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Disclaimer: I don't own Pandora Hearts
Note: Bold+Italics = Flashback
Chapter 11 – Echoes From the Two
"Hey twin witch…" A cruel smile on his face, the bloodlust eyes froze the twins in their hiding.
"Echo!"
The man took his sword and thrust it into Zwei's left arm, "Die! DIE! I'll make you die slowly and painfully! HAHAHAHAHAHA!" He laughed and moved the sword around, making the wound bigger.
"AAAAAGGGGHHHH!" Zwei shouted withstanding the pain. The man took his sword out from the wound and made another stance to attack her.
"Z-Zwei!" Echo panicked, she grabbed Zwei's arm hoping that it would stop bleeding, but it was useless, "Somebody help!" she shouted, the heartless blonde man stared at her with his red and golden eyes, he heartlessly stabbed Zwei in her other arm. Zwei gritted her teeth hoping that the pain would be gone, but it couldn't. "Stop it," Echo shouted, "Please stop, don't hurt her… no, just kill Echo if you want, but don't hurt Zwei anymore!"
"Echo?" Lottie somehow heard the voice, "It's definitely Echo! She's in trouble… Hey, boy, you look for Alice! I'll go look for those twins."
"Eh? Okay…"
Vincent looked at her eyes and touched her chin he kicked Zwei away from Echo right on her lower abdomen, she landed 3 meters away, the blood painted the ground in straight line, "Oh, my, look how nice you are." The blade cuts through her cheek, blood dripped out from the wound. "Makes me want to play with you…"
"Stop it you jerk!" Zwei shouted, she threw a blade at him, but unfortunately since her arm was hurt, she missed.
"Oh, do you want to die that badly?" Vincent moved his blade and it cut through Echo's left arm.
"AAHHH!" Echo screamed, blood flowed out from the wound. Fortunately it was still attached.
He then turned to face Zwei, "See… I'll make your most precious person die and torture you from inside and out."
"Stop it you bastard, if you want to kill me… stop hurting my sister." She shouted and stood up. She used her water magic and controlled her blood into a blade. She charged the man and slashed him. Unfortunately, all she could cut was the man's long hair, nothing more, yet Vincent had managed to make a few scrapes on her body.
"Zwei!" Echo tried to stand up, she used her magic to turn her blood into ice and threw it at the man. It was about to hit him when he took a gun with his right hand and shot at them.
"It's futile to resist, witches." He smiled. He knocked the blade in Zwei's hand and held his sword up. Zwei lost her balance.
"Zwei…" Echo ran toward her twin.
"No, Echo! Don't come here, get out from this place!" Zwei said as she was fighting with the man in the center of the house, it would be easy for Echo to escape through the back door that way. But Echo decided that it would be better to die along with her twin.
SLASH!
A vertical slash through the left part of the body, Vincent slashed his prey. Zwei fell to the ground, Echo ran toward her sister. She held her dying sister close to her, "Zwei…" Echo's tears fell down to Zwei's cheek.
"You're… so… stubborn, eh? E…cho…" Zwei said between her breath. She touched Echo's hair and said, "If you're… still alive… then I… am glad…" Tears fell down from her eyes.
"No, don't die, Zwei!" Echo screamed, "No… I don't want to lose you, Zwe –"
BAM
Vincent kicked Echo to the wall, so hard that some of her ribs broke. "Zwei…"
"Oh, my… what a tragedy… Hahahahaha!" He laughed happily. And walked past Zwei's body. Zwei looked at him with her fierce eyes, which she had been having trouble keeping them open. "Don't you want to go to the afterlife with her, I think you would be happy to, right?" Vincent walked closer to Echo and… thrust his sword forward.
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"Arghh…"
"Sigh, I can't have enough of your persistence, witches, even if you keep your twin alive, it would only be for a few seconds." Vincent smiled again.
"Zwei…!" Echo looked at her with her eyes, Zwei was standing in front of her, a sword past Zwei's chest, protecting her from the blow.
"Cough…" She coughed up blood and started falling into the ground, her eyes had lost almost all of their light, Echo tried to stand up and walked up weakly to her, she hugged her twin.
"Zwei…"
"Live… Echo…" She said her last words and finally closed her eyes with a smile on her face.
"Hahahahaha!" Vincent laughed madly, he took his gun and pointed it at her, "You're next, go meet your twin in the afterlife!" He shot. The bullet, it hit her left abdomen and made her lost consciousness, he was about to aim at the head when a blinding light flashed from the twins' bodies.
"Hey, Echo… Let's play more!" Zwei took Echo's hand and took her to the forest.
"You can't play too much, Zwei, Echo…" The face of their parents, Echo could see it clearly now. A gentle face they had, their love for their children, "It's already too late."
"But… I want to play more with Echo." Zwei protested.
"Echo too…" Echo said to their parents.
"Tomorrow okay? I'm sure you will have more fun with your friends tomorrow." Their mother said.
"But… Alice isn't coming tomorrow." Zwei said, "She has a fever."
"You can still play with Sharon, Leo, Ada, Lottie and Elliot." Their father said, "They'll be here tomorrow, Zwei."
"A-Alright… then…" She said, "Fine, let's go to sleep, Echo." Zwei and Echo walked to their room.
The next day…
"Echo, Zwei, let's play!" Elliot shouted all the way from outside.
"Wait, Echo is still sleeping!" Zwei shouted back, "Echo, Echo, wake up!" Zwei shook her body.
"Hnn…? Echo is sleepy…" Echo said as she got up from her sleeping position.
"Let's play, Echo."
"Hmm… yeah…"
It was just like today, that day… it all seemed… like the end.
BOOM!
"What's that sound!?" Elliot asked.
"Explosion?" Leo asked, "That's… AHHH!"
SLASH!
"Leo, Echo, Zwei, Elliot, Ada, Lottie get back!" Young Fang was standing in front of them with sword on his hand.
"Get back, children." Lacie and Sherry said.
"Mother…? What happened?" Sharon asked.
"Just get away from here, Sharon!" Her mother said.
"Echo! Zwei! Their parents came running. A soldier was chasing behind them, a blonde haired soldier with emerald eyes. He pointed the gun at the two of them.
BANG! BANG! BANG!
"No!" Their father jumped at in front of them, the bullets went though his body and ended his life. When they opened their eyes, there was their father protecting them from the blow. Echo and Zwei cried, they were still too young to lose their father.
"Lacie! Sherry! Do we have to do it?" She asked.
"Unfortunately, we have to." Lacie answered, "Wait for a moment. Where's Rachel?"
"I'm here, Lacie, and I've got an earth witch, we can start anytime soon…" Rachel suddenly came with another person.
"You can handle him for a while." She said, "I still have something to do…"
"Do it fast, Lacie, we can't hold him for long!" The earth mage, Lottie's mother shouted.
"I know…" She answered she walked toward the twins, "Echo… Zwei… look at me…" As she said so, Echo and Zwei looked at her with their eyes, "Your father is still alive, he is wandering somewhere…" She said, the children looked at her as if they were hypnotized. "Your mother died giving birth to you… nothing is caused by you… you are not guilty…" She said and touched their head, after saying the spell, the twins looked at her with their blank expression and said nothing.
"Thank you, Lacie…" Echo's and Zwei's mother thanked her, "Bye-bye, Echo… Zwei…"
"I see… you're kind, Lacie…" Sherry said to her and turned her head to her daughter, "Please be strong, Sharon…" She looked at her daughter's eyes and said, "Take a good care of the young ones. I'm sure… someday, peace will come."
"Mother…" Sharon tried to reach her mother but Fang stopped her, he held all the children close to him, hoping that he could somehow be a shield for them.
"See you, Lottie, you can live without me, right? Look after your friends." Her mother said, "I'll see you in the afterlife, I hope not too soon." She joked.
"Don't joke about it, mom. You know… sob… I'll live… Don't underestimate me damn it!" Lottie shouted while crying, "I'll… make sure you'll be lonely there for a while."
"Ada, goodbye…" Rachel said to her daughter.
"Mom, mom!" She burst into tears.
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"Echo!" Lottie came, upon seeing the light. Right after she saw the man, hatred bloomed from her heart as she immediately knew what had happened, more or less. She used her magic and turned the roof of the house into a large boulder.
"Gah!"
"Die you psycho!" She shouted. She crushed the man under the weight of the house's roof.
"Damn! Hehe! Hahahahahaha! What a fierce woman" He ran out from the place although his face was already beyond recognition, and his arm crushed under the boulder.
"Wait, you bastard!" She cursed. But decided that it would be wise to let him go as saving the two was her first priority, "I'll remember your face!" She shouted, but the man had already run far from the place. Lottie ran toward the twins. "Echo! Zwei!" Lottie kneeled down to the unconscious twins, she looked their face, blood stained their white hair and their clothes, it was crimson everywhere. She touched them, no reaction, not even the sound of their breath could be heard even though the village was already so silent, "No… Zwei… Echo… Wake up! Don't joke around with me…!" Tears came down from her eyes as she realized that they were gone, "Why…? Why!? This is unfair!"
"Lottie! What's wro –" Sharon gasped after seeing the two, "Zwei… Echo…" She almost fainted at the sight of the blood around her.
"They're gone, Sharon." She said looking down, "I was too late…"
"No way…" Sharon cried and fell down to her knees; Break looked down and tried to comfort the girl.
"L…lot…i…" Echo tried to open her eyes with all her remaining strength, but it would only last for a few seconds before she lost her consciousness again.
"E-Echo…?" They both said in unison.
"Sharon! She's still alive!" Lottie said.
Sharon immediately ran to Echo, she took bandages and other medical items out and said, "Lottie, Break, you guard this place. I'll handle her."
"Right!" They said
"I have to be fast, please be alive, Echo…"
A/N: I have a new story coming up... Please read (If you don't mind)
