A/N- Wassup? It's TOBN here with the second part to The Fight For Christmas! I am excited, especially after the last chapter. What can you say? I love cliffhangers.
So with the tenth day, comes a tenth lyric!
"On the Tenth day of Christmas, a person gave to me:
Ten Love Potions
Nine Valentines From Ethan
Eight Insults From Erica
Seven Reruns of the Movie
Six Lucifractors
Five Fries From A Pan!
Four Wooden Stakes
Three Bad-Ass Vampires
An Ethan and A Benny
And the Third Season of MBAV!"
What? It would be cool to get all the boys to love me! Y'know...minus the "I'm gonna kill you" part. ;)
Shoutouts to...
tomo338- Thank you! I do my best:) Anyway, this chapter was one of my favorites to write, so I hope you enjoy!
MBAV Fan- RIP motorcycle. LOL! I bet you can't wait to see what is happening with Benny; and now you will find out! LOL review soon Fanfoc buddy!
So with that, have a great day and oh, drop a merry review! I think chapters might be shorter now...maybe. I don't have much left of the story, but there is just enough to make a good story with a good ending. Promise ;)
Disclaimer: I don't own MBAV or its characters. Just this plot and my OC Sky.
ENJOY!
P.S- "Faux" means fake. I dunno why I put in here; it sounds cool and fancy ;)
Holiday Friends: Chapter 10: The Fight For Christmas Part 2
Benny, eyes closed, continued to fight his friends as the Shadow laughed.
"Benny! Stop, please!" Erica begged as Benny smiled.
"Shut up Shadow; you hurt my friends, and now I HURT YOU!" He kicked Erica down to the ground as she yelped in pain. Sky looked at him, and scanned the area.
Her friends were on the ground. Ethan, nose still faintly bleeding as Sarah was on her knees, aiding him. Rory groaned as he rolled in the snow, clearly in pain. Erica looked at Sky, fear in her eyes.
"Sky...you have to get our Benny back...Whitechapel depends on you..on us...on him!" Sky masked her face of hurt and pain with a face of determination.
"I will Erica...for me, us, him, and Whitechapel!" Sky turned to face Benny, who had opened his eyes. They were dark and black as a dark smoke swirled around him. He turned to face the Shadow and smiled.
"For you Sky. I will avenge you." Shadow smiled. "Okay Benny...defeat the last one. And I will be yours." Sky looked at him and Shadow in confusion as Benny threw yet another punch at Sky. Sarah, Erica, and Rory attempted to stand up, but a magical force caused by Benny brought them down. Sky, for the first time, threw a punch at Benny, hitting him by surprise. He collapsed in clear pain. Shadow looked at Benny, eyes glowing a pale blue behind its dark mask as it growled. But it masked its fury with fake empathy.
"C'mon Benny! For me!" Benny's eyes glowed a hazy blue as he kicked Sky in the side. Sky grunted in pain as she attempted another punch. But Benny held her fist and threw her down back to the cold, but luckily fluffy, snow. Sky faced the Shadow.
"What did you do to Benny?! Turning him against us...what did you DO?!" She yelled as she pounced at Shadow. But to her surprise, the Shadow didn't put up a fight. Instead, it pretended to be weak and defenseless.
"S-Stop! B-Benny! Help me!" Benny turned to face Shadow, rage building up inside of him as his eyes flashed a intimate blue. He growled as he swiped the blonde spellmaster out of the Shadow's hands.
"You bitch! Get your hands off Sky, NOW!" He threw her to the ground in fury as Sky moaned in pain. She looked at Benny, who towered above her.
"She's the Shadow Benny! I'm Sky...I am really your friend!" But all Benny did was smirk at her.
"Imposter" He murmured as his voice rose. "Your lies won't work with me now demon. Prepare to die..for all my friends!"
A fireball emerged from his hands and he aimed it at Sky and fired. Sky's friends watched in terror as the fireball blazed towards her. She yelped and rolled out of the way, the fireball darting towards Ethan's wrist as Sky's necklace from Benny rumbled in her shirt.. He winced in pain as the fireball slacked against his wrist, leaving a burn and burning the watch Shadow gave him. It sliced and shriveled in half as it laid on the thick snow. The screen zoomed to a black screen as Ethan clung to his wrist in pain. He quickly dug it in the cold snow and sighed in comfort. Benny looked at him and his eyes glazed into a emerald green once more.
"E-Ethan? Oh my goodness...are you okay?" He rushed up to his shaken friend, his eyes holding fear and worry. But Ethan pushed him off as he scrambled to his feet.
"What was that Benny? First, you punch me and gave me a bleeding nose." He pointed to his red nose and the small pool of red on the snow as he continued. "Second of all. You fired at Sky...then it hit me! What is wrong with you?!" Benny's face slackened to a confused look as the dazed spellmaster looked at Sky.
"What are you talking about? I never punched you, and the 'Sky' isn't Sky. I think I only can see it: She's really Shadow!" Ethan gave his friends a confused look as they shrugged helplessly. Sky gave it some thought before it hit her.
"Guys! Take off the watch! The watch that Shadow gave you, it's feeding illusions to Benny! It is all a trap!" The three vampires did what they were told, bouncing up to the feet as they let their silver watches drop to the floor. Shadow shrieked in rage.
"You idiot! Do you not know what you did?!" Sky smiled as she too undid her watch from her wrist as she let it fall to the snowy ground, no sound as it was buried into the fluff of snow. Shadow looked at her in fury as Sky stomped on the watch with her heel, shattering it as she held a mischievous smirk and flashed it towards Shadow. "I just saved Christmas you ass. Do you not appreciate it? Oh yeah...YOU CAUSED THIS! So beat that bitch; I win. We win."
But Shadow shook its head. "No way am I giving up. Behold, the power of...me!" It snapped its fingers and before Benny could see, Shadow's clothing disappeared, leaving new clothes that included a bright red jacket, brown boots and a pink hat. Rory gasped. "What the...now I am confused." Sarah, Erica, Ethan and Sky nodded as Benny turned around to face the two people in front of him; Sky and Shadow. Except there was one flaw.
Shadow mirrored Sky.
"What is this? Why do you look like me?" But Faux Sky smiled smugly.
"What are you talking about? I am Sky Bryans, and you are Shadow! You look like me!" Sky looked at her in fear as Benny stumbled a bit to the side.
"So which one of you are real? Ethan, Erica, Sarah, Rory...you should know...right?" Ethan, Erica, Sarah and Rory exchanged looks as they shrugged. Erica rubbed the bridge of her nose.
"I..I don't know Benny. They look so alike!"
The Faux Sky and the Real Sky exchanged looks. Faux Sky smiled.
"We cannot settle this with them. They are most likely going to influence you to pick the wrong one. I am Sky. She is not. So we are all gonna find out who's who."
And before anyone could protest, Faux Sky snapped her fingers and they, being Faux Sky, Real Sky, and Benny, were swept away in a blizzard of snow before disappearing completely. Then everything just blurred as they disappeared, leaving Ethan, Sarah, Erica and Rory confused and...worried.
A mini tornado of snow blazed through the city. Benny couldn't make out where he was going, but he knew that it was going to be a short trip, and that he'd have to make a choice soon.
Who was Sky really? Who was the Shadow? And what the heck happened in the last few days anyway?
He knew he died. He died in Sky's arms on the night that he regretted ever even existed. The night he died during that winter storm. He died, freezing to his death, cold and shivering to his last frozen breath.
Even worse, he died in his best friend's arms. It was devastated, really. How could anyone do that?
Oh right. The Shadow would.
Why did he ever think this was going to end? It was obvious that the Shadow had no ending to this tragic and cruel world it was going to create. It was plain cold if anyone was to say anything.
But Benny had to ignore that fact and start thinking of his choice. It was so fatal and was so important; his whole life depended on it. But now that Benny thought of it, he sounded over-dramatic. He wanted to laugh, like everything was okay.
But then again, it wasn't.
He knew that if he chose the wrong Sky, his friends would also suffer the consequences alongside, him. He heard voices, but ignored them as he continued to think deeply.
So he had to be careful and look for the True Sky's qualities.
Well, to start, she was genuine and would do anything to get her friends in the right track. In other words: She would suffer, as long as her friends were happy and safe.
A plan brewed in Benny's mind. It was genius. But then Benny stopped his happiness in his tracks.
There was one flaw with his plan...
He was risking his life.
He shivered. He died once, and it was not pretty. What if he died again? How would he be able to return again? No way the Shadow would let him go back to the living again; at least if it had a good reason to like it did last time.
Why did the Shadow release him anyway? Benny decided if he asked the right questions, that he might figure everything out.
First of all, why did the Shadow release him anyway?
Benny thought about it for a while. For one, Shadow had said that he was to help get revenge. But why would Benny be in any use if he was dead? Well, it was obvious that he was brought back to life, but what happened before that?
All Benny remembered about the events of the day was that he had mentally talked to Sky...well..it was a bit one-sided, considering he was dead. But then the Shadow had appeared in his mind, and everything snowballed from there.
So the final question was this:
Who was the real Sky...and how could he reveal it?
Because the heavens only knew if the plan would really work. Would Shadow fake their moves too? Who would know?
Suddenly, his body ricocheted from the small, safe bubble of snow he was originally trapped in. His cheek rubbed against a hard surface, scraping it as it left a small red cut. He winced, but he also opened his eyes, that he realized were closed. He looked around him in fear. "I'm on the school roof..who's idea was this?" He yelled, not knowing if anyone heard him. Two shadows hovered over him as Benny gasped.
He saw two pairs of pale blue eyes staring back at him
"It's time Benny" They said. "Who is the real Sky?"
They tortured him with words as Benny backed away slowly, still on the ground as he frantically stared at the twins.
It was time to make his choice.
And Benny hoped he would make the right one.
"It's now or never." He thought.
And with that, Benny bounced to his feet.
He walked to the edge of the roof, his back facing the cool air. Benny heard both Sky's plea him not to, but he ignored their cries. He stared at the two Sky's, who were staring at him intensely in confusion, he attempted to brave a smile.
"So which one of you will save me?"
Sky tried to see amongst the blur of snow her twin had created. She could make out all its features.
The blonde curls, the bright red jacket, even her eyes. It was a perfect copy of Sky. If she wasn't her, she would also be confused.
It did have one flaw though, you know, aside from the fact it's not her.
She then turned to Benny. He was deep in sleep, unconscious from the blast of snow being too much for him. His looks showed he was in deep thinking as his face was slackened with confusion and fear. I wonder what he's thinking about... I mused as I turned to face my twin again.
"Look, I know your Shadow. So why can't you just admit it already? It's not like we have much to lose. Smell the roses," I said, making sure it noticed its quote in there. "Benny will know it's me. There is one way that he will know it, and you still aren't noticing it. If you were a smart Shadow, you would know when you lose." But Shadow just laughed.
"Are you effing kidding me? I am cloning a blonde, you shouldn't be talking." Sky growled as it continued."I am a perfect clone of you, same hair, same eyes, same clothing, same accessories, same everything! And as far as it goes, Benny will know that we are the same. And when he chooses me, he, and your friends, will pay for what you did to me. What all of Whitechapel did to me. Read my lips: THEY'LL. ALL. PAY!"
Its demonic voice echoed the city as Sky backed away an inch, due to the bubble of snow being so small. Shadow smiled beneath its dark mask.
"What is wrong Sky? Afraid...of yourself?" Sky growled as Shadow laughed. It looked outside the blizzard of snow and smiled.
"We're here. And I trust you recognize this place...so many happy memories don't you think?"
Sky peered out of the snow and made out a faint landscape. She bubbled in fury as she looked at Shadow.
"Really? You bitch." Shadow laughed.
"Only you. Now let's go shall we?"
Suddenly, Sky was flung out of the blizzard of snow, along with Benny's limp body and Faux Sky. She landed on the roof's rough surface.
Benny almost died here...what makes the Shadow think Benny's going to be able to choose here? Sky bitterly thought as she saw Benny awaken. She stood up as with Faux Sky.
"It's time Benny." They said at the same time. Sky looked at Shadow in anger as she gave her the 'Really?' look. "Who is the real Sky?" They said together, regardless to the fact that they repeated the same mistake.
Benny slowly backed away, still on the ground as he frantically stared at the two twins. Real Sky gave him the most genuine smile she could as the Shadow mirrored her exact moves. Benny bounced to his feet and walked towards the edge of the roof.
"Benny..Benny stop!" Real Sky screamed. Faux Sky walked up to him too, a fake sense of fear rising in her. "You don't want to do this Benny. There's a easier way, I promise!" Sky looked at her as she smugly smiled at her. "Damn." She whispered. "If I didn't know you were fake, then I would be convinced too." Faux Sky frowned. "Are you kidding me? There's more phoney in your voice than anyone else." She hissed back.
But Benny ignored them as his back faced the cool wind. He braved a smile.
"So which one of you will save me?"
He then selflessly flung himself off the roof, his hair flowing through the wind. Sky yelped in fear as she and the clone ran up to Benny. The seconds flew by so slowly as Sky;s thoughts raced as fast as train. If I get their first, he'll know it's me. It's genius! Faux Sky seemed to understand also as she raced towards Benny.
Two hands clasped onto his wrist.
Benny looked at the two in fear.
"You...you both caught me. That was NOT so supposed to happen!" He trembled in fear as the Sky's looked at each other in fear.
"Benny! You have to look closely; something doesn't belong in the clone. She doesn't have what I have!" Faux Sky growled. "Stop lying!"
But Benny noticed.
A single friendship necklace dangled in the air.
"Sky. She has a necklace." Faux Sky let go of Benny as she felt her bare neck. Real Sky pulled Benny up as Shadow, aka Faux Sky, growled as it stepped away from the reunited friends.
"You guys won't get away with this. You will all pay!"
And with that, it disappeared.
Sky and Benny hugged tightly, fully committed to being in a tight embrace as the snow started to fall.
"Hey!" Benny exclaimed. Sky smiled. "Hey. I..I missed you!"
Benny nodded as he grasped her hand.
"I did too. Let's go home Sky. Our friends have a surprise for us, I know it."
Sky smiled. "Okay."
And with a snap of the fingers, Benny and Sky disappeared in a puff of smoke.
A/N- I hope you loved this! I loved writing it! Just one more chapter until the epilogue! Are you excited as I am?
So drop a review and have a snow-worthy day!
In Fangs, We Trust.
