Chapter 14:
Happily (Almost) Ever After
Allie's POV...
It's about midnight. Cooper and I are heading to the clearing where we first fought, to fight Derick and Jasmine. Yes, Jasmine survived. Damn bitch.
This will be the final fight. The finale. The End. The, well, you get the point. I hope.
Jet and Mai are on our side, but I heard that Derick and Jasmine teamed up with a vampire named Eric, and a werewolf named Rose. We're evenly matched, and whoever loses dies. Whoever wins lives to take that super hard math test in Algebra. Joy.
Cooper's POV...
We're heading to the clearing to where Jasmine and I first fought. We'll be fighting Derick, Jasmine, Eric, and Rose. Eric and Rose are new, and would mean that Allie and I are outnumbered, but Jet and Mai are on our side.
This is the big fight. We're fighting for keeps. You win, you live. You lose, you die. Of course, that does mean you get to take that you're-sure-to-fail math test so...
Allie's POV...
The moonlight shone on the blood-stained grass. I knelt over the dead body, and wept. Alive one minute, dead the next. Here's what happened...
"You're here." Derick said.
"No shit." I retorted.
Jasmine had a creepy smile on her face. "Shall we kill them?"
"Yes. Let's." Eric hissed.
I ran towards Jasmine, transforming as I did. I dodged her claws, jumped behind her, and slashed at her back with my swords. She whipped around, and caught them in her claws. We both pressed forward, trying to break the other's grip on our weapons, before jumping back, and charging again. She swung one claw at my head, but I blocked with one sword, and blocked the other claw with my second sword. Then, I twisted, throwing her to the side. She landed on her back, and I slammed my foot down on her stomach, momentarily paralyzing her, and preparing to drive my swords through her heart. Her eyes widened, and she transformed, wriggling out from underneath my foot. She circled back, and jumped at me. I tried to block, but I was too late. She scratched my cheek and arm, but I elbowed her in the gut, knocking her back down. She turned back into a human, and we circled each other, searching for weaknesses. I spotted that she left her left leg open, so I kicked towards her gut, lowering it to her leg at the last second. I knocked her feet out from under her, but she managed to slash the back of my thigh on the way down. It distracted me for a second, and she got back up. So I simply hit her square in the forehead with the hilt of my sword. She went down and didn't come back up. I plunged my sword through her chest, and turned towards Cooper and Derick's fight.
Derick had Cooper pinned down, and was about to slash his throat with a knife, but Mai suddenly jumped in the way. Derick slashed open her stomach, and she fell on Cooper. I ran towards Derick, and he turned around to meet my attack. He had two knives, and he slashed them at my head. I made my swords into an "X", blocking his knives, and then plunged my bottom sword into her stomach, cutting across.
Jet had finished off Eric, while Mai had just got through with Rose. Jet had a gash in his side, and his right arm was badly cut. He walked over beside us.
Cooper had a gash across his chest and thigh, and a bad bruise on his cheek. He laid Mai down, and I knelt beside her. She was already dead. She had sacrificed herself for us. She was my best friend, and now she was dead because we had dragged her into this. I cried openly, as did Jet and Cooper. I would never forget what she did for us...
Cooper's POV...
It's been two days since the fight. The police believe that Eric, Derick, Rose and Mai had gone on a camping trip, and had run into a vicious mountain lion. We held Mai's funeral yesterday. I will never forget what she did for me.
We certainly haven't lived happily ever after. Our friends are dead or wounded, and we all failed the math test. But hopefully, now we'll be able to live as normally as possible.
And so we lived, Happily (Almost) Ever After.