Chapter 2: Stability
What they had made was an answer, what they'd made was indeed Ciana. Jack looked with wide eyes smiling at her asking himself if what had just happened was really reality. He had only learned of fusions that day, and now he found out that he knew one all of this time. And he was amazed at that fact. It also explained a lot, like why these two were so desperate to see each other, and why kept they were so far apart. All because of this. As she finished reforming she opened her eyes. They were the same colour, except one on the middle of her forehead opened as well. Jack's jaw dropped even more than it did when he saw her come together, he didn't even think that was possible. This all had to be a dream. There was no way that any of this was real at all.
"C-Ciana?!" he manged to say in all of his surprise and confusion. She smiled back at him.
"I didn't mess up any part of me did I?" was all she said in spite of his reaction to all of this. Well this was a normal thing for her after all.
"Well your eyes." Jack said pointing at the third one. This time it wasn't the weird colours that he had sort of managed to get used to, but it was the number of those eyes. She felt around her head as she grabbed her third eye and grunted in pain. All of them closed then slowly came open again.
"Well this doesn't happen that often." she said trying to looking up at it with her other two eyes. "Never mind that, let's just get the heck out of this place." she said grabbing his wrist again and this time Jack pulled his wrist back forcing it out of her grasp. She just shrugged it off at him and walked out and Jack followed along with her. The two started walking down farther into the hall. Jack stopped and looked at her confused.
"The exit's the other way you know." He said pointing to the other way from which he came to find her. She just kept walking.
"We're not leaving yet Jack. We need to find my friends and settle the score for this." she said continuing as Jack kept following. He knew that she wasn't going to take no for an answer, so why even try to convince her. But while he was with her he may as well ask a few questions about this whole fusion thing since he was new to the concept.
"Um Ciana, what's it like fusing all the time?" she turned and looked at him. The only thing he could think was wrong question, but then she smiled at him which gave him a bit of relief.
"When you fuse all the time it feels like you're just one person instead of two different people stuck together, that's all. Sometimes you completely forget that you were two before all of it happened." she simply stated.
"What keeps your fusion together for so long?"
"It's love that does it. Lana and Shadow's love for each other keeps them, I mean me together. Any other questions?" Jack thought for a moment about what he could ask next.
"Can there be three people in a single fusion?" she turned her head and looked at him as he finished that question.
"I can fuse with other people, so yes I guess that there can be. I've even fused with Luna before once. It felt nice to try something like that." Jack swore that he felt a stab to the gut at the mention of her name, and yet at the same time it had just created even more questions in his head.
"What happened when you two fused?" he asked holding back a few tears.
"Well we became Starlight together. I still don't know what we looked like when we did though. We never found a mirror." suddenly she stopped. Where they were looked like a torn apart throne room. Jack looked at Ciana, she looked terrified.
"What's wrong?"he waved his hand in front of her face. She shook her head and her face came back to normal.
"It's nothing really. Everything is completely alright." her voice sounded shaky and like she was lying to him. But it at least sounded like she was trying with the lie.
"Well aren't you three a pleasant surprise!" a voice like metal rang through their ears as Jack jumped surprise and Ciana just looked angry to hear that voice.
"It's you two, imbecile." she said sounding rather mad at the voice. Jack gripped his staff even tighter.
"Now that's not a very nice way to talk to your king, now is it Lana, Shadow?" the voice sounding falsely hurt.
"You'll never be my king, and it's Ciana! And I'll call you worse if don't stop calling me two people, we're only one person!" her voice raised almost to shouting levels. Her fists were clenched, and Jack was getting a little nervous about getting a very violent anger outburst from her.
"You know how I can't tell a lie, unlike you two. Oh yeah, and shadow how did you like the cell that I set up for you? I designed it myself to hold you in. And how's your leg Wings, healing nicely due to your friend I see." he said stressing on the two part. Jack saw that Ciana was sweating lightly due to nervousness. This was the second time he ever saw her afraid, only this time she was a lot more calm than last time he saw her scared.
"Don't you ever call her Wings again you monster! You had them rip out a whole lot of feathers off of hers', and you're going to pay for each and every one that you tore off!" she paused for a moment. "Stop speaking to them, he's trying to get us distracted and making us forget who we are!" Jack barely understood what had just came out of her mouth due to a few minor grammar issues with that sentence.
"Are you okay?" he asked really worried for his 'friends'.
"I'm fine okay!" she snapped at him. He stepped back again due to her supposedly dangerous anger.
"You know that you're still just two spirits pretending to be one." he mocked her.
"Well then, go ahead and try hit me if you're able. No matter what say you our relationship is still completely stable." Jack laughed a little at what she had just said. What she had said rhymed, and it was just something funny to notice. Then a dark substance grabbed her arm and pulled her back, but before it could a knife appeared into her hand she stabbed it cutting herself free from it. Jack looked in amazement and she shrugged at him. "One half of me can shape shift and split himself into different parts." Jack realized that she had killed Luna with a piece of her body. He felt sickened by that fact. The knife just merged back into her hand.
"So why does this guy hate you again?" he asked as she seamed to get slightly angrier with that question.
"It's rather simple Jack Frost." he started
"Just call me Jack." he interrupted as he saw Ciana grin a little at what he said. And he smiled back.
"Anyway, they introduced the idea of fusion to demon culture when it was illegal, and it still is. You know that some spirits can't fuse together since the combination can kill them. But when I asked them to defuse they wouldn't. And those two started a rebellion against the law of no fusion." He explained before he was cut off again. "I was only trying to protect them, but they wouldn't listen to me."
"That part was an accident, and it's she not they or them or those two!" Jack took another step back in hearing if her rage.
"I thought that it seamed to be a fitting punishment for them. This was what they wanted in the first place, so I gave it to them. It kept going even after they left. She was still considered an inspiration by so many, so I did what I needed to. I caught as many of the traitors to our way of life as I could, and do you want to try and guess what I did with them exactly?"
Jack saw Ciana's eyes widen, and it was in horror. He gulped as he saw her look at her hands as they shook. This couldn't be a good sign at all.
"You son of Bitch!" tears came down her face except for in her third eye. "How could do that to them! My words were a choice, you can't just force them to do something like that! They didn't deserve any of it! If you wanted us then you just should have taken us instead of those innocent demons!" Jack still couldn't figure out what was going on right now.
"What exactly did you do to them!?" he felt his rage build up. One of his friend hadn't been accepted because of who she was, and now she was dead. Jack wouldn't let that happen again.
"Oh you're so adolescent, it's obvious what I did with them. I forced fused them together." Jack gasped in reaction to this and Ciana covered her mouth with her hands and continued crying. "I made sure that they couldn't defuse, and then after days upon days of their suffering they would die slowly from not their beings not being able to accept the other one." he seamed to sound rather cool for a guy that had done something this monstrous.
"That's sick, and cruel! Not even Pitch Black would be able to think of something that twisted!" he shouted right back at him in pure disgust. Then he looked at Ciana. She looked disgusted at what she was. Jack could see why. This was their way of expressing their love for each other, and it was being used to kill others against their will. Worse was the fact that it took several longs days filled with intense agony to actually kill them.
"It's all my fault that any of this ever happened." she whispered as more tears came down. He looked at her and felt horrible seeing her like this and blame herself for everything.
"It's not your fault." she said trying to comfort her.
"Oh but it really is. If they'd just surrendered to me then no one would have to have die because if you." Jack felt himself get even angrier as he finished his phrase.
"This is what you think of me, an experiment of some sort! Our fusion was a choice! You can't just force two people together and hope for the best! We knew that we could handle it!" They both were disgusted at what he was doing. Ciana was more disgusted at this than Jack though.
"And no need to look for your friends "Ciana". I have them with me, and if you really want them back you'll defuse with my creation Lana. If you refuse to do what I want then I'll just have to give them the same treatment as the others who wound up in this place." she looked horrified at what he just said to her.
"What does he mean his creation?" Ciana asked herself. "Wings there's something that I haven't told you, but it doesn't matter right now we have to defuse." "We can't. You know what happens to me when I'm not with you, and you need me to protect you us from all sorts of light." "But don't you care about our friends at all! We need to do this for them!" "What about us, we need each other as well as they need us, And we just got back together!" "Please you need to think about this even harder! If we don't do it then we're just going be separated by force like last time!" Jack saw the two start to split apart a little as his friend argued with herself. "They'll hurt you if we do, and how can you trust this monster!? I care about you as well!" "Fine then, if we won't split apart together then I'll just have to separate from you myself!" and with that Ciana turned completely black then into two distorted shapes. As they started completely defusing one of them was being pushed away. As the two came to colour Jack ran in time to catch Lana who was pushed away with tears in her eyes. She stood up away from his arms, and Jack saw that her leg was still very burned. It looked like the ice did nothing to help at all.
"How could you do this to us? I thought you said you were too stubborn to let that happen again." she nearly whispered at him. Jack looked at his face and did see a black liquid running down his face. So he did have tears as well.
"You know I just wanted to protect you." he said as more tears came down his face.
"Then why can't I believe that?" she almost whispered. Jack also asked himself why he couldn't believe that as well. Then as she reached out her had he reached out his.
"You know I'm sorry." just then glowing white spikes came out of the floor piercing him through all sorts of parts of his of his body as he yelped in pain of the light that was touching him at the moment.
"Shadow No-!" she gasped out as she grabbed her chest and collapsed onto the floor.
"Lana!" they both shouted as Jack ran over to her. Shadow couldn't move at all right now due to the light. "What's wrong with her?!" Jack asked worried immensely.
"She has a weak heart." he looked down farther at her body. "When we're together I can help her with that. So when she was surprised and saw me hurt it was too much for her body to handle." that made too much sense in Jack's head. Like when they freed her.
"Did they hurt you!?" "Who cares! Look at what they did to you!" "I do." She really did care about him that just wanted to protect her and be careful about what he said to her not to upset her too much in case of this.
"Do you think that she's dead?" he asked him nervously, and he thought for about a second about Jack's question.
"We always have to consider it, but maybe not." then something metal grabbed Jack by the back of his hood and lifted him. He tried kicking but whatever it was it was made of metal. A large metal hand grabbed his staff and ripped it out of his hands leaving him basically helpless. Worse was that his hoodie was starting to choke him a little. As he gasped for air he felt himself swing around and he saw a wall then it all went black.
As things focused in his head he saw that was inside a cell without his staff. He got himself off of the ground as he felt light headed with a headache. He groaned in his sudden pain.
"Jack is that you?" he heard Volga's voice ask him. He didn't see him, but he heard him for sure.
"Yeah, is anyone else here?" he asked rubbing his forehead to soothe the pain.
"I'm here as well, and so is Reisig." he heard Erde say sounding pretty saddened. Jack looked outside his cell to see a yellow glove waving to him, and he waved back. Then they both quickly put their hands back in their cells.
"We're all her Jack. Did you find Ciana before you ended up in here?" Maji asked him. At least they could all communicate through their cells.
"Yes and no. I found Shadow and Lana they fused together, but then something threatened to force fuse us if she didn't defuse immediately. Shadow gave in then he hurt him with light which shocked Lana, and she became unconscious from her weak heart. Then I ended up in here somehow." he retold them everything that had happened.
"We need to find a way out of this place and find Lana. She could be dying or dead for all we know!" he heard Erde exclaim as his heart sank into his stomach.
"Thank you for that captain obvious." Maji said both sternly and sarcastically at the same time.
"She's right though." Jack said defending her statement. "We need to find a way out of these places, and I don't have staff."
"They took my sack of water, so I can't use my powers either." Maji said sounding rather defeated.
"I need my lance to use my powers." Volga said as he walked around thinking about what to do.
"Well he doesn't have his bow or arrows not like they'd help us though, and I've already started rooting from fear!" Erde exclaimed. "If only Volga had his lance. Ya know so that he could turn into dragon and burst out of there and breathe fire and melt the bars. Then we'd all be free!"
"You can turn into a dragon?" Jack asked. "That sounds awesome!"
"Yes I can." He started. "It's part of my powers. The armour that I wear is made out of dragons' scales, and my horns are attached to my head. All that's missing really be a tale and wings." Jack thought about how to get out of his cell. He grabbed a bar and felt it. They were rigid. This meant absolutely nothing when it came to escaping, they were just like that.
"Erde can you still use your powers." He popped his head out of the bars.
"I tried that already. I couldn't tear the bars. All the vines ripped off my hands, so I'm not trying that again." she looked down at herself and her teared hands. And the bars were wrapped with dead withering vines. She hated being alone. She was all alone in her own cell. She went over to them and rubbed them. They reeked of death. She felt like crying for them, since they were alive once and a part of her own body.
"Can anyone do anything?" Jack shouted throwing his arms up in defeat. He heard a noise of muffled banging and some shouting. "What's that?"
"Maybe it's Lana!" Maji brightened up for once. Then some scratching noises entered all of their ears.
"What's that!?" Erde squeaked. "Is it a monster!?" she kept on jumping up in her cell in fright pulling out her roots in reaction to the sound.
"It's just me." Volga said.
"What are you doing in there." she asked him poking her head out of her cell.
"I still have my claws don't I?" he said as he continued scratching the bars as Erde grabbed her ears in pain from the screeching noises from the scratching of the metal.
"Well make it stop, please!" she shouted banging her head on the solid walls.
"Nope." he smiled as he continued scratching the bars.
"Yes please stop!" Maji said covering her ears as well.
"Why not?" Jack asked plugging his ears along with everyone else except Volga. He just kept smiling and scratching the bars, and Erde just kept screeching and running and jumping. All the little flowers had their ears that connected to her eardrums, so she had superber hearing. This was a large disadvantage sometimes, and now was one of those times.
"Because I want her to shout even louder." he said quietly making sure she didn't hear him. "We need some attention if we want to get out of here." he smiled even more as scratched down the bars even slower taking his time to make a screechier noise.
"How wonderful!" Jack said clenching his teeth smiling and plugging her ears even harder to the louder sound.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" she screeched even longer then usual. Then clanging of metal clashed came closer as he stopped scratching the bars. She was laying on the ground kicking the walls as she realized that there was no more noise as she unplugged her ears. She let out a sigh of relief.
Something came over to the cells that looked like a large black knight who had a set of keys. Volga stood up and readied his arms. As the guard came near his cell he wrapped his arms around his helmet. Jack stuck his head out of his cell. He saw his arms wrapped around the guard's head as he tied to struggle out of his arms. As he struggled then Volga banged its head off of bars multiple times and it fell. Only he was holding its head.
"I might have keys that we need now." he looked at Jack then he started searching its body. Then he found them. He pulled at the keys more and more. He pulled at them as hard as he could and yanked one out. He walked over to his lock and put his hand through the bars and put the key in the lock. He wiggled the key and fiddled with it some more and turned it. His door slowly creaked open. He stepped out. And looked at its body. "He had my lance!" he said angrily. The got down on the ground and he picked it up. Jack backed into the corner of his cell smiling. He was prepared to feel some heat fly past his face.
"Does that matter right now, just get us out!" Erde shouted.
"Yeah Erde's right, just get us out. Then we need to find our weapons and Lana." Maji said as Volga came over to her cell and grabbed a few bars causing them to melt more quickly than ever. After quite some time he managed to melt enough bars for a human to fit through. Maji slipped though the large hole quietly being careful not to touch any of the hot metal. "One down, three to go." she smirked. He smiled back then went over to Reisig's cell and started melting some more bars. As soon as he melted enough Reisig jumped right through the hole and somehow managed to land it nicely.
"Nice one." Maji complemented to him. He did a bowing gesture to say thank you since he couldn't say it himself. "You're welcome." she said doing the same gesture back at him. Volga continued with Erde. As soon as her hole was complete she wrapped vines around all the hot parts. Then she used her vines to bounce herself out. Then she pulled her arms ripping off all the vines from her hands. She looked at her
"Doesn't that hurt at all?" he asked looking at her hands.
"Every single time." she said trying to hold back all the pain making it sound painfully awkward. Then Volga came over to his cell and looked at Jack and smiled slyly. He took a step away as Jack backed into a corner. He breathed in as he focused himself. Then it happened. He breathed out a large blast of orange and red hot flames surprising Jack immensely. As he finished he coughed a few time then cleared his throat. Jack was once again agape looking at this. He walked over to the bars and looked at the wall to see that it was coal black circle. Then Erde used her vines and wrapped them around his waist and pulled him through the large hole. He looked behind him to see that she had somehow pulled him through the hole completely unscathed.
"Now come on,we need to find Wi- I mean Lana." Volga tripped over her name.
"Why can't we just call her Wings?" Jack asked all of them. Erde looked at Volga, and he sighed.
"Because it's Shadow's name for her, if anyone calls her that then he'll be kind of defensive about it. Since most people insult her using that name, he uses it like that because he loves her wings in that way." Volga said sounding hesitant to talk about this subject. "He has many different names for her, one of those is Angel. His favourite is Wings though, since it makes her unique and special. That's how he thinks of her. Special and unique. He's also quite sensitive when it comes to anyone hurting them." Jack already knew that part about him.
"Speaking of her, can we just go find her instead of just talking about Shadow's name for her!" Erde shouted with her eyes closed and two fists. Everyone looked at her due to her loudness to see that she was obviously angry. Then Reisig stepped out in the middle and pointed at Maji and Volga the pointed one way, then pointed to him, Erde, and Jack and pointed the other way.
"Erde's right, we need to find her. Let's all go." Volga said as the two groups parted ways. Jack looked at Erde. She was obviously unhappy. Her arms were crossed and she was looking down at the ground.
"Why don't you like Shadow so much Erde?" Jack looked at her as he asked her.
"I don't not like him." she tried to defend herself, but it was no use she sounded like she was lying. Reisig put his hand on her shoulder, and she looked at him. She grabbed his hand and brushed it off of her shoulder and glared at him.
"You know I don't not like him." she spat at him and then kept looking back down at the ground. Then he stopped suddenly and pulled out his loaded bow. Jack and Erde turned and looked at him. Then he shook his head and put his arms back under its cape. The three continued on down the long empty hall. Jack looked at her. "What?" she asked him angrily.
"Nothing." He replied. The silence just kept on going besides the sound of footsteps on the cold dusty stone halls floors. Reisig turned his head at Jack and then to Erde. Then he just looked ahead then shook his head a few time at the fact that he couldn't make either of them feel better, then he got an idea. He put his arms around his friends shoulders as they both looked at him. The two of them tried to push away but he wouldn't let go.
"Please let go!" they both at the same time. He just shook his head in response.
"I'm still not talking to him." Erde said crossing her arms once again. Jack crossed his arms as well. Reisig knew that since he had no mouth there was no way that he could really help things progress that much.
To Shadow for a few seconds.
I can't believe that he let me go that easily. What on earth could was he thinking! And I can't believe that I scared Wings like that. I don't even know if she's still alive, but I sure hope that she's alright. I know that if I do find her then she'll still hate me for what I did. Since Pitch separated us from Luna things were slightly unstable to say the least. When he did it he nearly separated us as well, so we weren't able to fix ourselves that well. We didn't want to fight Jack or Luna either, which only made it harder for us. And when we killed her we just destabilized even more. We needed each other and not Ciana though, we couldn't go through all the pain alone, but we were to scared to realize that we were closest that way.
We both loved her. Though it was an accident that she was ours to watch grow up, and that we did. No one could have taken her away from us. At the same time we wanted to be free as well, that's why we wanted control.
"Do you realize how long it's been since we felt real ground!?" she asked me.
"Yes I do, but you know we can't risk putting Luna in any danger." I felt her worry in myself as she felt our wanting of freedom in herself strongly.
"Can't we at least try asking her about it once?"
Since we broke away from her I realized something. We did what Pitch wanted us to. There's no real freedom if you're someone's slave. We had the one thing that we really cared about that wasn't us, and we lost it. Lost it to a shadow of a monster. The only reason we wanted her to use her powers was because if she didn't then the stress would hurt her. After all she was already giving herself nightmares, we didn't need her dealing with anything else like that or else she may not have been able to handle it. She may not have known it, but we loved her. I can still remember that time we fused.
"It'll be fine, just try it!"
"O-Okay Ciana." She slowly put her hand on my extended one. We had worked on the dance for a long time now it was time to try it out. This one was more complex than what we did usually. I twirled her around as she stepped left and I stepped right. We kept on
alternating steps as she looked back at me as we gave her a reassuring smile. She smiled back at us. Then there was another twirl, and as soon as it ended a dip that almost hit her head to the floor. Then we felt ourselves fuse together. As we all opened our eyes (we now had four in total.) Then we saw a bit of ourself. Thick brown curled for some odd reason with a few thin streaks of white twisting within the curls. We now were a lot more taller and wider with four oddly designed gloved arms. Our dress was white with a black top sort of like her's, and at the top of our stomach was a star shaped hole.
Now we felt like one. As I moved my left arm I felt like she was at the exact same time. I couldn't believe that the dance had worked at all. I had seen many other fusion dances, but this was just amazing that it worked.
"Is this what it feels like being you?" she sounded as though she was in a world of enchantment as we looked down and took a few wobbly steps. I looked down and saw our feet. They were kinda large, even for foot standards. I felt us smile in celebration of her happiness.
"Yes it is. This is what it's like being me. How does it feel?!" We asked eagerly and still thrilled that it actually worked. I saw us raise our top left arm as we both felt energy flow through it to try out our powers. Instead of black sand coming off it there were tiny silvery shimmering stars coming off our hand. I felt a jolt of amazement run through mys emotions looking at them. We were so happy for her.
"You mean that the two of you get to feel this amazing all the time!" we both felt a ourselves blush in bashfulness from what had she said to us.
My memories are something quite odd. Always sharing them, and when we came back together I could remember what she did before we came back together. They weren't pretty at all. They made me want to kill something. Her wings were amazing, soft and powerful they were. We could still use them when we Ciana, but we preferred not to use them. I found it was the best way to protect them.
If I did find her then I know she wouldn't want to fuse again. I may have almost killed her, but at least I can tell that she's still alive. I can tell because we've been fusing for so long that our bodies want each other, which now that I think about it sounds kind of creepy. Either way it's still my fault that she's acting like this. It was my hand after all. My weird shape shifting hand. If I can see an object then I can I turn my hand into it, or I can split myself into tiny pieces if I want. It feels weird to do it though.
To Wings!
How could he do this to me! I don't want to be mad at him, but he did this to me! I walk over to the wall. I reach out and feel it. Then my left fist smacks right onto it as I pulled it back quickly and rubbed it. He was just willing to split so easily, and now look where I am! I grab my fist and squeeze as I listen to it crack. Then I grab the top of my thumb and twist creating another cracking noise from my hand. We shouldn't even be in this situation right now, but thanks to him we are! He said he was too stubborn, but he was wrong about himself! Now we're both alone, and this is why we need Ciana! We lose it without each other, or at least I do. I hardly think ever he feels anything at all.
I can't believe that we tried so hard to get back together now he just splits us apart like this! Whatever he does I'm not talking to him, or at least I'm not going to be pleasant to him at all. The only reason I sang was because if I tried shouting inside that stupid helmet was then the sound would drive me insane, it was supposed to keep me from acting aggressive or anything like that. He's always trying to calm me down all the time, but I'm not good at that sort of thing. I hate being more aggressive than him! He doesn't like me being more aggressive with Ciana! He always saying that I need to be calmer than I am, but I'm not that kind of person!
Maybe he just needs to feel more, and actually feel something for once! He needs to try seeing things the way I do for just once in our lives! I walked over to the wall and looked at it. My rage builds up as I starring at it. Both of my fists tighten up. I pulled my right one back and slammed it onto the wall. It doesn't make me feel any better though. Another fist to the wall. Not helping as well. I just kept punching left and right rapidly. Then I stopped for a few seconds and blew on my fists a few times. Then I cracked the knuckles on my other hand. Then I shouted out as loud as I could. I kept on punching the wall and shouting at the same time.
He didn't care! He never cares! Never ever does he feel anything! He's just a shadow, nothing else! Just a cold, dark, emotionless shadow! I remember when we first fused. I didn't even know what was going on when we did it. But he's still just a shadow! He doesn't have real emotions. And he just left me alone here, he betrayed me! Alone in an empty room with a shut door! He left me!
"I...Hate...You!" I panted as I shouted as I punched the wall with my right hand as hard as I can. A loud thud came through my ears as I looked at wall. I shook my fist in pain. There's a small crack in the wall. Did I really punch it that much! Yes I did, I can feel it my hand. It hurts so much. I looked at it. It's covered in bruises. I grab it again and this time I pushed. More cracking. Ah that's a little better. Only a little though.
I'm still angry though, all because of him! He never cared! Never ever at all! I looked back at that wall. I just need another punch, that's all that I need! I punched the wall again. Then again, and again. Just a few more punches. That's all I need, just a few more! Aw man I'm so angry right now! Why doesn't he ever think of us together! We both need Ciana so much, and he just left me to the wayside of all of this.
"Wings?" I turned around and saw him. Why the hell that stupid shadow is near me! He must have got in here using his shadows or something. I don't even want to see him at all. And behind him were Jack, Reisig, and Erde.
"Don't you call me that ever again!" I shouted back at him glaring. He took a step closer to me and I took a step back. Jack, Reisig, and Erde stepped back as well.
"Please just calm down." he said to me, oh so I need to calm down! Really Shadow?
"I need to calm down!? You were the one that forced us to split up, and then I got dragged into here because of you!" he thinks it's all my fault! Really, he that thinks I'm the problem? Has he seen what he's done to us! What he's done to Us!
"Well then, do you want to fuse back again? After alll that seams to be the problem right now." he asked sounding sternly and very offended. How stupid does he think I am! He reached out his hand and looked at me. What does he think I am, his doll!? "Please?" Jack smiled, Reisig kept his blank expression, and Erde wasn't looking at us at all. She had her arms folded and she was starring at the floor. I breathed out. I need to do this for myself. They're all going to hate me for doing this. I lifted my hand making it look like I was going to do the dance with him. Then it came to a fist as his face seamed shocked to see the fist.
Then I did it. My fist, his face almost as hard as I could. It knocked him back down to the ground, now I have to admit that felt kind of nice. Everyone else looked surprised, even Erde. I also saw that Reisig was the most surprised of all of them. It's an answer, after all that's what they wanted.
"I'll be taking that as a no." He said rubbing his cheek that I punched. What a great job deducing the answer to that captain obvious.
"You'd better take that as a no." I watched him get up from the floor.
"I get that you're angry, bu-"
"You couldn't tell that I was angry! Look at what I did to the damn wall!" I sidestepped to show the crack in the wall that I made. Once again they were all surprised at it. I wasn't. Then Jack stepped out looking at me disapproving what I had just done.
"That really was uncalled for, Wings." He looked at me. I hate that name! Could people please stop calling me that stupid name! I looked at Erde, she was smiling slyly leaning against the room's door frame.
"Well then you try being fused with him!" I said flapping my wings lifting me a little. They both looked a cringe worthy awkwardly at each other.
"I'll have to pass on that." he said glaring at me.
"Well I can tell you right now that's it's like being fused with a stone metal robot!" Jack looked insulted at me as I finished statement. Well it was completely true.
"Well then, Lana." he started stressing on my name immensely. "Why don't you give all of us an example? When have I ever been acting completely emotionless?" he looked back at me. He asked for this! I didn't want to say this in front of other people, but I have to. I hope you're happy about me being completely honest with you! "Well Lana?"
"I didn't want to say this in front of anyone else, but." I stopped as I had to wipe away the tears in my eyes. Now Shadow looked hurt and shocked, I think he knew what was coming.
"I felt both of our emotions, and I felt nothing from you! When-when-"
"Don't say it Lana, don't say it in front of them!" there were tears in my eyes, and he looked so desperate, but he asked for all of this. I hope he knows that I don't want this.
"They need to hear it! It was when Lu-"
"No! Don't!"
"When Luna died! You felt nothing! I felt your emotions along with mine, and you felt nothing when it happened!" the tears started coming down my face. "I felt so angry and shocked, I was completely horrified when I saw it! I felt so many different emotions, and I couldn't figure out why you didn't feel anything. Then the entire room fell silent and everyone in it.
No more P.O.V.
Now all of this involved Jack. It involved everyone at this point. Jack bit his lip as tears came down his face. Reisig was just purely shocked at this news of her death, and Erde was crying silently. Shadow's heart sank into his gut quite literally though, and Lana had now let it out with her tears.
"Luna d-died?! B-but how d-did it h-happen? N-no n-not L-Luna!" Erde stuttered as her own shock took over her mind. She could barely wrap her head around the concept, this was Ciana's little Luna after all.
"How could you not feel anything!?" Jack exclaimed upset and angry at hearing this. This was his friend. Now he felt so angry, and it wasn't just him it was also Lana. All he had to do was look at what she said and did to him. If he hadn't been there then he just had to look at the wall. He part of the person that was the person that were so terrified about being separated from her and each other, and he didn't even feel anything when Luna died! It was just so infuriating to think about.
"You think that I don't feel anything! I'm just trying to actually calm down about this! I'm trying to be level headed about this! But you don't think that I care, you really don't think that I care?!" He cried as Lana looked shocked and horrified at what she said to him and what he said directly at her.
"No no no! That not how I felt! I-I I just, I don't-" she stuttered looking horrified at she had she had said to him. Jack looked at her then at Shadow.
"I...I..I didn't know how to feel about it! Maybe I didn't know how I'm supposed to feel! It all happened at once! I'm just a damn shadow! I'm not supposed to have emotions, you should feel lucky that I can even feel love for you Lana! I loved Luna just like you, and I miss her so much now! That's why I knew we had to defuse, because I wanted to protect you! I lost her, and I knew I couldn't lose you! I just couldn't! I knew I couldn't handle it of if you got hurt a lot." Shadow looked at the both of them. They were so angry and sad all at the same time as more black tears came down his face.
"Was this the real reason that you two were so unstable?" Everyone turned around surprised to see Volga standing behind them, along with Maji and Cloch. Both of them nodded.
"How much did you hear?" Jack looked sort of up at him. He looked down at him and quivered a little bit.
"Practically all of it." And he had figured all of it out. Then he looked at Lana. "I also saw you punch him." Lana looked guiltily at Shadow. "You needed to get that out, both of you. If Luna was here then she'd be able to calm both of you down. Luna just- You should've told us a lot sooner I don't really know about this." Lana looked at him.
"You deserved it a bit though." Erde pipped up. Lana and Shadow looked at her. "What?"
"No, no he didn't." Lana said shaking her head negativity.
"Well, maybe a little." Volga said smiling a bit. "You got a good arm ya know."
"Try a lot, my friend." Shadow said as Volga nodded in agreement to his statement. "Lana." She looked back at him. "Remember when we were Starlight with Luna." she smiled and nodded as more tears came down her face at the memory. "You felt and Luna felt so happy. And when you felt like that, I felt that when you were. It was the one thing that I felt what Luna. We all felt more connected than ever. That's how she made me feel. It was happy. You know what I'm like with human emotions."
"That's why when she died you didn't know how to feel. It wasn't happy, it wasn't her. It wasn't happy." she ran up to him and jumped up as her wings flapped.
"You didn't want her to die. I was just upset. I'm sorry." she looked at her.
"And I didn't want to see you so upset. I didn't want to see you not-happy."
Jack smiled in reaction. They loved Luna so much, but they both had very different ways to show it. Shadow loved her by associating thing with her. He didn't really understand human emotions, and she was slightly an angry jerk about this. A very odd couple indeed, but the two somehow made it work well together.
"It's okay if you still don't want to fuse again." he looked at her. She looked a little nervous.
"Maybe later, I still feel a little angry at you right now I will admit. It's just this place, that's all I think. We can't fuse here, we shouldn't. This place is an embarrassment to what we are. An insult to be precise." she wasn't really looking at him directly. He took a step closer to him. Then she grabbed his hand and they got a little closer.
"Do you want to know what's the best part about being not Ciana for once?" he asked her a little sly sounding. She looked at him and smiled a little.
"What?" she smiled as they got closer to each other.
"I get to look at your beautiful face for once." she blushed at what he said. Then Lana laughed a bit little and blushed even more. He smiled even more with an idea in his head. "It feels like forever since I saw it. And it's just as pretty as when I met you the first time." she laughed just a little bit more in embarrassment.
"There's my laughy-Lana." he smiled even more. She blushed again even more. Now it was a a full blown embrace.
"Stop it, you're embarrassing me right in front in Jack." she laughed at what he said. Then he kissed her on her cheek then he twitched, causing him to kiss her neck then he kissed her cheek again. Jack laughed a little and everyone looked at him. Then they did it again. He swung her around in the air. This time it wasn't a fusion though. But this was good enough, they were happy. That was enough for them though.
Then Jack saw that they were fusing again. He decided that it would be best not to say anything about it. They needed to be like this, and it was their decision to do it. He looked at all of them. Erde was just looking at the ground sort of angrily, Maji was grinning with her arms folded in a good way. Reisig looked as shocked as when he saw her punch him in the face and when he heard that Luna died. Then he looked up at Volga. He looked back down at him and smiled genuinely. Then the two stopped. They weren't fused again though. They just had to take their time with all of this.
"We really need to get out of here though." Volga said looking around a little worryingly as they finished. They both laughed a little bit more then look at them.
"Let's have a little fun first." Lana said grinning eagerly cracking the top knuckles on her right hand. Shadow slapped his forehead and slowly shook his head. Jack felt that her kind of fun might just interesting to him.
"If you guys want to then I'm all for it." Jack was the guardian of fun after all. Just not certain kinds of fun. One of these Jack had been reminded of some fun a friend of his had before certain discussed event happened. Now it was time to focus on a different type of fun. One that may just be some real fun.
Reisig shook his head yes. Then Erde smiled signalling a yes from her. Maji looked at both sides nervously weighing her options to herself and she then stepped forwards to show her agreement.
"Well why the heck not." Volga said sounding slightly skeptical about agreeing to doing this or even just agreeing to it.
"Yes!" Wings said jumping and using her wings to keep her in the air for a few more seconds. She used her wings to fly past all of them as they all moved out of her way in reaction. Then Erde shot out her arms using her vines to grab onto the wall and then fling her self out of the room and then kept on swinging in the halls to get closer to Wings. Then Maji ran out of the room then Cloch.. As Jack started walking out Shadow placed his hand on his shoulder. He turned around and looked at him. He had Jack's staff in his hand. He pushed it a little more towards.
"I though that you might want this back. It's yours right?" he handed it to him letting go of it.
"Thanks." Jack replied to his gesture. Then Shadow used his shape shifting to turn into a blob form and hopped away like an moving piece of clay. He felt his staff a bit then used his flying to get off the ground slightly. In this world he felt like he couldn't really fly all that high. But he could at least fly as fast as he could regularly. Using his fight he quickly caught up to Erde then closer to Wings.
Volga sighed. Reisig shrugged to him, he though that they couldn't get into too much trouble. They were with Shadow after all, he knew how to be careful.
"So kids are kids?" Volga asked him. Reisig nodded in agreement to that. "I'm glad I can still talk to you at the very least." that statement confused him immensely since he couldn't talk at all. He scratched his head for a few seconds. He just shrugged it off as the two ran out of the room to catch up to the rest of them.
Wings smiled at Jack excitedly. She knew that this was going to be a whole lot of fun. She was sure of it.
"You're going to love this!" she squealed from just thinking about it.
"What exactly are we doing, or is this a surprise?" he asked slightly nervous and excited. He barely knew her.
"You know those stupid tin can head guards." she started and Jack nodded his head yes. "Well we're going to bust a few up! There's a main teleport hall which is how they get to places so quickly. Me and Shadow know our way around here due to shared memories, so we're going there and just busting up a bunch."
"Are you sure this is a good idea, I mean they cloud just send a bunch at us if they wanted to."
"I'm sure it is. We used to do it all the time!"
"Lana's right! We did used to do it all the time!" Erde shouted since she was farther away from them.
Wings for a few seconds.
I really hate this place! And I'm definitely not letting that weird wall demon thing let us out without giving his kumuppins! At least it'll be fun kumuppins.
"Sleep my child,
Go to sleep my child.."
Who was that? I mean there was only one person that ever sang that song to me, and I know it couldn't be. I just shake it off of my head and see that I'm falling behind Jack. That's not happening and I'll make sure of it. I flap my wings as I caught back up to him. But what was though? I know what that was, it was this place messing with my mind that's what that was! All I can think of is her.
"Lana get down from that tree right now!"
"I'm never coming down, never ever!"
"I know you're upset, but you need to come down from there. Please Lana." I wasn't coming down though.
I heard ruffling and scrunching noises with a few twig snaps. As I looked to the noise source as a pale hand grabbed a branch and started pulling itself up as I saw her head. Her black haired bangs almost touched her emerald green eyes. As she pulled herself up to see the rest of her body. A slightly deep green dress that had long sleeves and a very long skirt. At the ends of her sleeves were white sort of poofy fabric. I moved over onto the next branch, it was really barky. Her long hair was very split at the ends but was still sort of straight. She smiled back at me and I scowled.
"Hey, look I just wanted to sa-"
"Um Lana." it was Shadow. He snapped me back into reality. I hate reality.
"Yeah Shadow." I looked at him.
"You're not going as fast as a falcon for once." he was right.
"Sorry." Why did I just say that? It was just so awkward sounding.
"Were you thinking that deeply again?" he was right. I just needed to shake this off of my head. I flapped my wings passing him, then I passed Erde with three more flaps of my wings and then I was back up with Jack.
"Where have you been slow poke." he asked me jokingly. He's going to end up eating those words.
3d person view time, and yes this will be focused on mostly Jack and Lana.
"Past you that's where." Lana smile taking another large flap with her large wings blowing him off course a little and pushing her forwards even more. She laughed triumphantly at that. Jack wasn't just going let her do something like that to him. Ready, aim, fire! Some ice was now covering her foot as she screeched a little in shock of the instant cold. Now they were neck and neck to each other." By the way thanks for the ice Jack. Feels kinda nice on the burn." she said holding back the pain rather cunningly. It hurt so good on her burned ankle.
"Thank, it's my speciality." he said flying slightly passing her for the moment. She laughed a little at that bad joke. It felt quite amusing to her.
"I never would've guessed that." Lana stated both happily and sarcastically at the same time. She flapped her wings hard twice and turned the corner as Jack followed. Then she twisted her body almost wrapping around her wing around her body then she spread them out creating a large gust of wind knocking him back even further. "How do you like it? I've been working on it for a while."
"It's nice." he complemented her.
"Coming through!" Erde said swinging past Lana. Now Jack and Lana were at the same level.
"You know that I raced past the Easter Bunny once, I beat him." Jack said trying to impress her. She laughed at that.
"That's something that I really don't care about at all." she laughed at him. She swooped over him highly and flapped even harder. After few more hard flaps she was slightly past Erde. Then she looked at the floor. There was a black bunny hopping backwards and looking at her. She flew just a little lower to look at it. It smiled at her. Then it started shifting its shape forming Shadow who hopped and kissed her right on lips. She was shocked at the kissed. She stopped for a second as he hopped backwards. Jack and Erde were close to her and were laughing their heads off at her embarrassment. They both walked over to her and saw her shocked face. She drifted down slowly to the floor.
"I-I-I." she just kept on stuttering about it, and Jack and Erde just kept on laughing at her expression. Then Shadow morphed out of shadow on the wall.
"That was Volga's idea." Shadow laughed. She ran up to him and hugged him tightly. "By the way, the room is just around the right side corner."
"Overdone it much." she said a little sarcastically. Then they all started laughing at the comment.
A.N. Wait! Before you complain about this fusion thing. It was something I planned from the beginning of it. I swear! Three years ago I was looking at Silhouettes of people dancing and it looked like they were fusing. That gave me an idea and I decided to really make Ciana. I even had those moments where her personality shifted on purpose! Then I saw Giant woman and got mad while singing the song because I was mad at the concept, but I loved the song. Then I watched a new episode of Steven Universe where Garnet gets mad and It sort of helped me really see how I wanted these O.C.(s) to sort of be. I had planned their personalities before and this was just a big help for me.
Not to mention I had to at least make this a bit of a tribute of them, I gotta say the show got guts to use Homosexual characters. It makes you feel okay if you know a pair or are Homosexual. Not to mention all the different types of figures that it has. Like I think that Rose Quartz so dang is beautiful, even though she is well wided figured. (if you know what I mean.) In fact one of my favorite episodes is Lion 3, and please explain to me why So many birthdays is so loved, it didn't really affect me at all.
This is the longest chapter with 34 pages. Fun fact about these two: When they're separated Shadow likes to help her keep calm, so that if she does get shocked so she won't die, and sometimes they will get competitive.
So that all I got for now, bye guys and R&R!