Oh yeah! I've been waiting for this moment a long time, Felix versus Alex! My money's on the man who just had the love of his life murdered right before his eyes. This will most certainly be epic. *smiles like the evil madman that he really is*
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Chapter 25: V for...
Nothing is more morbid then seeing the girl of you dreams in the arms of another man, especially when she's dead. Her body fell to the ground in a hauntingly heavy heap. Alex left his arms out in he air, as if he too was stunned by what had just occurred. I could still hear her calling out my name, but her voice began to fade as my core burned in a fire that threatened my control. My white knuckled death grip became so great that Hades had to pull me off of the fence, I heaved him away, callously tossing aside his charity as I was immune to anything but hatred.
"Alex!" I roared, my being erupted in rage, and the monstrous Eraser in me exploded. He spun around to find me on all fours, claws digging into the sandy ground, fangs exposed, ready to rip his flesh from his bones. For a mere moment I thought I saw a flash of fear, but it was dissolved in his own rage, blinded by his blood lust. I ran at him, tearing my way through the fence as though it was nonexistent. I jumped at him and he leaped off to the side. I ran at him, swinging a paw, aiming for a lethal strike. He ducked and tackled me to the ground, he kicked me in the side and I got to my feet as quickly as I could.
All of my hate for him was flowing freely now. All of those threats were coming back. Every time one of us said 'bite me' flashed in my mind, this was it. There was no turning back, one of us wasn't leaving this room alive, and I knew for a fact that it wasn't going to be me. Not after I had lost everything. He began laughing at me, as though he had been anticipating this, itching for the time when we final settled everything.
He charged at me and stopped just short of my arm's reach, he swung his right leg trying to kick me in the ribs. I grabbed his leg mid swing and twisted, making him crash into the ground. I leaped on him and punched him in the side if the head once, twice, and finally I broke his nose. Being an Eraser it was odd seeing blood run out of a snout, but Alex was completely blinded by his rage, and shook off the pain as his dark red blood ran in a small stream from his now crooked snout. He slashed at my chest, and in the process of dodging I got off him, he took the opportunity to get to his feet and he ran at me again, he swung with his left paw, catching my right shoulder and making me spin from the force. He growled as a drop of my blood hit the sand.
"Come on! Surely this isn't all you've got Big Bad. Especially after I've killed your friends." A simple grammatical error, and yet it meant the world to me. Friends. Phoenix and Odin. He had killed them both! My mind was temporarily thrown back to that fateful day in Siberia, that blow couldn't have killed Odin, he was tougher then that, Alex must have shot him! I roared at him, and he laughed at the display.
I charged at him like a mad bull, throwing a punch with my left paw, and a slash with my right. I was aiming for him chest, but somehow he was evading every blow I was throwing. He got inside my reach and kicked me in the sternum, knocking me on my jumped on me and pinned me just like how I had pinned him.
"I'm going to kill you!" I barked at him. It was no threat, it was a promise. He looked down, madness just behind his icy cold gaze.
"Bite me." He hissed in my face. His paw was on my shoulder, I threw my head to the side and clamped down on his wrist, my fangs breaking through skin, flesh, sinew, and finally cracking bone. Alex howled at the unexpected assault and reared back, swatting at the back of my head with his good hand making me black out for a second while he got up. I got to my feet and steadied myself. The world was still spinning but I could see that his hand had gone limp.
His glacier eyes shot fiery darts at me, but they were sparks compared to the wild fire that burned me to the core. I wanted to make him suffer, make him beg for a mercy that would never come. I wanted him to lose it all, lose everything that he ever felt anything for. He had robbed me of the two most important people in my life, the closest thing I ever had to a family, he took it all away! He didn't deserve to live a moment longer, not as long as I continued to draw breath he couldn't exist.
Alex ran at me and swung with his dead hand and slashed at me with the other. I swatted away the menacing paw, and grabbed his already shattered wrist, I twisted one way and then sharply in the opposite direction. He screamed in raw blistering agony and ripped at my exposed side, shredding my suit and tearing bloody gashes on my rib cage. They burned about as bright as a match compared to me, I felt as though fire was going to shoot out of my eyes. It was his icy cold disposition against the raging hatred blazing inside me. I kicked him in the core, and then punched him in the head again, ripping open his skin at the eyebrow. He fell back readied himself and did a roundhouse kick, I simply stepped back out of his range and ran at him, kicking him in the chest, he couched up blood as he fell. He took the momentum and turned it into a back flip and as he landed on his feet he popped the knuckles in his good hand.
This fight had been years in the making, and neither one of us was going to back down, no matter the cost. Hades looked on at us dumbfounded by it all, mouth agape at the horrific spectacle that was unfolding itself before his eyes. My gaze shot only for a painful moment at Phoenix, her lifeless body still on the battlefield. I growled at Alex, letting the eraser in my show it's true personality, an untamed beast of pure malice and unrestrained power.
We ran at each other, Alex threw a punch and I caught his fist in the middle of the swing. I tore away at his chest leaving three long bloody tears in him, identical to the ones in my nightmare. He kneed me in the stomach and then kicked my freshly bruised core. I fell forward, catching him in the shoulder and threw him face first into the ground. I got to my feet and kicked him in the head until he blacked out. I stopped not wanting it to end so easily. I wanted to see the life in his eyes go out like a candle, silent and swift. He got to his knees, blood dripping from his mouth, nose, and eye brow. He looked at me in the eye, his cold glacial gaze began to melt into blood lust. He wanted me dead as much as I wanted him dead. He got to his feet, his bad hand hanging off to the side. He began to growl at me and he actually looked angry. He wasn't himself, just the way he was acting, this was what he was truly like as an Eraser. No wonder Alister's men didn't stand a chance.
"If you don't have the spine to end this then I will!" He yelled as he ran at me like an animal, on all fours. He was numb to the pain in his bad hand and he began throwing punches with it again, not caring what happened. He pounced on me, knocking me to the ground, I kneed him in the stomach and gnashed at the base of his uncovered neck. He let loose a blood curdling roar inches away from my face as my fangs sunk into the base of his neck. He got up and stomped on my chest, I coughed up a fleck of blood. I punched him in the side of the knees and he dropped to his other knee. I managed to get to my feet and land a blow to the back of his head. He got back on his feet and spit blood at me, followed by a sickening smile.
I threw a punch but he grabbed my arm and sank his fangs into my forearm. His fangs went between the bones, grasping my arm in his vice like mandibles. I kicked him in the knee and he released my arm and I finished the punch knocking him to the ground. I pinned him to the ground and grabbed his shoulders.
"You've taken everything from me! My friends, my family!" I slammed his head up and down again and again, each succeeding time harder then the last. His eyes opened and closed as he blacked out and came to again and again. Then there was a snap and his heavy breathing stopped. The tension in his body eased and his arms fell limp at his sides. He was dead.
The air hung like an executioner's blade before the swing, the only sound was my heavy breathing. I couldn't believe it, he was gone. I wanted to feel happy and yet I wasn't. If anything I felt empty inside as the raging fire subsided, leaving a gaping hole inside of me. His eyes were open and they had the same blank stare that Odin had when he died. I returned to my normal form and walked over to Phoenix and fell on my knees beside her. Her eyes were open too, and I couldn't bare to look at them. Those once green groves that filled me with a sense of peace were now burnt to the ground. Her eyes seemed to scream hollow wails of pain, they were an unsettling shade of gray, reflecting the loss of her life. I shut my eyes and clenched my fists.
She was gone, I refused to believe it. She couldn't be gone, not after everything that had happened. I willed it all undone but to no avail. My pain swelled inside of my in place of the anger. I yelled at no one, no place to focus my anguish and it flowed freely from me, threatening to tear me apart at the seems. I slammed my fists into the ground, as far as I was concerned this warranted that outburst, it warranted so much more, but I refused to feed the beast inside of me. I couldn't afford to let myself become consumed by the depression that was on the doorstep of my sanity. It's a shame to say that I failed. As far as I was concerned the world could have ended right then and there and I wouldn't have cared. I had nothing to live for anymore, my hopes and dreams were scattered to the wind.
As if fate wouldn't allow me to have a moments peace Hades ran in the room with Jeb in tow. Jeb looked as though the world was ending and he stared at me with an open mouth, the words necessary to express how he felt escaped him entirely. He closed his mouth, sighed remorsefully, and shook his head back and forth. He motioned at Alex's body and Hades picked him up and carried him out of the room leaving only my and Jeb in the room with Phoenix's body. I could feel him looking at me, examining what he had seen, and judging what to do based on my reactions.
"Why didn't you do anything?" I was aggravated, the rage came back as it sensed a possible target but I bottled it up as best I could. I knew there were cameras all over the School, I knew Jeb knew about the fights, but he didn't react to them. He didn't answer my question. "Why Jeb?" He sighed and looked away from me. "Answer me!" I shouted at him as I got up and spun around to face him. "Why didn't you do anything!" Still no answer. I felt betrayed, the man responsible for me, the man who created me was betraying me, lying to my face.
"Trust me when I say that I was as shocked as you are-"
"That's not what I asked for Jeb!" He was avoiding the topic at hand, he knew it was a bad idea to make me more aggravated then I already was. we stayed like that for a minute or two, he just stood there, motionless, as I slowed my breathing and tried to become rational again.
"Alex did kill Odin." I didn't respond. "When I was examining him I found one of the darts had gone through the coat and pierced his heart, the toxin was the catalyst for a spontaneous cardiac arrest, he was dead before he hit the ground. Alex had timed the shot perfectly." Still no response from me, I don't know whether I was in shock or incredulous but for some reason I didn't respond. "Felix I didn't tell you because I didn't want this to happen, it wasn't worth it, look at what's happened, both Alex and Phoenix are dead."
"I can see that!" I finally exploded. "No thanks to you!" He had no excuse and I could tell that he was disappointed in himself. He was avoiding looking me in the eye. Eventually he crossed his arms behind his back and left the room. I waited until the door closed behind him before I fell back to my knees. My mind kept screaming to itself. Why, why, why? Nothing made sense anymore, what the fragments of the truth I could still make out pieced together a shattered picture. And now, I was all alone, and there was no waking up from this nightmare.
Yeah, I went there. Everything he knows is a lie! Odin is dead, Alex is dead, Phoenix is dead, oh come on. The death note can't be that long can it? Yes, yes it can. But I assure that it's all for good reason. Phoenix had to die because it's all part of the plot, same as every one else. Well, except Alex, I was looking forward to ending his existence, and I hope that you were looking forward to it too.
But nevertheless the story must go on. Please continue to read and review. TBC, so all in due time.