Crystal: welcome back to another chapter I hoped you liked the other one
Lovina: I got to admit this is getting interesting
Crystal: Thank you. So guys this chapter has yet again been written by Giselle. She got a new idea that she told me about and well it was her story to begin with so I told her to write this chapter as well :D
Road to the final
Lovina ran until she couldn't breathe. She hadn't been paying attention and she tripped on a branch and sobbed where she fell. That couldn't have been her doing those things. She couldn't have killed everyone like that. Especially not the only thing she had left and was her half. Not Feliciana. She had protected her since they were kids. It couldn't be possible that she would suck the life out of her. She killed the boy she was in love with. Was this the future that was to come? She had made the decision and she would face the demon king alone so that she couldn't hurt her friends.
She cried silently and she heard footsteps. She looked up to see Romana. Romana sat next to her and said, "Lovina, what did you see? Theirs is only an extent that I can read you". Lovina said nothing and held herself clenching her eyes shut as those images played over and over again. She stood up and wiped her tears away furiously. "We're leaving", Lovina said suddenly. Romana stood up confused, "leave where?" "I've decided to face the demon king on my own", Lovina said with no emotion.
Romana's eyes widened and she shook her head, "you can't do it on your own. Are you crazy?!" Lovina placed her fingers at the entrance of her lips and whistled. Latias came flying along with Dathos. "Dathos, leave now", Lovina said sternly. Dathos refused to move until Lovina yelled, "Dathos, leave!" Dathos flew away and it seemed to sadden Latias. "You don't want him to get hurt", Lovina whispered. Latios arrived seconds later and Romana got on quickly as Lovina parted rather fast. "Lovina, stop don't go alone. What did you see?" Romana asked again.
Lovina said nothing as tears had begun to fall down her cheeks again and she quickened her speed. Romana hesitated and in a brave and desperate move she shot Lovina on the back with dark energy. Lovina yelped in pain and fell unconscious falling off of Latias, "Catch her!" Romana yelled. Latias swooped down catching Lovina and flying to Romana. "Let's go back girl", she said looking at the unconscious Lovina with a worried expression.
~~xXXx~~
"Okay that's the last of them", Gilbert said wiped the sheet of sweat that had fallen down his forehead. Antonio saw Dathos descending. "Come on, we have to find Lovina", Antonio said desperately. They nodded, but suddenly looked up as Latias descended with a hurt Lovina and Latios with Romana. "What happened?" Antonio said running to carry Lovina in his arms. "I had to knock her out before she did something crazy", Romana explained. "What do you mean?" Feliciana asked. "I know she had a vision. Whatever she saw made her want to leave to face off the evil king alone", Romana said intrigued.
"Oh poor Lovi", Madeline broke in. Antonio sat down with Lovina in his arms and moved her bangs to the side. At that moment Lovina began mumbling in her sleep. "No, I can't be the one doing this", she mumbled. Antonio furrowed his eyebrows in worry and cooed her. "Shh…it's okay", he whispered rocking her. Her troubled expression seemed too slightly calm down, but she had begun to sweat. "She's getting a fever", Antonio said worriedly. Lovina thrashed a bit before she stood up gasping, "NO!" She began to sob and Antonio pulled her into his arms tightly, "Lovina, what's wrong with you?" he asked repeatedly when she didn't seem to respond and only continued to sob.
Feliciana kneeled down and placed a hand at Lovina's shoulder, "Lovi, please calm down". Lovina blinked suddenly and whispered, "Antonio, I'm so scared". "Don't be. You can't and won't face the demon king alone", Antonio said slightly sternly. "He's not the real danger", she whispered once more. Antonio just placed a finger at her lips and hugged her. She responded wrapping her arms around Antonio's neck. She neared his ear and whispered, "I'm sorry I have to do this. Itsu melanto". Antonio gasped and he fell asleep by the enchantment. Antonio fell back and the others stared as Lovina stood up. She looked at them and said in a louder tone stretching out her hand and fingers towards them, "Itsu Melanto!" They all fell to the ground with thumps even Romana.
Lovina picked up Romana and placed her gently on Latios. She kissed her three fingers and then pressed them against Antonio's lips. "Good bye Antonio", she mumbled and then went up to her sister and kissed her forehead. She got on Latias and ordered her and Latios to fly.
~~xXXx~~
"They defeated my minions. Shit! I want you damn Gridon to get me Lovina now!" Sadiq yelled. "Sire it won't be necessary. It seems your future queen is heading straight for us and apparently unprotected and with her shadow", the Gridon smirked. Sadiq seemed confused and went to a crystal orb that showed him any location. He seemed to calm down and walked to the orb.
"Show me, Lovina", he said watching the orb intently. The orb glowed slightly before clearing to show him Lovina on Latios in the sky. Next to her was indeed her shadow on her bird, but unconscious. "Excellent, she's such an easy target. I wonder what made her make such a rash decision, but let's check on the others. I don't think she would be dumb enough to go alone. Orb show me the others", he ordered. He had been wrong for he saw the others exactly how Lovina had left them. Unconscious and on the floor.
Sadiq grinned and laughed wickedly. "She slept them and took her shadow along. This will be the perfect opportunity to finally control her once more. Now thanks to the existence of her shadow escape would be futile. Soon she will finally be under my complete control and I will be the ultimate ruler of this pitiful world", he finished off thinking off the plan on his head. He sat on his throne and thought for a while before saying bring in the prisoners and place them in cages hanged from the ceiling in this very room", he ordered the Gridon. As he was speaking Bella and Elizabetha had come crawling. He snapped his fingers making them stand up and become just servants. "You two, clean up Lovina's chambers for her stay", he smiled.
They bowed and walked off and to the staircase of the sides. Sadiq couldn't wait for his princess to arrive.
~~xXXx~~
Romana began to stir from her sleep and sat up quickly. About to slip she clung to her loft wing. "Lovina, damn it! You're stubborn girl!" Romana yelled angrily positioning herself on top of Latios. "I have to do this before I hurt them", Lovina just responded. "Tell me what you saw", Romana said softly. Lovina said nothing at first and felt tears at her eyes.
She let one fall before saying, "I killed everyone. I killed Gilbert, Alice, Madeline, Alfred. I killed my Antonio and I killed my sister!" she cried out tears falling like waterfalls. Romana was taken aback. "Maybe you just thought it maybe we could avoid that", Romana told her or more of herself since she refused to believe Lovina would do that. "It is avoidable so that's why I did that", Lovina said spotting the castle of the demon king.
"I always thought he was my protector. He had always cared for me as a child. Sadiq would take me to ride horses and he thought me to make cures, but he only did it because he knew I was that delta and Feliciana the earth element. I mean he didn't care for me as much as Bella had, but it's still hard to imagine him having done that only for his ambition and his plan to dominate the world. I thought I was at least important to three people, but it seems I was tried to be used again", Lovina sighed sadly.
Romana couldn't help, but understand her. She was heartbroken when they had blamed her uncle of being evil. She could never imagine him being so caring and loving to them for only those to find out he had endangered his light self. She hadn't believed what they had said about him, but she felt ashamed that for a moment she had doubted the possibility that he was innocent.
"Well if you feel like this is what you want then I won't leave you alone. We'll face this together", Romana smiled. Lovina smiled back softly and nodded as they descended to the front of the doors. Romana came next to her pulling out a weapon she had been given just now by Lovina and nodded. "Okay guys get out of her and go to the others and don't get into any danger", Lovina shooed them.
The birds were hesitant, but flew away. They looked at the doors before pushing them opening expecting that whatever was behind the dark castle doors would attack them at any moment
~~xXXx~~
They had all soon stirred from their sleep sitting up in surprise and confusion as to what had just happened and how they had fallen asleep in exception of Antonio who knew exactly what had gone up. "Where's Lovina?" Madeline said in an extremely worried tone. "Damn it, must have been some shadow creatures that knocked us out and took Romana and Lovina", Alfred concluded. "No…" Antonio surprised them as he neared them with Dathos.
"What do you mean no?" Gilbert asked him. "Lovina was the one who did this to us. She had whispered sorry and followed by a spell. After that I felt my eye lids heavy and I felt her shuffle up. She must have taken Romana asleep as well otherwise Romana would have tried stopping her", Antonio explained to them.
"But why did she do that?" Feliciana asked teary eyed. "She is so determined to face the evil king alone. It must have been whatever vision she saw after the oath to order that Romana taught her. We should have known she would have tried to go alone again. She's in danger we have to save her before its too late", Antonio hurried them. "She took everything that could possibly lead us there", Gilbert interrupted. Ludwig saw Feliciana's anxious face and said, "Antonio is there anything we could use to track down Lovina?"
Antonio thought for a moment before he snapped his fingers in approval. "The feather!" he exclaimed taking out the feather that had always pointed the directions of the temple to them. "Maybe this can help us even when it's not a temple we're looking for. This is our only hope to stop the evil king from getting Lovina under his control again. Since Romana is coexisting in this world separated or together Lovina is the easiest target to control now. Okay feather point the way to Espania castle", Antonio whispered.
The feather didn't respond and Antonio looked slightly dejected, but suddenly it perked up and pointed east of their location. They all grinned in relief and nodded. They all called their birds and quickly directed themselves to the sky. They had no time to waste. "Antonio, they're going to be fine", Feliciana told him softly noticing he had a troubled expression as they flew. He nodded sadly trying to believe she would be right, but he could never be too sure.
Feliciana gasped as they all saw what seemed to be exact copy of their birds coming straight at them. They didn't necessarily look like they were slowing down and they didn't look friendly either. Feliciana was even more shocked too see their shadow's on them. 'But how? I thought they were on our side', she mentally screamed. She was taken out of her thought process as her shadow came next to her smirking. It seemed to send chills down her spine as she felt her gaze. She looked hungrily at her and was that…lust she saw in her eyes?
Feliciana looked at her for a moment her eyes widening. That's not my shadow? She thought to herself. The dark being had more intense red crimson eyes and her skin was tan unlike hers and even her shadow's. The being took her shock to an advantage and slammed her bird against hers causing Feliciana to fall. "Ahh!" Feliciana yelled as she began to fall. Ludwig panicked and almost reached her when his clone pushed him to the side. Feliciana feeling herself almost hit the ground clenched her eyes and yelled, "Aqures malento" before falling on a soft bush she had summoned.
She huffed in relief and stood up to wipe the leaves off before she whistled to her bird. About to get on she was thrown to the ground straddled by none other than her clone. The clone smiled down and slapped her followed by a punch. Feliciana felt the need to cry, but thought to herself 'I've faced harder things than this. I need to be brave for my…sister'. She narrowed her eyes and threw the clone off returning the blows she had given her.
Having her under her grip Feliciana asked her, "who are you?" the clone only smiled pushing her back and straddling her once more before answering, "Why I'm your darker self". Feliciana tried getting out of her grip failing before telling her, "You aren't Italy. You can't be my shadow". She received a slap in return. "Don't compare me to you stupid bimbo of a shadow. There is a clear difference between a shadow and dark side. Both of you are alike. Very pretty, but very stupid too. Maybe you should use that mouth and body of yours for other things rather than talking and fighting", the dark being laughed licking her lips.
"I rather you let me go", Feliciana tried maintaining her glare, but on the inside she was immensely scared. The being laughed wickedly, before taking out her knife. "You know, you'd look even prettier with your mouth shut so why don't we try to make you quiet for a change", the dark girl grinned before pressing the knife to Feliciana's throat. The being licked her lips leaning down to ghost over Feliciana's lips. "Now be a good girl and stay quiet for me", she grinned. 'Is she going to kiss me? That's sick!' Feliciana thought as the being was about to press her mouth to hers.
She had begun placing a kiss at her neck, and she whimpered feeling a tongue touch a delicate spot on her neck. The being had almost reached her lips when she was thrown by a sudden burst of flames. Feliciana shuffled hurriedly to her feet and ran to hug Ludwig who had saved her. "Feli, are you okay?" he asked rubbing of her neck. "I'm fine now", she whispered clutching tightly on to him. The dark Feliciana hissed in pain,"you imbecile potato you hurt me". "I say you leave right now before I decide to kill you", Ludwig warned. The being glared before disappearing in a dark cloud of smoke. "Come one let's go", Ludwig hurried Feliciana.
~~xXXx~~
Lovina and Romana were shocked at seeing everyone in cages just as they entered. "Lovina!" Romulus yelled. "Nonno!" Lovina called back. "Where are the others?" he asked. Lovina looked down and his attention was caught by Romana. "Romana?" he asked hesitantly. "How…" she began. "My shadow always talked about you and Italy a lot when we were partners", he smiled. Romana smiled softly and nodded. Suddenly both of them were pulled in by a dark tentacle. "Welcome my dears", Sadiq greeted them. Lovina positioned her bow and arrows at this as well as Romana. "I see this will have to come to a fight so why don't we begin"
Sadiq threw his cloak aside revealing his bare top half and black wings. He cracked his knuckled and his body seemed to be getting larger and his muscles expanded. They seemed to get a bit nervous with Sadiq's transformation, but maintained firm and in an attacking pose. Sadiq gave what seemed to roar. It was time to battle. They just hoped the two of them would be enough.
~~xXXx~~
"I see it come one we're close to getting there" Antonio informed them. They got off in front off the doors and they told their birds. "Now I want all of you to go to Lake Hylia with Catalina and Esperanza", Antonio said shooing them away. They were startled by an explosion inside and Antonio felt his stomach drop. They tried opening the doors, but they wouldn't even move an inch. "How do we open them?" Feliciana asked.
"I think it has a dark magic barrier I can take off", Alice suggested getting in front of the large doors. She raised her hands and moved them about before putting them down. "Okay I think it opened. It was a pretty simple spell", Alice thought out loud confused. They opened the doors running quickly and being blocked by another barrier. "Maybe it's possible we were intended to be able to open the doors...look!" gilbert yelled pointing in front of him. "Lovina..." Feliciana whispered scared.
"Ahh it seems the whole crew found us. I guess I can stop playing around now", Sadiq smiled. Lovina's eyes widened. He had been using not even his true strength while they were giving it their all. "Look what we manage to capture", Sadiq smiled pointing to the right to find. Feliciana's dark self holding onto Latias and Latios. "Let them go!" Lovina demanded. "I don't think so", the dark being laughed. "Lovina!" Antonio yelled. Lovina turned around distracted with Romana. Sadiq took the opportunity and grabbed them with a dark magic tentacle by the leg. It was covered in a slimy substance that began to travel around their whole bodies.
Their eyes dilated and they began to give choked gasps. They all looked horrified. The tentacle was alike the one from the shadow temple. It was sucking the life out of them. "You monster let her go!" Romulus yelled desperately. Sadiq just shook his head with a smile. That was the kind of feeling he wanted them to have. He waited until both Lovina and Romana fell slightly limp and weak and then the tentacle twirled them in the air and threw them against the barrier. They gave a scream in pain falling with a thump to the floor. Antonio got on his knees hitting the barrier with his fist. "LOVINA! ROMANA!" he yelled angrily. Alice continued to attack the barriers in tears along with Gilbert, but to no avail. Feliciana cried out as well yelling for both of them to run.
Lovina tried lifting herself up, but she fell again. Romana on the other couldn't even prop herself up. A set of black tentacles wrapped themselves around each of their wrist and lifted them up bringing them up to Sadiq. Sadiq summoned two ribbons one black one white. "Oh these are by far the greatest master piece. Like yin and yang opposites attract. Light for dark, dark for light they become one and are unbalanced. The ribbons floated slowly and wrapped around their necks. The white one for Romana, the black one for Lovina.
(1)He walked by as everyone stared to see what he would do with them. Sadiq shot two dark orbs to the ground and from the ground summoned a huge crystal in the middle of both of what now formed two circles with symbols in them. Lovina was placed above one Romana above the other. Sadiq placed his hand above the crystal and it was as if something was gripping them tightly so they wouldn't fall to the floor. The invisible force had begun to squish them too hard and they had begun to scream in pain. Feliciana, Romulus, and Antonio seemed to be going in a fit and they began to yell their hearts out. Sadiq closed his hand over the crystal and Lovina and Romana gave the worst scream in pain before there was a flashing light.
Crystal: so from here it could be two or three more chapters till the ending. Thanks for continuing to support this story
Lovina: yeah, I guess
Antonio: gracias! :D
(1) this Is a reference to one of the fan-made Hetalia games. I'm not sure which one but I think it was HetaSparkle. I DO NOT OWN THAT GAME just so yall know it was only a reference to it
See you guys next time on another episode of gypsy heart! XD lol I always wanted to say that and sorry for the delay :/