Chapter 10

HIM is in this chapter again I'm using Royal Blue Alchemist's HIM dialog "strategy"

Soft/Normal Voice

Mad/Pissed off Voice

Mitch's POV

Buttercup's room had been left empty since her death, in a way I suppose that's quite sad. For me it was just somewhere I wouldn't be interrupted. My papers were, somewhat sensitive and it wouldn't do to have people know exactly what I do with my life.
The only paper that mattered now was right infront of me and it still didn't make sense. The five points spread out on the map, and now a sixth at the center, added last week.
And now none of it made sense, opening Hell only needed five points, the great gate of Hell made the sixth point. A sixth point only made it more complicated, and come to that why would Him even need something that large. With his power all he would need would be a small pentagram around the gate of Hell.
Even more unusual I realised, this wouldn't even overcome the defenses of Hell, if any thing they'd just make it harder to...
And in that second it all made sense. The pentagram wasn't a key, it was a lock. Not a new gate but a barrier to keep Him in.

Blossom POV
It had been three weeks since Buttercup's death and nothing had changed. In a way I would have been less surprised if all the legions of hell had sprung out of my cupboard. One of the planets most powerful people was dead something should have changed. Mitch morned her death for a couple of days more but soon got over it, along with rest of the town. That was odd too, I was sure he would have been as horrified as we were about the death of his best friend. However one day I got home from school, Mitch came in a rush.
"Wow slow down what's the problem?"
Mitch stopped for a second, seemingly only just noticing me, then he took out the map with the pentagram.
"Someone is trying to break the six seals to set Him free from Hell."
He a took a red pen and mark the top point "Someone or something destroyed the first one and if it destroys the last one there is only one more step."
"Which is?"
"To open Hell's Gate. So let me gets this straight these 'seals' keep Him on a leash and Hell's Gate is the main part of the leash."
"In short, it keeps HIM from starting Armageddon?"
Bubbles then flew in a panic, "Blossom! Buttercup's grave, it's ripped open."
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"Its like someone ripped open the grave and stole the body."
I think I heard Mitch say, "Not Good."
I then came up with a plan . I went down to professor lab and grabbed eight radio earpieces, I grabbed my cellphone from my room and called phone and he picked up "Hey Brick I want you and Boomer down at my house ASAP!"
"On it." He then hung up.
I looked up,"Noah can you please come down here?"
I turned around and I saw Noah with Bell and Blizzard barely a minute later Brick and Boomer arrived.
"Okay now we're all here. Here's the situation as it stands. Someone is breaking six seals to set HIM free of his chains, they have already destroyed one. We can assume that the remaining five will be attacked and it is our duty to stop them falling."
I looked at Bubbles, "Bubbles and I will go to the one in Citysville."
"Brick you go to the first in Endsville, Bell the second, and Blizzard the last."
I then looked at Boomer,"Boomer you go to the last one in Farmsville. Now we're spreading our forces thin but-"
"What about me and Noah?" Mitch asked, rudely interrupting my speech.
"You two find and guard Hell's Gate. Since you, Mitch, have no superpowers you would be more of a liability in a fight, but with your knowledge finding Hell's Gate should be no problem."
"So how do we commentate to each other?" Brick asked.
I then picked up the earpices,"With these, put them in your ear." I waited till everyone had one.

"Ready?"

"Ready." Everyone replied.
"Let's go."

Bubble's POV
We were at Cityville Cemetery in mere matter of minutes.
"God this place give me the creeps."
When found the seal which tombstone with just pentagram on it.
"This is Blossom to everyone. We found the seal."
"This Bell there's another one here."
"Brick. Arrived in Endsville. God this place is strange. should be called Weirdville." Blossom groaned, which seemed to remind him what he was meant to be doing, "Anyways found the seal."
"Blizzard I found- found-" Blizard's voice crackled for a second then was lost in static.
"Blizzard do you read? I repeat do you read?" Blossom yelled into her ear piece, getting more and more frustrated with each passing second, "What's have you found? Blizzard? Respond. God if this is some sort of joke I'll-"
"Blossom" I said resting a hand on her arm, "I think we lost contact." I said looking around, "But don't worry, I added hastily, "He's just gone out of range, or his radio's broken. Or something-" I finished lamely.
Blossom didn't respond though, not even to tell me that Blizzard couldn't possibly have gone out of range because of some amazingly technical thing I wouldn't understand. I followed her gaze after a second, to see the grass waving softly in a wind that wasn't there. To see we had no shadow even though it perfect sunny day, with the sun right behind us.
Blossom found her voice first, "Bubbles you stay here," She said in as business-like a voice as she could, "I'm going to patrol the rest of the cemetery. If you hear me call for hell, run. Don't try and save me, go and get help. Something about this whole thing makes me think we'll need it."
She zipped away.I then sat down at the tombstone. I closed my eyes and tried to calm myself. I opened them a few minutes later and turned my head to the left to see someone at cemetery gate.

"Buttercup?"

I sped to her and hugged her."But how?"
She didn't reply but just watched me with a serious (almost angry) look.
"Blossom come here Butercup's-"
"I'm coming." I heard Blossom say.
I closed my eyes and I continued to hug her. She didn't move an inch.
"Bubbles," Blossom's voice was filled with worry, "There's nothing there but air."
I opened my eyes and saw there really was nothing there. I began to cry, barely able to here Blossom trying to comfort me, telling me that my mind was playing tricks on me, that it was all because-
She never finished. She just trailed off and moved away, I wiped the tears from my eyes and looked up.
The gravestone with the seal on was gone. Shards of stone were all that remained, it looked as if someone had just shattered the stone like a pain of glass. I found myself staring, trying to picture what could have done this. Blossom just wheeled round, yelling into her ear-piece now.
"This is Blossom does anyone read?"
"Yep loud and clear." Brick said, "Too loud actual." He added.
"Same," Came Boomer's response.
"I'm still at the seal," Bell's voice next.
"Affirmative." Noah now. Followed quickly by Mitch.
"Mitch hows goes the search for Hell's Gate?"
"I think we found it."
"Okay proceed to your second objective."
"On it, Mitch out." Came the reply as the line went dead.
"Okay. The enemy's shown themselves. Beware of hallucinations, lost of radio contact, and not able to see your shadow. We were going meet you, Brick and help you."

"I look fowar-fow-" Brick cut off in a burst of static.
Blossom turned to me, "We'll get to Brick's position now!"
We flew to Endsville.
Brick POV
"This Blossom does anyone read?"
"Yep loud and clear." I acknowledged, "Too loud actually."
"Okay. The enemy's shown themselves. Beware of hallucinations, lost of radio contact, and not able to see your shadow. We were going meet you, Brick and help you."
"I look forward to-" I began but stopped but stopped when she cut off and static sounded.
"Okay Brick don't worry it could be technical difficulties." I told myself. I believed it too, until I looked down. I didn't have shadow. I snapped my head back up again quickly after that, something was moving from tombstone to tombstone quickly and silently.
"Okay whoever's here show yourself!"
Next thing I knew I was knocked from behind and my whole world went black
"Brick wake up,Brick!" I heard Blossom say.
I worked out it was probably best to do what she said.
"Brick what happened?" Blossom asked.
"Something knocked out from behind." I replied and rubbed my head. "Pretty hard since they could knock me down."
We turned, the tombstone had been cut in half.
"Crap." I sad stamping my left foot on the ground.
"This is Blossom we are moving to Bell's position. Everyone else be on guard, whatever's doing this is insanely powerful, these seals don't look like they were even ever here."
So Bubbles, Blossom and I headed towards the second cemetery in Endsville.

Bell POV
I was so excited for my first supernatural mission. Okay, Bell- I told myself- calm down remember what daddy taught you. So I started levitating and and closed my eyes and focused my mind in thing I knew I saw my cemetery in 360 degree vision.
"Hey there, sis."
"Blizzard where are you I don't see you?"
"I'm communicating telepathically." He sounded excited.

"Why?"

"Just case one of us looses radio communication."
"Understood. So anything going on in your position?"
"No, expect a little blond girl approached me and an idiotic boy. But she's much more interesting, she had dark aura."
"Whats was her Name?"

"Mandy."

"Did you talk to her?"
"Yes and I accidentally told her I was an angel and she punched me in the face and walked away."

"Wow."

"I know."
Then I noticed a demon in the cemetery.

"Blizzard,I..Blizzard?"

I guess this demon can cut off telepathic communication as well.
Then I sped to it and shoved to the ground.
"What you are you?" I asked with a growl.
"Your worst nightmare."
She then disappeared and reappeared behind the tombstone and her arm writhed turning into a hammer. She started to swing it and I started to zip towards it,but I was too late. The demon crushed the forth seal as if it were made of paper.
"I'll be seeing you." The demon hissed and disappeared.
I then saw my bothers and sister flying in. When they touched down they immediately noticed the tombstone was destroyed.
"Did you see who did this?" Blossom said with a growl.
"Yes it was a demon."
"This is Blossom to Blizzard, Boomer,Mitch,and Noah. A demon is destroying the seals be on high alert."
"This Mitch to Bell do see how it looked?"
"Yes it had green and it was black."
"Thanks" Mitch said, speaking as briefly as he could, obviously busy.
"Come on Bell when need to go to Blizzard's position now!" Blossom said.
When got there Blizzard was tied in some kind of black rope. I got down and rushed toward Blizzard and untied him.
"What happened?"
"The demon she came from behind but I tried to kill it but it hit me to here and tied me up and destroyed the second to last seal."
I looked at the seal and it was smashed to pieces.
"We need to help my brother now!" Brick said.
"Yeah your right lets go."
"Boomer this is Brick if hear us the demon on approach be warned."
"I can barley hear yo.." Boomer then cut off.
We then flew up and rushed to Farmsville as fast as we could.

Boomer POV
"Brick, this is Boom Boomer, if you can hear us the demon is on approach be warned"
"I barely her you." I said. Static, "Brick what-" Brick had cut off.
I had been recently been reading Buttercup's studies on the supernatural and came upon excorism and how to kill a demon, I couldn't have had better luck if I'd dressed in four leaf clovers. So I followed the instructions as I remembered and put the pentagram around the tombstone.I then flew outside of it and went onto a nearby roof. I stayed and waited. The demon was there in matter of minutes and it went inside the circle. I flew there and met the demon.
"Hey there." I yelled, waving in a mock cheery manner.
"Let me out you spawn of a whore!" The creature screamed.
"Why are you doing this?"
"So my master can be free from his hell. Which is, well, Hell."
"Well I'm not allowing to set my second father free."
"Ha ha he does not refer to you or Brick as sons anymore. As far as I know the two of you have no fathers. It's a pity really." The demon's smile stretched still further.
That when I got angry, raising my arms I began the exorcism.
"Ha you think you can send me back to Hell, foolish wretch. Him put a spell on me that makes immune to exorcisms."
I then felt the ground shaking and the pentagram around the tombstone and the tombstone itself both shattered at once. That was it. The sixth seal was broken.
I moved to uppercut her but she stooped me half way through and knocked to the ground and punched in the stomach and then in the balls. I was out cold before her next blow even landed.

Bubbles POV
When we got there and I saw Boomer out cold I flew to him in a hurry,"Boomer!",I shook his body,"Boomer wake up!"
He began to open his eyes.
"Bro what happened to the seal." Brick's voice came from behind me.
"The demon destroyed-" He tried to answer but cut off in a fit of coughing, "I tried to battle it but it knocked out cold."
"Damn. Blossom to Mitch be extremely warned the demon broke all the seals we are heading towards your position ."
"Repeat Blossom did you say all the seals are broken?"
Blossom paused for a second before answering "Yes."
Mitch's response began with a stream of swears, after about a minute he composed himself enough to speak "Okay Noah and I are getting ready for all hands on deck."
"See there,Blossom out."
We then flew back to Towsville.

Mange POV
I then contacted my master telepathically ,"Master I have destroyed all the seals."
"Very good Mange,now all has to be done is to destroy Hell's Gate."
"I'm already there and want to it with a touch of fashion." I could almost see Him smile at that "I will return once it is done."
"Oh, there's really no need, you see I'll be there soon enough." Came Him's giggled reply, seconds before the telepathic link ripped itself from my head.
I then approached the Townsville Cemetery's Gates. I looked inside and I saw Mitch and accursed angle Noah with shotguns, I then transformed into Buttercup to fool them like I did with Bubbles. I open the gate and Mitch looked at me
"Buttercup is that you?" Mitch asked in a stunned voice.
"No it is not it is a demon." Noah groaned, raising his gun from the ground. Mitch then raised his own shotgun and started firing. I then zipped to cover and transformed to my true form. I leapt up and and grabbed them and threw them straight out of cemetery. I enforced the gate and put an invisible shield to make sure only the girls could enter. I transformed to Buttercup and waited for my 'sisters'. In no time I sensed them and soon after heard them shouting for the boys but they went in anyway.
"Buttercup?" Blossom said cautiously.
I tuned around and blinked to make my eyes go black, "I'm so sorry you have to see me like this.."
Then Bubbles cried and even Blossom (who had probably guessed what I was) shed a tear.
"You listen,I want my sister black." Blossom said.
"After how you treated her like she was a piece of trash, her time in hell and selling her soul and powers. I don't think so. After all I have a contract."
I then looked Bubbles and sensed anger from her ,"You monster!" She screamed and rushed towards me, "You're nothing but a soulless," I stepped away from her blow, "Heartless," Another punch which I dodged, "Evil." I smiled then, twisting my arm and slaming her and Blossom to the ground.
"Well what do you expect from the forces of Hell? Poor, poor Bubbles," I let the s trail on, "Always so naive." I then turn towards Hell's Gate, "Now if you excuse me I have more important things to do. I think my master would like to see you after all, it's really been too long."
I placed my hands on the arch and they stretched out in all direction and violently stretched the invisible gate open. It cracked (though only I could see that), I stretched out a little bit more and a white blinding light flowed from nowhere. The destruction of the Hell's Gate, followed by the return of my master, all to pass within the next few seconds. I licked my lips, it was almost too much to be patient for, after all patients is a virtue and we don't have much room for virtues 'down below'.
But after only one more stretch the gate broke and soon Him and Ten Thousand Fits would surge out laughing and cheering.
I turned back to the girl's and licked by lips, "Well ladies and gentlemen," Nothing worked like mockery to show that you'd won (and the language was so very delicious, so many words for evils that made them sound acceptable, like retreat instead of cowardice) "Here he comes! The much awaited, much anticipated and- dare I say it- the truly feared. The second lord of Hell, prince of darkness. Et cetera, et cetera." I paused leaning forwards and tapping a terrified Bubbles (who was frantically fiddling with that pathetic cross) on the chin, "Come on you all know who it is." I paused again, "That's right-"
"-Him." A high pitched voice finished.

Author Note:Chapter 10 is finally if took longer than Review