Chapter 24: War: Game Over

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Time to wrap this war up. I swear to you by the the chapter you finish this chapter, your pants are gonna be filled to the nuts with shit. Because I'm going big.

And I forgot to give a better description of Alex's true form voice in the AN in the last chapter. It's just his voice mixed with Adachi's voice from Persona 4 the Animation.

On with the show!

BGM: No Redemption by Chombchrist

"I'm gonna enjoy slicing your head off!"

Alex and I were at each others faces again, with our swords in between us. Now that he has achieved his true form, we're back to square one. His wounds have healed and he's only gotten stronger. From the rapid beat down I just have him, I was a little exhausted and weaker now. Alex's new giant armored body towered over me and all I could really focus on was that disturbing smile formation on his helmet. I looked at it and I felt like he was mocking me. Mocking me for deciding to not kill him. Nonetheless I still will not do so. I know that under that thick, giant armor is a madman, and inside that madman is my best friend. One way or another... I'm bringing him out. Even if I have to break every bone in both our bodies.

"Not happening big guy!" I retorted, asserting more force on my push. I managed to push him back a few steps, before he took one hand off the hilt of his sword and punched me in the face. If it weren't for my helmet, he would have broken my skull with that punch. I lost my center of gravity and started to fall back. Alex grabbed my throat and laughed.

"Come on "bro"! Where's all that energy you had?" He asked rhetorically. He punched my stomach, with barely half his strength, and the next thing I feel is my back meeting a wall.

"Ow." I muttered as I landed on the floor. I stood up and cracked my neck. "That wasn't pleasant." I said. It was surprising to even myself that I was still able to be sarcastic about this.

"Cut the funny shit, and fight me!" Alex ordered. I ran to him and reared my arm back and as I extended it to hit him. He grabbed my fist and started squeezing it. It was impossible not to hear my bones crack. He yanked my arm forward, hovered his elbow above it and brought it down to break my arm.

"AHHHHHHH!" Alex could have ripped my arm off if he wanted to, he was toying with me. He wanted me to suffer for as long as possible before he killed me. Guess my best friend turned into a bit of a sadist over the years. Taking advantage of his sudden lack of focus I punched him with my other arm, then I kicked him in the shin, dislocating it. He let go of my broken arm and stepped back. I stepped back as well and my arm started to heal already. Guess my true form accelerates my healing abilities. Meaning Alex's healing is accelerated as well. Meaning I had to do this quick. "Okay, that was less pleasant." Seriously, how am I sarcastic right now?

"I said FIGHT!" He ran at me again. I sidestepped and caused him to hit the wall. Alex may be stronger now, but with his new hulking body he can't turn as well. He's like wild animal acting on instinct now.

"Well first, how bout you pull your head out of the wall?" I asked with a wide smile.

He did just that and charged me again. I ducked down, grabbed the horns on his helmet and threw him behind me. An animal is predictable.

I pulled out my gun again and shot Alex's knees so he couldn't charge me like a rhino. I whipped out my Plasma Blades again and started cutting his limbs. I finished by jabbing my blades into his stomach. I struggled to lift up his gigantic body but I did it. I was struggling to breathe, he was so heavy. I fell backwards and caused Alex to slam his head on the floor. Unfortunately I severely hurt my back when I landed. I worked through the pain and both Alex and I stood up. "Just for that, I'm ripping your dick off first!"

"I'd love to see you try." I taunted. Alex charged me again and I stepped to the side again. Only this time Alex extended his arm to the side and closelined me, causing me to flip. I landed on my face. I rolled my body over and saw Alex trying to curb stomp me. I rolled under his foot and he attempted again. I rolled again and he did it once more. The third time he attempted it I grabbed his foot. Once again I struggled underneath his weight. Alex pushed himself off the ground with his other foot and I struggled even more. With every ounce of my strength I pushed him off of me. I summoned my swords and swung at my surroundings.

Alex summoned his own sword, found an opening and stabbed my stomach, but I got his shoulders. My armor was thinner than his so I took more damage. "This pleasant enough for ya?" He asked.

"Not... in the very least." I grunted. He jammed his sword in further.

"Good." He removed his sword from my stomach and we pulled back. I was too tired and everything was just a blur. I didn't notice Alex running towards me again. He readied his sword and pointed it at my heart. Before the blade ended my life something stopped Alex and pushed him away. Soon my vision began to clear.

And I saw Alex and Leon standing face to face to my right.

"You could have lived Leon. Now you'll die before him."

"You will not harm him!" Leon retorted.

"Dammit Leon I told you to stay out of this!" I scolded.

"And you thought I would listen?"

"This is between me and Alex. Stay out of this!" I ordered.

"You're not talking me out of this."

"I will shoot you." I threatened pulling out my gun. He didn't even budge. "Okay then, I'll cut off and cauterize your head before you grow more." He backed up.

"All yours." He said, returning to his original spot. Alex then looked at me.

"Now where were we? Oh I remember..." Akex suddenly ran towards me and grabbed my neck. "I was about to pop your head like a zit!"

"Actually, we left off here." I managed to say before I kicked his nuts with all my might. He may now take as much damage with that armor, but pain is pain.

"ARGH! YOU LITTLE PRICK!" While he was clenching his nuts I ran up to him and started punching him in the face, not giving him a single chance to counter. I grabbed his arm and threw him across the room. I ran in his direction and hit him as he flew across the room. I picked up the pace and got to the wall he was heading for and launched myself off of it. I hit the flying Alex in the back and with both of our speeds I managed to break his spine. Alex fell to the ground with me in front of him. I walked to him and placed my foot on his chest and pointed my sword at him, both of us panting heavily.

"Game over." I tapped my sword on the eye on his chest plate and everything went white.

BGM end

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I observed my surroundings and found myself in a familiar place. I was in the place where I learned to control my true form. I looked down and saw Alex still below me, in his normal form. I looked at myself and saw that I was back to normal too. I got off of Alex and my sword disappeared. Alex sprung up and grabbed my shirt. "What the fuck did you do!? Where are we!?" He asked.

"We're in the place that's gonna make you feel like a huge idiot." I explained.

"What the fuck are you talking about!?" He said, loosening his grip on me.

"I'm going to show you a few things. And when you see them, don't. Observe them." I sound like a fucking sage. Felt kinda cool.

"What do you mean?" Alex asked a little calmer, letting go of me.

"It's easier to show you." I moved my hand in front of me and everything was white.

When the light faded Alex and I were in a familiar place. "Where are we?" I didn't answer. He looked around and he soon recognized where we were. "Our old room. Why are we here?" He asked. I turned around and gestured to a younger version of me, sitting alone on my old bed. "What is this?"

"You don't know?" I'm just taking this sage shit way too seriously. I like it!

The door to our room opened and the head of the orphaned and a younger Alex stood in the doorway. Alex was slightly taken aback by this. "This is-" He started slowly.

BGM: It's Hard To Say Goodbye by Michael Ortega

"The day you and I first met." I looked at our younger selves and watched the familiar scene end unfold. "The day we became brothers." Our younger selves just introduced themselves to each other.

"From now on, I'll be the brother you never had." Listening to that familiar line now, I couldn't help but think of Dax. My younger self shook the young Alex's hand and everything went white again.

Alex and I were still in our room along with our younger selves. The door opened and the head and a younger Sabrina stood there. "I know you remember this day." I said to Alex as I witnessed Alex and I introduce ourselves to Sabrina.

"I'm Michael. Make yourself at home, and welcome to mine and Alex's dysfunctional little family." My younger self said. Alex's eyes widened when my younger self said the word "family". I think he was getting the message. Everything went white once more.

This time when the light faded Alex and I were outside of the orphanage. Sitting on the stairs of the orphanage was our younger selves and Sabrina. This was still before Alex and I found out we were Nephilim. In fact it wasn't that long after Sabrina turned our duo into a trio. This was another familiar scene to us. A family has come by a few hours ago looking to adopt and they turned down Sabrina coldly. I remember the woman calling her a "worthless bitch".

"Sorry Sabrina. This is all our fault." Alex's younger self apologized.

"No it's my fault. You guys would probably be with new family if it weren't for me. If it weren't for you guys hanging out with me you would have been out of here a long time ago. I'm sorry Alex. I'm sorry Sabrina." My younger self apologized with tears rolling down his cheeks.

"Come on, bro, don't talk like that." The younger Alex said.

"Yeah it's fine, really. I'm sure someone well adopt us someday, all of us." Sabrina assured.

"But-"

"No buts man. It ain't your fault we can't get adopted so stop acting like it is. As long as we got each other, we're all the family we need." Alex said wrapping his arms around Sabrina's and my shoulders.

"Alex is right, all we really need is each other." Sabrina agreed.

My younger self sniffled and more tears rolled down his face, only now they were tears of joy. "You guys are the best!" He shouted in pure happiness and our younger selves shared a group laugh.

Alex and I were back in the original black plane, still just the two of us. Alex was looking down slightly and I just looked at him. "What happened to you man? What happened to us? We were brothers, now look at us." I say showing him an image of what was happening outside this plane if existence. While we were here our bodies outside were still fighting, subconsciously. "I don't want to fight you anymore Alex. I want my best friend back." I put my hand on his shoulder and he looked at me to see tears rolling down my face. "I want my brother back." I said with a sad tone. Alex stated at me for a few seconds and I saw tears running down his face as well. He planted his head in my chest and broke down crying. Now this was the Alex I grew up with.

Reality

Our previously fighting bodies suddenly stopped fighting and stared each other. Slowly the armor around us began to disintegrate. Soon all that was left was our masks, which faded as well, to reveal Alex and I crying.

"What the... Why are they crying." Gin asked.

"One minute they're at each others throats, the next they return to normal and start crying?" Yukari asked, confused.

"Ain't it obvious guys?" I ask still looking at Alex. "I got my brother back." Everyone smiled at my statement. Even the silver haired Moka smirked a bit.

"That right." Suddenly Alex summoned his sword again. "However..."

"It's not really like us to call any fight a draw. So..." I said summoning my own sword.

"Time we found out who's really better!" Alex and I said at the same time.

Alex and I charged each other and our swords. Only this time we had smiles on our faces. Our swords clashed and I saw the fire in Alex's eyes I used to see, and he surely saw mine.

"Just like old times huh?" I ask.

"Just like old times."

We swung our blades repeatedly and not one of us landed a hit in each other. This had to be the best part if this day, I felt like Alex and I were just having a normal sparring session, and it felt great.

I grabbed Alex's shoulder and slightly pulled him down. I rolled over his back and landed behind him and tried to cut his back. Alex jumped up and landed on my blade. I lifted my blade and Alex flipped in the air and landed behind me. After everything that's happened Alex and I got too tired and withdrew our swords. We decided to settle things the old fashioned way. I good ol' brawl with nothing but our fists and feet.

Alex punched my stomach and I grabbed his other arm and tried to throw him into the air but as I lifted him he grabbed my arm, flipped over me, then flipped me to the ground. Before he could say anything, I spring jumped back to my feet and gave him a roundhouse kick to the face. Next I punched his face rapidly, then I grabbed his arm again and spun him around, and then threw him to the ground. I decided to let Alex get up and we started attacking each other again. We punched each other only we only hit each others incoming fist. We high kicked each other but our legs crossed together. I tried to slide under him, but he just jumped over me. We went to punch each other again, but we caught each others fists and stated at each other. This was it! This is what I've been waiting for! The day when Alex and I fight like brothers again. After staying in the same spot for about twenty-five seconds we wrapped up the fight by head butting each other.

We released each others fists and stumbled back. Eventually we fell to the floor, our heads next to each other.

BGM end

We both were breathing heavily and Alex said "Maybe we can call it a draw. Just this once. Deal?" He raised his hand in front of my face which I gladly grabbed.

"Deal." I looked towards the others, who were still smiling. Then I looked to Sabrina, Leon, and Mizore. "Anyone gonna help us up?" I ask sarcastically. Sabrina came over and helped me up while Tsukune came to help Alex. Once we were up I walked towards Mizore, who was restrained during the whole endeavor. I summoned my sword and released her by cutting her restraints, but not before putting out the flames below her.

Mizore threw her arms around me and held me as tightly as possible. I was shocked at first but I graciously returned the hug. "I'm so glad you're safe." She said.

"That's my line." I said with a laugh. Mizore pulled away a bit so she was looking me in the eye and pressed her lips against mine. It felt good finally feeling her icy lips against my warm lips. We kissed for about thirty seconds before we were rudely interrupted.

"Dude you can kiss your girlfriend later. We should get going." Alex said. Now I'm starting to wish I killed him. Wait a minute...

BAM!

I decided to kick Alex square in the nuts.

"Dude! What the fuck!?" He asked, clutching his junk.

"You kidnapped my girlfriend. You thought I'd let that go unpunished?" I asked. Suddenly Alex's eyes widened and looked to Mizore, who was latching into my arm.

"I'm sorry about that Mizore. I hope that one day you can find it in your heart to forgive me." He apologized with a bow. Mizore just glared at him, obviously still pissed. Though ya can't really blame her.

"Well all that shit aside, let's get the fuck out of here." I said with relief in my voice.

We walked out of the orphanage and made sure everyone was here. And by everyone I mean the team plus Alex and his FORMER lackeys. Sabrina opened a portal and we all went back to Yokai Academy.

When we got to Yokai Academy we all went to the headmasters office to discuss Alex and the others enrolling as students once summer break was through. Wolf and Alex's former lackeys were against it at first but they were still Afraid of Alex, who convinced them to enroll. And by convinced I mean threatened. The headmaster gladly allowed it but said that Alex and his group had to remain in the Human World until then. Not a big deal, we were going to the human world for summer break anyway so we'd see Alex and them within a few days.

After talking with the headmaster we decided to see Alex and them off. Sabrina opened the portal to the Human World and Alex was the last to enter, making sure he gave Sabrina and I a hug goodbye.

As Alex stepped through the portal I thought about everything that would happen now. I thought that it didn't matter cause as long as I had my friends everything would turn out fine. Because of Tsukune, Mizore, and the others I was able to get my best friend back. Because of my new monster friends I felt like I had a family.

And l couldn't have been happier.

Did ya shit yourselves? Did you cry a bit? I'm sure you did, don't lie to me. Anyway I've decided not to take a month long break from this story, it'll be no longer than a week. Writing this chapter really made me feel like I couldn't take a whole MONTH off, so fuck that! I'm gonna post one more chapter before I take a break from this story. Just as to give you guys a taste of season two of this story. It starts from where we left off so ya know.

Next Time: Summer Begins