The Fallen Two
Chapter 11: The Amazons and the Lock
April O'Neil's Point of View:
I couldn't believe the condition of the guys once we came back and saw them. We'd still been searching for the Gems of Darkness on our own when we were finally radioed that they had been collected, but Jasmine and Sora had been turned evil and to get them to turn back, we have to find the Gems of Darkness all over again and destroy them. Six of them were out of the way now, but one was actually on Hell, where the girls were living, and to make matters worse, Skeleton King, Shredder, Hun and Mandarin had been brought back to life and were most likely going to be there to stop us.
There were only three possible gems that we could go after at a time like this, and that was the Emerald Lock, that apparently Sora had sent off when the guys found it the last time, the Topaz Pit and the Diamond Temple. Unsure of which one we would encounter first, we were supposed to split up into teams and find and destroy the gems one by one, and with all the allies back, it would make the teams larger to all take on an enemy at once.
Most of the others were out of condition for a while, even with Raph healing them and himself, but they should have been taken care of by the time the last three gems are found and destroyed. So while we didn't have a whole lot of time, we still had some.
Nova, Otto, Sprx and Tiffany had some of the fewest wounds that were already healed and taken care of since they had just fought off the servants which were no worse then the common Foot solider or… I believe Jasmine had once called them 'Formless', the foot soldiers of Skeleton King. But either way, they were joining us.
To make things more interesting, we actually had an all female team to go after the first Gem of Darkness that we located, Tiffany and Nova included. Our team consisted of myself, Karai, Nikita, Alianna, Aurora Six, the only female warrior from SoturixSeven (she preferred that we called her Mali, an old nickname of hers) and like I had mentioned before, Nova and Tiffany. We had speed, stealth and power on our side, what exactly could go wrong?
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"Oh, nothing will go wrong… bleh! Look at us now!" Alianna hissed as we all huddled together while in the middle of a rainstorm on the planet where the supposed Gem of Darkness was to be. The planet's name was called Pluie Torrentielle, or rainstorm in definition. The planet is nearly always raining with little sunshine, so plants that do well with a lot of water but little to no light go very well here. But even so, the gem had sent the plant's water cycle into overdrive absorbing large quantities of water and down pouring them onto the surface in a never ending cycle, giving us no chance to move abound and find the gem.
"Relax girl, we'll get through this." Tiffany said, trying to cheer up the mood. "We might be in the middle of a rainstorm, but we're really close to the gem now."
"We should move quickly and go after the gem now, the weather may prohibit our actions further with more destructive natural occurrences should we wait any longer." Karai said over the howling winds.
"And we must find a way around that wall." Mali noted. "But we have few options, we can not destroy it, we cannot fly over it, there is no end to it. How do we get by it?"
"We'll go over it without our rocket packs." I said, standing out of the bushes we concealed ourselves in. "Karai and I can throw most of you over the wall and then Nova and Tiffany can lengthen their tails so we can be pulled up when you are on top of the wall. Once we're over the wall, we should be able to move forward with no problem and find the gem."
"We better hurry then, because the storm is getting stronger, meow." Nikita purred worriedly. "If the wind gets much stronger then they already have become, we will not be able to fly over the wall, we would only be pushed back."
"Then what are we waiting for girls? We need to get going and prove that we can be strong too, we don't need a guy around to do things for us." Nova snorted and hurried out of our somewhat cover of the bushes.
"Wait up for me Nova!" Tiffany shouted before the rest of us girls chased after the two robotic monkeys and we reached the wall. Karai and I hurried over to it and sent the others over one by one, starting with the robot monkeys with them being the lightest and for them to help us over the wall from on top of it. Karai and I sent up the others one by one by using the strength of two of us with our fists combined to have more strength behind our throws. Nova and Tiffany caught them on the way up and pushed them over to the other side where apparently they landed safely and waited on it, Nova and Tiffany never gave us any indication that anything was wrong or that any bad guys were coming.
"You go next Karai, I'll go last." I told her.
"Are you sure April?" She hesitated as she questioned me.
"I'll be fine; I'll be up there after you in just a few seconds." She nodded and I cupped my hands for her to step into and I gave her an extra boost up to the top of the wall where Nova caught her and the two of them went to the other side. Tiffany was about to lengthen her tail for me to grab onto when the wind suddenly got stronger and she was nearly thrown over to my side of the wall. She screamed and I saw Nova's tail come up and latch around her waist from on the opposite side and Tiffany was only then able to steady herself with the harsh wind.
Her tail slowly came down to me, blowing a bit out of my reach due to the wind, but I jumped and grabbed it quickly enough when it came closer to me. I gripped her tail tightly and I felt Tiffany really struggling to pull me up.
"Sorry! I swear this isn't because of weight or anything! I'm just not used to anyone using my tail to be pulled over a wall with! And it hurts more then you think!" Tiffany cried out but Nova and the others must have been helping her out on the other side since I soon made it to the wall while Tiffany was now on the ground. I threw my legs over and leapt to the ground.
With all of us on the other side of the wall we hurried into the deepest and windiest part of the forest. It was almost to the point where we couldn't see where we were moving toward. All I knew was that soon enough, we had to grab onto each other for leverage to get keep moving forward in this gust.
Then all of a sudden, the wind totally stopped. I rubbed my eyes and looked up at the world around me. We'd somehow ended up in a cavern that blocked off all the wind, but inside you could feel a dark presence. All of us had made it and Aurora pulled out a tracker that Johnny had given her.
"It seems we have made it to the correct area, the gem should be just up ahead in this cavern." The woman said, put the tracker in one had to look at while grabbing her gun.
"But what could be waiting with it?" Alianna questioned. "There's always something guarding the gems no matter where we go, or anything of value in someone's perspective."
"We can probably expect it to be one of the newest heavy hitters in this game." I told them. "Jasmine revived Skeleton King, Shredder, Mandarin and Hun all from the grave, at least one of them has to be here guarding whatever gem is here, and using his new powers of darkness as well."
"How right you are, girl…" We all froze when we heard that voice, we knew it, I've heard it before and there appeared the beast. The skeleton like creature walked around on its four legs, the newly evolved version of Skeleton King stood before the gem. I saw it right behind him; it was the Emerald Lock, sitting quite happily atop of a pile of rocks. Skeleton King suddenly blocked it and grinned. "You'll have to get past me to get to that gem!"
"Gladly, ladies, lets do this!" With a battle cry out of all of us, we charged forward toward the evil beast made purely of darkness. Our wave was our fastest runners, which included Nikita, myself, Aliana and Karai. Once we came to a certain distance though, Skeleton King swung his tail at us and the force knocked us back to the beginning of the cave. We quickly got back our feet and rushed at him again just as the rest of the girls had reached him and started to attack, doing little to no damage.
"Shit!" Nova cried out his claws sliced up next to her. She lost part of her tail and a finger or two, but thankfully was able to avoid most of the swipe Skeleton King made at her.
Nikita came from the back with the sword of her brother's that she borrowed. Her speed was faster then his at the moment when he was distracted with Nova and she took a swipe at him, only managing to hit the side of his tail. He grinned through his fangs and whatever piece she cut off grew back in no time at all. Most of us were frozen in place while we watched the event take place.
"Oh my God…" Tiffany sobbed from off to the side as she watched him fast approach us.
"Tiffany!" I shouted, but it was too late. Tiffany was hit head on with both of Skeleton King's claws that devoured her chest. It was littered with deep slashing marks like that from a blade. She screamed as she hit the floor and all the rest of us charged forward at that second toward him.
He proved our efforts unhelpful again when we were all thrown back, all but Tiffany who he hung over while she withered in agony. His paw suddenly came smashing down on her chest and more blood gushed from her as her ear piercing scream shattered all our ear drums.
"TIFFANY!" Nova screamed and rushed at the evil creature with her anger at full force. Even Skeleton King could not have protected himself from Nova's attack in all her fury. Her body turned ablaze and she breathed fire at him before she send punch after punch at him, filled with blazing fire that over time turned white from getting so much hotter then it had been before.
I finally thought that we had a chance and I pulled Karai down next to me. "Karai, listen, we don't have much time, Nova could be sent flying any minute if Skeleton King gets the chance. Get the sai and destroy the gem, it may weaken his power or at least give us a better fighting chance!" The woman nodded to me without another word and took off with the weapon toward the back chamber, being closely sure that the undead creature would not be able to see her scurrying about in the dark edges of the cave.
Turning my attention back to the others, we watched as Nova continued to have at Skeleton King, screaming at him the entire time. I wouldn't be surprised if she lost her voice for a while after this. I looked up at some of the other girls and saw Mali looking my way, she signed to me: 'what do we do now?'
'Get Tiff out of there', I signed back to the woman. She nodded and jumped from shadow to shadow of the room until she got before the broken monkey who was no longer conscious. I watched her pick her up carefully in her arms before making a run for it while Skeleton King threw Nova off him and into the wall. His eyes glow red and a black aura appeared around him before the creature cried out and sent a beam of black energy from its mouth at the large group of us across the chamber. I saw Mali duck and cover Tiffany with her body before the blast hit. Multiple screams erupted around us all, I think even I screamed, but it was hard to remember with the mass of chaos and blood that scattered across most of the floors and walls.
I saw Aurora was one of the very few that escaped the blast. She stood shakily off to the side as she watched many of our comrades bloodied figures across the ground, some of which I remembered weren't breathing…
Skeleton King only laughed at us as we withered and died before his eyes. "You pathetic beings, you honestly thought you had a chance to stop me?" He leapt over the large gap of scattered rock and ash and landed right where Mali and Tiffany were. Mali still protected her with what little she had left of her body as it drained itself of all its blood and the skin burned and fell off, exposing the muscles underneath that shouldn't be exposed.
Skeleton King lifted his paw over both their heads.
"It's all over now!"
The paw lowered.
"KARAI!" I screamed.
"I GOT IT!" I turned my head to the sound of her voice in the back of the cave; I saw she was there, the crystal right before her. She raised her arms with the sai in her hands over the gem. Skeleton King followed my gaze while tears slipped from my eyes.
"NO!" He screeched and charged for the other side of the cave where she stood. Karai hit the gem with the powered sai. It shattered into the tiniest pieces of gem and from it came the remaining power that connected it to Chaos and the girls. Skeleton King screamed as power was ripped out from inside him and Aurora went of the offensive, firing off her gun at him to try and push him back.
"YOU DAMN BRATS!" Skeleton King growled and leapt at Aurora, ready to strike her down and kill. Aurora screamed and turned away from him, shielding herself from this arm.
"That's enough you ungrateful creature." A bright light shown before us and I watched as its sparkles fell to all of us. Skeleton King screamed when they came close to him and his body acted to them as if they were acid to skin, while I felt a healing property to them and watched as our wounds slowly sealed and healed. I heard screams from all over as girls came back to life from that of the limbo world where they had yet to fully die and pass on. Their cries of pain were almost music to my ears after seen them totally take out and destroyed.
From the light above came the woman that was our savior. Light hovered above and she herself emitted a glowing that Skeleton King seemed to hate and hissed at it while backing further into the darkness. "You are done here, monster, I will take these children and take my leave. Try and harm them as I do so and it will be your end that comes."
Skeleton King disregarded everything she said and charged at her anyway, screeching and growling, ready to fight once again. As if we'd done no damage at all to him.
Light sighed and brought her hand forward, holding out before her body as if to stop them. From that had come a white fire that exploded as it came from her hand and hit Skeleton King head on. He cried out in pain but refused to call it over. He continued to charge and threw a claw over her head to strike. As he brought down his claws however, Light somehow disappeared and evaded his attack, ending up on the other side of the room. I felt earth below me shake and vines emerged before latching onto his body and constricting it. He was thrown to the ground and managed to have one arm escape the hold and sent a black beam at light. She easily deflected it and threw it off to the side.
"Your dark powers disgust me." Her face turned angry and hard before I saw a mouth appear on her skin, turning into fangs and another blast of white fire escaped, much stronger and larger then before that filled the entire cave. When the blast was gone I actually noticed that her body had gained some strange appendages, just like that of Jasmine's and Sora's right now, but they were all white. She had talons, claws, a tail, wings, it wasn't like she was a devil's reincarnation, it was like she'd taken on features of a dragon! Her purple eyes glowed and she roared in anger before she flew right at Skeleton King, flying her body right through the middle of his own and grabbing onto his dark heart. She bit into it and out gushed a black ooze like blood and Skeleton King screamed in agony and pain. Light didn't give up there though…
She tore it in half.
Skeleton King froze after that, his screams were silenced and he fell to the ground. His body turned into a dark aura like smoke that lifted off the ground and flew out of the cave, and didn't look back. With our wounds healing, I was able to push myself up against a rock and looked over at Light. I felt my body become lighter and suddenly I was in the air, as was all the other girls. Light held out a hand that brought us forward toward her in this dragon form and we hovered around her, no control over anything, and ever so tired.
"Rest my dear warriors, you have fought an fearsome battle today, you deserve it. I will return you to your 'robot'." I felt the blackness surround my vision and I fell into the deep blackness from all the events that had taken their toll on me.
Desdemona's Point of View:
A clench suddenly came over my heart as knew what this dreading and painful feeling was, the darkness was another gem down, the Emerald Lock was gone, nothing more then shattered remains of a powerless gem. Our power was disappearing, our skin lightening, a few times I've even seen my eyes reverting back to their purple color, as well as my sister's to her brown, the red is fading, as the gems are.
Only three remain…
"Forgive me my Mistress, I would have stopped them, had Light not intervened." My servant was before me in my chamber where I assessed his battle. My eyes were hard as I gazed upon him. My sister quietly sat in her own throne and waited the events unfold, as did our other servants who were watching what I would do to him.
"And yet, even if Light hadn't come to aid them, they still managed to destroy the Emerald Lock before she even arrived." I watched his body stiffen from my words, but he didn't move from his bowed position. "The human woman named Karai was able to destroy it while you were distracted, you didn't pay attention-"
"Mistress, if I may-"
"DO NOT INTERUPT ME!" My shrilling cry echoed on the walls and silenced him. "You have no right to speak at this moment! You lost your focus on the battlefield, resulting in another gem to be destroyed. Our power and your own is weakening due to your failure!"
"Nee-chan?" Nyxaray questioned me softly. "What shall we do with him?"
"I can not afford to waste my power on him in the condition I'm in. My dear little sister, do what you think should be done." My sister grinned and cackled and used her powers (or at least what she had left) to leap into the air and grab onto Skeleton King. The floor turned to ooze below them and down they sank, Skeleton King crying out the entire way as she dragged him under.
I looked to the other three servants I had left. "The rest of you had better not disappoint me like he has. Go to the remaining two plants and retrieve the Gems of Darkness for me, and should they be destroyed, do not return without the head of whoever destroyed it."
"Yes Mistress." They bowed. "What pair would like to go together?"
"Hun and Mandarin, the two of you seemed to do well in the past, so I shall leave it like that. Now be gone, I am tired and in need of rest for myself and my child." They all turned to shadows and faded into the walls and left my chamber. I sighed and walked to the bed and lay down.
Things needed to be ended soon, or else we'd all be destroyed…
Witch's Note:
Okay, I know most if not all of you guys probably hate me for taking so long, but at least I finally got it done right? I could tell you excuses about how school and life got in the way, but I don't want to bore you with my first chapter in over a month. So, again, I'm sorry to all of you for being so late, but we'll try to do better, and don't worry about us finishing the story, I'd rather slit my throat first (I won't really do that, but I promise this story will be finished before the year is over!)
So anyway, if you all don't hate me too much, please leave a Review and Questions for Greka and myself! I love you all! Please don't hate me too much and I'll see you with Greka's chapter next time when she manages to get it done!
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