?" He asked her, concerned for her safety while reloading the consumed cannonball.

"Yes, I am fine." The Battle Seraph reassured him. "This is not a skill our Rune Slayer ever demonstrated before. I suggest we battle him with caution, we have no idea what other tricks he has up his sleeve." Eve concluded, raising her voice in order to fill me and Elsa in on her words.

"Got it!" It took several seconds for Elsa to respond as she sidestepped through the flames on the ground left by Infinity's previous attack and swung her sword to a power struggle with his dark-imbued and steel one, Elsword's blade.

"Oh my?" Despite using one arm to power his sword Infinity belittled Elsa, who powered her sword with both arms, as the two are locked in an even clash. "Did you forget I have another blade?" He moved his left arm and swung the flaming sword he conjured up at the Lord Knight's side.

"Phantom Breathing!" Gathering enough mana I teleported quickly to Elsa, who managed to kick herself off of Infinity through the chest right as the sword seared just through her clothes, and summoned Angkor once again. This time his gaping mouth poured upon a continuous supply of draining dark energy trapping the Infinity Slayer inside.

"Thanks for that Aisha." Elsa thanked me, grateful that her skin was saved from suffering serious burns.

"No problem!" I accepted her thanks as Eve and Chung regrouped with us a few feet away from the Phantom Breathing suffocating Infinity, as I can conclude hearing his screams from within.

SLASH! To our astonishment a flaming sword from within the prison of darkness popped out and sliced Angkor in half, uttering a screech from the poor bat and once again returning back inside my staff. As the dark-imbued prison faded away like a candle being blown out, we watched in horror about the state of Infinity after the attack. An even more poignant aura of darkness surrounded him as he licked his lips and cackled. Then it hit me, that wasn't screams of pain or agony I heard inside that prison.

They were screams of joy and insanity!

"Tasty." Infinity broke the silence after licking his lips clean of the darkness. "Thanks for the meal Aisha, no wonder Elsword fell for you." It faced us and plastered an unnerving grin on its face aimed directly at me. Just the looks of it sent chills down my spine.

"Dammit why didn't I think of that before!" I muttered to myself and gritted my teeth, incomprehensible for anyone of them to understand. If this Infinity Slayer person is powered by the Dark El, then Darkness fuels its power not make it worse. Guess I'm at a major disadvantage, being a magician specializing in dark magic.

"...rsh...ser..." I barely heard the monster's next attack, what I did hear right after are my friends yelling at me to get out of the way after they dodged it.

TUG! "Huh?" Suddenly I felt a sting on my abdomen as I was jerked towards Infinity. Before I could react, he already held a firm grip on me and whispered in my ear.

"I'm gonna ask you this once. Why don't you just surrender yourself and rule alongside me in a new age of Elrios my dear Void Princess?" He grinned upon asking, as if he would be satisfied regardless of my answer. Though asking me to rule with him...is this still Infinity Slayer or is it Elsword offering me this? Either way I still wouldn't join him, I have a moral code that I uphold unlike what our former leader just committed.

"Flame Circle!" I declined him with a circle of fireballs gathering around me, rotating themselves through him...or so I thought.

Instead he merely absorbed the flames with the burning sword wielded by his left arm. "So I guess that's a no then!" He kicked me aside, deflecting several bullets by Chung's Silver Shooters to "let Aisha go!", and pulled another trick out of his sleeve. "Into the timeout circle for you little magician, Maelstrom Rage!" Infinity summoned another flaming sword and thrusts it at me forming a variation of my Binding Circle...except burning blades surrounded me on all sides aiming to strike.

"AISHA!" My friends called out to me in distress before being forced to deal with the possessed crimson boy again. I uttered a spell and summoned a Mana Shield to protect myself at the last second. Despite the protection itself taking most of the damage the pain was enough to have me constantly flinch and yelp in pain, though no burns were afflicted. I can't even keep my eyes open long enough to watch the fight between those four because of the power of this attack.

Even with this shield protecting me, is this new Elsword really that strong? Is he really...unbeatable? No! I mustn't think that! We've lived through bleaker odds before, no way are we giving up now! Just..as soon as the pain goes away...

Thanks to some God from above the attack only lasted a few seconds and I was on my feet again. I recovering my bearings and faced the rest of the combatants several meters away. To my horror, Infinity is power rushing Eve with successful results.

BZZT! CRZZT! As much as Elsa and Chung interfered, their efforts were in vain as Infinity continued his dominance over the Battle Seraph. "MOBY! REBY!" Eve called out to her drones, the black one sliced open and the white exploding with a strike of the flaming sword. Both of her servants sliced to bits like scrap metal yet no tears flowed out of the Nasod. Instead Eve stumbled a step backwards, giving Infinity the chance to pierce through her chest.

During that curb-stomp battle I teleported as much as my mana allowed me to in order to reach to the rest of them in time. "EVE!" I shouted in vain, only able to regroup with the rest of them when metal pierced through metal.

...Or so I thought.

Instead of hearing the sound of slicing metal and motor just like Eve's two servants, gushing blood filled in its place. Blonde hair and cerulean eyes defiantly stood their gaze against blood red eyes.

"GWAH!" Chung spat out blood from taking the blow, removing his heavy armor on the way to protect Eve. "Guess...I couldn't do much...with all that armor...slowing me down." He uttered his apologies to his gravely distressed girlfriend.

"CHUNG!" Eve reached out to him, in a more desperate tone than for her drones. As she witnessed his heroic sacrifice, I glanced him desperately struggling to move his Silver Shooters. Even nearing his final moments the Deadly Chaser's determined eyes burnt strong as he silently begged for his arms to move and shoot his killer point blank, unfortunately this only amused the latter.

"Heh, how foolish!" Infinity Slayer smiled with the look of insanity, mocking the Deadly Chaser. "Even when trying to protect your girl you still can't muster the strength to shoot me. What a pitiful couple." Right after Chung uttered "goodbye" to Eve, Infinity lifted him up further into the air. Firming his grip on the flame sword on his other hand, the Infinity Slayer prepared to- oh no. He wouldn't!

"NO!" Eve and I yelled vainly in unison while Elsa watched with bangs covering her eyes. SLASH! RIIIP! Using the burning blade Infinity sliced Chung into two from his head to his crotch, blood pouring over his and Eve's faces. I...I couldn't even stand properly after witnessing that, only falling to my knees and watching from the sidelines in despair. Why can't I react at times like this!? Even though that's a different person in front of me, the look of murderous intent on his face is terrifyingly similar to Elsword when we stormed the Halls of Water and finished off the rest of the demons. I still can't get over a person's death, even when informed of Raven and Rena's demise and when I signed the contract.

Nothing's stopping me from looking away yet I couldn't help myself to. The horrifying image of the split Chung with blood, intestines, and even bones spilling out of him splattering all over the floor. SPLAT! DRIP! DRIP! The crimson murderer licked blood from his lips, enjoying the flavor much to our horror, and retracted both of his blades from the torn corpse. The cream skinned blonde gunslinger now a rotten deathly pale corpse sitting on top of the intestine and bone hill covered in blood.

"Chung...Chung..." Eve couldn't calculate what happened, or rather outright refused to, as she scrambled to the corpse desperate to put him back together and hear his voice again.

"Eve...I..." Even when facing a cold-blooded murderer, it amazed me and drove me to tears that the Battle Seraph is on the verge of breaking down herself as she vainly continues to shake half of the Deadly Chaser with an obviously fake smile.

"It's too bad." Infinity lowered himself at the Nasod's eye level, smirking while smearing more blood on his face and licking the excess amount. "Try all you want, you can't deny the fact that he's dead and I killed him."

"Please..." Eve trailed off and couldn't hold in any longer, crying her demolished heart out after uttering that phrase. The dark crimson teen chuckled softly to himself, feeling superiority over his victim and the absolute saddening state of his lover. I struggled and forced myself up to my legs slowly, gaining no help or support from Elsa who merely stood and watched right beside me. Moments passed until Eve finally finished her bubble of thought, staring pitifully at Infinity as tears rolled mercilessly down her cheeks. "...Kill me."

"W...What?!" Now it's my turn to mutter to myself, was their love so strong they couldn't move through life without each other? Was this...what Elsword felt during our entire journey before snapping and committing terrible acts, keeping it bottled up inside of him? That wasn't important now, what is is the Battle Seraph throwing her life away.

"Oh? So you really love him that much huh?" As heart-warming that may sound, Infinity's chilling and mocking tone said otherwise. "You really sure huh? It's much more satisfying if you beg for your life to be spared anyway." His blood red eyes glistened and he donned a demented grin.

"EVE!" I wiped my tears quickly and attempted to reason with her out of dying meaninglessly. "W-WHAT ABOUT REVIVING YOUR NASOD RACE!" I yelled out, reminding the Nasod Queen of her dream.

"It doesn't matter..." Her empty words driven by her desire to be with Chung escaped out of her mouth. "...there's no current technology...capable of doing such a thing anyway."

"Then live!" I calmed down and continued persuading her, much to Infinity's mockingly laughing amusement. "Live and find a way somehow! Surely there's someone that can help you! Like Echo!" I pleaded with her to try harder to cling to her life.

"But Chung...was the only one truly reliable in aiding my progress. With him gone...continuing on is pointless." I couldn't take it anymore and aimed an attack at Infinity to prevent him from going through with Eve's desperate plan.

"AGING!" I summoned a chained dark ball, flinging its dark-imbued power at Infinity in a blind rage.

"GIGA STREAM!" To my surprise Eve fired the gigantic light beam at my attack, causing the two to collide and explode then disappear. As the dark and light particles faded away, I shockingly saw how deadly intent she was at seeing this through. "Aisha...don't interfere. I hoped...to be with Chung in another time." She concluded, bowing her head to half of Chung's blood squirting head and giving Infinity the signal.

"A free meal with no work? There's no way I can pass an offer like that!" The blood-stained face merely licked off more blood from his lips proceeded to slam his flaming sword to the ground.

"NO EVE!" I called out to her one last time, knowing that it was in vain. Damn Elsa didn't even lift a finger to snap the Nasod out of it.

"RAGE CUTTER!" Infinity screamed with a terrifyingly happy tone. Immediately he struck the ground with his burning sword, emitting a spell circle surrounding the gunslinger's corpse and Eve. As I stood there motionless as mini flaming blades erupted from the circle slicing and dicing both Eve and the already sliced up corpse into more slices, with an added burn effect. More tears watered my vision as I made out that during the whole ordeal, the Battle Seraph was smiling.

SLASH! BZZT! CRZZT! Due to being a Nasod, Eve's corpse broke like a mechanical toy and malfunctioned due to the amount of heat piercing the metal causing all the sliced up parts to explode.

"Tch I guess she really is scrap metal." Infinity deduced with a frown. "Well there goes any extra blood...unless you want to offer yourself up as well Elsa?" He sighed, smirking at his host's sister while cleaning up the mess with Sword Fire.

You know what, I don't really care anymore at this rate. For someone determined to stop Elsword or this monster that possessed him from killing anyone, Elsa didn't do shit in helping out Chung or Eve during their deaths. I guess I was right, all she cared about is making amends with her brother for her abandonment years ago. She can give herself up for all I care, no wonder Elsword felt anguish at her.

"No." The Lord Knight finally spoke, unsheathing her sword and pointing it towards the Infinity Slayer. "That day I promised to spar with you all those years ago, well now we can finally duke it out Elsword!" Are you serious?! Even after watching that transformation with us she still believes her love-crazed brother is still in there?

"Ah yes Elsword told me about that time. Heard you broke his heart when you went back on your promise." He mocked her, gripping his (now) dual flaming swords thanks to the aforementioned Sword Fire in a fighting stance. "But I'm not Elsword anymore and there's no way he can go back in this body."

"Even so you fight like him." Elsa stated, bringing about my attention. She was right. Even though this Infinity Slayer monster is completely different, he fights just like the Rune Slayer!

"Well well, it seems you're the first to make this observation despite not seeing him in action these past few years. I guess your so-called "sibling bond" isn't as severed as I thought it would be, in one side of it anyway."

"I'll just have to make amends this way, come at you-"

"DARK CLOUD!" I couldn't take this anymore. In anguish I summoned a poisonous cloud in Elsa's direction, prompting the Lord Knight to immediately cover the lower half of her face with her sleeve while coughing and hacking at the poison (despite being at its least harmful setting).

"-cough- Aisha?! -cough-" She called to me in disbelief, immediately shutting up upon seeing my death glare.

"Angkor...see to her ailments and give her an antidote." I called upon the devil bat, appearing on my shoulder and heeding my orders. As it flew to Elsa, perfectly harmless in the poisonous gas cloud, I turned to the direction of Infinity, the aura of darkness radiating off of him reacting to my charging dark magic.

"So the Void Princess grew a backbone and decide to take me on after all huh? Good thing I'm the one fighting you, Elsword would've been a pussy and avoid meeting you in battle." He readied his dual burning swords. I on the other hand finished charging up mana with my staff, ready to fight.

"Yeah well even though Elsword killed Raven and Rena in blind love-crazed rage, you killed those two in cold blood with all meaning."

"It was Elsword that wanted me to kill that pitiful assassin and piece of scrap metal anyway, I don't see what the big deal is. He also told me not to kill you, doesn't mean I can let you go scot-free!" I refrained from shuddering as a smirk slowly formed on his face, why does every pervert think like that when they see me?

"Enough talk." I silenced the room with an overflowing aura of dark magic. Damn now that I think about it, nearly all my attacks are useless. This Infinity Slayer can just absorb most of my skills, guess I'll have to make do without using any dark magic or fire spells. Tch, what a pain.

"What are you waiting for? Ladies first!" He taunted me, knowing that I'd get pissed off. Following his advice, I advanced toward him quickly by teleporting to him and starting our final clash.

"Mana Steal!" Before he could burn away my wooden staff with a slice of his flaming swords, I stole some of his mana and forced the real metallic sword he's holding to get rid of its flames.

"Tch, Storm Blade!" Infinity summoned a giant stature of fiery blades rotating round and round, too bad he missed thanks to me teleporting at the last second.

"Binding Circle!" I trapped him within that Storm Blade before he could retract it from him, getting ready to electrocute him. "Lightning Bolt!" Gathering up more mana, I blasted bolts of lightning from my fingers straight at him. Unfortunately they didn't seem to do any serious damage to him.

"Heh even with all of your great spells you can't ever hope to defeat me." He taunted as Elsword's metallic sword and my staff clashed in a power struggle, gliding his flaming sword slowly to my side as to mock me. "Why don't you just save yourself the trouble and rule alongside me in an era of Darkness Aisha?"

"Like I ever would, the first thing I need to do is get rid of any threats of Elrios. That includes you y'know." I countered sarcastically, putting up a Mana Shield as his flaming sword hits me then teleported away.

"SANDSTORM!" Out of nowhere the two of us paused our fight and turned to the direction of the shout, finding the aptly named storm of sand swat away my poisonous cloud (and Angkor with it). Elsa faced us, heavily panting and sword drawn, and looks...ill. "Don't...count me out...yet."

"It looks like she didn't drink that antidote huh Aisha?" SMACK! Before I could react Infinity hit me with a cheap shot with the blunt of his sword, propelling me beside Elsa with a thud.

"Tch guess I'll need your help after all Elsa." I summoned a Power Accelerator buff, increasing Elsa's physical attack to aid her. "The best I can do for now is support, you're gonna have to do the fighting."

"All right...then..." Damn the Lord Knight really didn't drink the Antidote. Guess we'll have to wrap up this fight in a few minutes at most or else all hope is lost.

"Are you two ready yet? Cause ready or not here I come!" Infinity charged at us without a second thought, stabbing forward while summoning three fire swords to strike the space his sword struck. The two of us dodged the attack, Elsa with more difficulty than me, and proceed to team attack him.

"Binding Circle!" Once again I stopped him in his tracks, charging up my mana while Elsa begins her assault.

"ARMAGEDDON BLADE!" Elsa used the power of her inner aura to enhance her sword's strength and range, rolling in mid-air to catch Infinity and subject him to many combos. She spun him around in a circle, smashed his head with the hilt of her sword, then swung him over and over in a windmill. However with that last attack...Infinity glowed a faint red aura.

"Nice moves, I think it's my turn now! Sword Enchant!" Infinity imbued his swords with Runes, increasing their critical hit chances and stunning Elsa with the initial hit. "Luna Blade! Phoenix Talon!" He summoned a blue magical blade to crash down on Elsa, taking away half of her mana, and smacked her upwards with an upper slash. Going underneath where she would land, Infinity summoned a flaming phoenix to scorch the Lord Knight (who summoned Stoic at the last second) and gained speed buffs from that attack.

"Double Slash!"

"Final Strike!"

"Shield Accelerator!" Right as the two clashed, I summoned a defense buff for me and Elsa to lessen the damage against Infinity's black hole slash while the Lord Knight's meteor crashed down at full damage. Smoke bellowed and forced me to use a Mana Shield to protect my eyes from the smoke. "Damn...can't see anything." I grunted, forced wait for the smoke to disappear.

Several moments later it did, however what awaited me was what really surprised me to put it simply.

Both of their weapons pierced the abdomen of their opponent's owners, Elsa's blade inside Infinity and his dual blades in the Lord Knight. They coughed up blood and faced me, who stood over them, then at themselves.

"I never expected...for it to end...like this." Elsa rasped out, still glad that the aura of darkness surrounding Infinity started to dull.

"Heh, I guess you were my last kill. Elsword should be happy about this." Infinity muttered more comprehensively.

"So it turned out the way you wanted, except you're dying slowly and painfully isn't it?" I pointed out, remembering Elsa's plan from the start.

"Then follow... what we agreed on... Aisha, finish him off swiftly... right here!" The Lord Knight commanded me, as if I would follow the plan while leaving her to suffer.

"No, I'll send you both out together." Surprisingly Elsa seemed content on my decision with Infinity smirking. I walked behind the Lord Knight and charged up my mana for one final attack.

"PLASMA CUTTER!" I pointed my finger from the back of Elsa's throat and fired a plasma beam, splitting open Elsa's throat. The beam traveled to Infinity and...

"Can't kill me that easi- GWAH!" The Infinity Slayer couldn't dodge in time as the plasma beam cuts open the front of his neck, causing him to hack more blood out and suffer for a few final moments whereas Elsa already lays dead with the red liquid forming a bigger circle around her.

I stared triumphantly at the crimson boy hacking up blood in agony. Whether he was Elsword or that monstrous Infinity Slayer, Elrios is saved from yet another bloodthirsty murderer. The one who used to be the leader in our little family the past three years. The one who, thanks to a disillusioned goal about love, killed all of our friends just to be "together forever" with me. And finally the one who succumbed to darkness in order to achieve his goals.

The crimson Infinity Slayer reached out at me with an outstretched hand and pleading eyes with disbelief written in them as if after all the victims he lets suffer in agony, this cold-blooded murderer wants to exit this world quick and painlessly. I gave him my most glaring death gaze and firmly spoke my final words to him.

"I could never forgive you for what you did, Elsword!" I spat at him mockingly, turning around towards the balcony and slamming the door.

What I didn't know was that at his final moments, the human known as Elsword had Crimson red eyes instead of Blood red.

Elsword's POV

"W-Where...the hell am I?" I remember rather enjoying Infinity Sword's carnage at Hamel Castle, especially the bit against Sis. However what surprised me is how I regained control of my own body right as Aisha shot Infinity with that Plasma Cutter? After the darkness overcame me, I woke up in another dark space. But this time it showed only one path.

This path...lead down.

"No..." I immediately realized exactly where I'm going as my feet wouldn't listen to my command to run away from it. Suddenly the path I'm on started to move on its own, leading me further and further down these descending stairs straight to Hell. "W-What the?!" As fear began to pile up inside me, I noticed seven wispy forms gathering close to me. Who they resembled...propelled my fear emotion sky high.

"That was all for Aisha? A real Knight wouldn't protect his girl while he himself is insane." The bitchy Blade Master Raven's voice echoed through one of the wisps. Suddenly I now realize what's going to happen to me.

"You didn't have any compassion in any fiber of your body. You can't possibly live peacefully with Aisha without controlling that anger of yours Elsword." The slutty Grand Archer Rena was next, mocking me even more. These wisps are here to guilt trip me to oblivion, possibly sent here from "Heaven" just to taunt me for getting what I deserve.

"Killing us all for a supposed noble quest to free Aisha from all obstacles. That's right isn't it Elsword?" The Deadly Chaser Chung chanted.

"Thinking like that will never get you into a true relationship Elsword." The Code Battle Seraph Eve chimed in.

"I'm sorry for what I did little brother. What I'm not sorry for is killing all your friends to stay together with one." Dammit! Even Sis is here!

"Stop it...stop it..." I pleaded with the five wisps to stop their chanting, holding my head with both hands and getting on my knees in pain. A few moments passed and finally all was silent...until the two wisp forms that showed up were the very two I despised communicating with the most.

"After all the Hell you went to. After all the help I gave you in order to steer you from this path. You still accepted this bloody path and killed all your friends. You didn't get what you want, eliminated everyone important to you, and got Aisha aka the love of your life to hate you with every fiber of your being. Good job Elsword, maybe if you were careful in another time-line you could've been in a happier life with the magician. A happier life with Aisha...just like me." Lord Knight, my goody two-shoes conscience, lectured me before disappearing. What the hell did he mean by that?! He's...me from who I could've been in a happier ending?

DAMMIT! I struck my fist in the ground as Knight's wisp disappeared. I can smell smoke in the air...and felt very very hot. Before I knew it, my body was being boiled down by a flaming hot cauldron!

I pleaded help from the final wisp. Seething pain gathered from my legs and slowly started to make their way up. Finally this last wisp talked, who turned out to be the very person I took advice from.

"Guess I had to make you suffer during those last few moments huh Elsword? Actions have consequences and honestly, I don't want to suffer for the crimes that mostly you did on your own. I'm just glad to finally have some company in this lonely Hell. Like Knight I'm another you from an alternate time-line. Let's just say that unlike that pussy and even you, I killed every single one of them. Anyways have fun in Hell Elsword! HAHAHAHA!" Infinity Sword, my supposed bad conscience, revealed that he's also me from a far worse universe.

"You two...were actually...me?" Was the only thing that uttered out of my mouth. One that came from a "good ending" and one from a "bad ending". I...I didn't want to die like this! All I wanted was a happy ending like Knight! Instead...I got myself a really bad ending courtesy of Infinity and the Dark El. A single tear started to roll down my cheek as I faced skyward with an outstretched hand, asking God to help change my fate when I know it's all in vain.

"My only wish...is for things to end better next time..." I muttered to myself one last time before the flames of the pot consumed me whole.

Aisha's POV

"Angkor..." I called upon my bat familiar once again once I reached the outside balcony of the castle.

"Yes...my Void Princess?" For the first time in a while, the demon bat finally started talking.

"I...resign from our contract." I gathered my breath and uttered the aforementioned words, much to Angkor's shocked expression.

"B-But Aisha, why would you want to reject my power after all this time? Is it because you don't want the darkness to consume you in this time of peace?"

"No it's not that..." I trailed off, blankly staring at the thunderstorm out here getting lighter and lighter. "I just don't want anymore of my friends to suffer a fate like the rest of them..."

"Okay then. You are relieved of your duties." Fortunately my bat friend understood my situation, being kind enough to let me keep the Void Princess outfit it made. "Goodbye Aisha." The demon bat flew away in a portal back into Darkness.

"Goodbye...Angkor." I whispered my goodbye to him, silently waving my hand. Finally the storm stopped and the clouds parted, revealing a rainbow. A rainbow shining and acting all happy up there, when down here on Earth all of my friends are dead or gone and I live to suffer alone. I stared at the colorful mystical object in the air, hoping to fill myself with at least a little bit of happiness from the beautiful and blissful rainbow.

However no matter how much I look at it, it only tells me how far away my dreams are and how harsh the reality of my situation truly is.

I followed the end of the rainbow through my eyes until it stopped at a raging river right below me. I sighed and accepted what I must do.

I set my wooden staff and my purple hair ribbons down on the ground of the balcony and jumped over the railing into the current five stories below.

Maybe going into the river where the rainbow stops can finally reunite my happy dreams and I together and let the river wash away all the pain and sorrow I felt at this reality. Maybe I could live a happier life together with the rest of my friends when they were still alive. And...maybe in that more peaceful life...I could be with Elsword to get him over his problems in a safer and more loving way.

I closed my eyes and accepted my fate, falling from the balcony and plunging into the harsh current which joined together with the end of the rainbow.

Me: And that's the end. Bet no one expected an ending like this XD!

Mario: Nope, anyway that's the end of Red Stained Knight. Tune in next week when Fire finally updates another story!