Taisaya: I. Hate. Highschool.

Haru: Oh no….

Taisaya: UP AND DOWN STAIRS! ALL I DO!!! MY TEACHER WOULDN'T LET ME IN THE CLASS! I WASN'T EVEN LATE!!!! EVIL HIGHSCHOOL! I WASN'T LATE! I WAS EARLY!!!!

Haru: …

Taisaya: ARGH! ANYONE IN MIDDLE SCHOOL WANT TO TRADE!??!!?!

Haru: I don't think any of them live in New Jersey… and I'm sure they don't want to trade…

Taisaya: I don't care, I'll leave NJ in a heartbeat.

Haru: -sigh- Okay…

Taisaya: Sorry… -sigh- I'm calming myself with some music from Tales of Symphonia OVA. It's so nice…. Enjoy the Chapter.

Songs for Chapter:

Maden der Frieschutz by [asian+nation T.M. Revolution (Peta vs. Nanashi) (I changed it.)

Nephilim by Abingdon Boys School (Phantom vs. Ginta)

Snow Kiss by NIRGILIS (D.Gray-Man song. It's pretty! You'll like it.)

OR

Fake Star by Seki Tomokazu (Gravitation Song. I think BAD LUCK sings it)


Chapter 28: Final Matches

Nanashi and Peta were the ones fighting next; they were already waiting at the field for Pozun to start the match. "Peta, the second knight…" she muttered, "Nanashi needs to be ready for this…"

"What's Peta like" Ginta asked.

"I have never seen him fight, but as you can guess, he has to be strong," Kira stated.

"Chess no Koma! Peta! Mär! Nanashi! Begin!" Pozun yelled, bringing his hand down to start the match.

"You know I did warn them Nanashi… but they got into a frenzy. I have a right in self-defense, don't I?" Peta asked.

"Griffin Lance…" Nanashi's ärm was activated, "There were children and women…"

Peta smirked, "Death sickle" a large sickle with red blood coming from the end of the blade appeared in Peta's hand, "Does that bother you? I'm a Chess Piece, that is what we do," Their blades met and both gave rapid fires of slashes at each other, Nanashi realized that Peta was slower then him and brought the griffin lance through his body, slicing it in half.

"He did it!?" Dorothy asked in shock.

"No…" Kira stated, "Peta isn't done yet…"

Peta's bloody body began to mass together and form his shape again, "Bloody body… as long as I have this ärm, then no physical damage will harm me…"

Nanashi looked at him with a glare, "Fine then. This won't work." he returned his griffin lance and held out his arms, "Electric Eye!" light came from his hands at attacked Peta, but…

"Dark Reflector!" he called, a dark-purple shield shot the lightning back at Nanashi with even greater force then before. When Nanashi was in thought of how he should attack, Peta took the chance and attacked, "Blood Syringe!" spheres with needles shot at Nanashi and started sucking his blood from his body--the same way that this team members died. The glass broke and the blood hardened and fired at Nanashi, cutting him. "I am Peta. The second Zodiac Knight, I will always serve Phantom. One day, I know he will make Mär heaven his own."

"How do you know that!?" Ginta yelled in rage.

"I have known him since he was human. We believed the same thing, we are the same--" he pulled up his sleeve, showing everyone his Zombie tattoo. "--More so everyday…"

"The zombie tattoo…" Kira muttered, "Phantom gave it to him too… but when…"

Peta smirked, "That's none of your business, Kira-chan."

"I don't care; I only thing I care about right now is avenging Luberia!"

"Sad. A waste of feelings, Abyss Cannon!" a dark blast hit Nanashi.

"Thousand Needles!" Nanashi countered. Silver needles sprung out of the ground and destroyed the blast before it could do anymore damage to him.

"Garnet Claw."

Peta's nails grew longer and he started slashing Nanashi with them. He randomly (Peta that is) pulled out a cup and drunk his blood, "Not bad…"

"Nanashi is done, his life is in danger," Alan stated.

"H-he'll pull through…" Dorothy muttered.

"…" Kira looked at him sternly and smiled, "He'll be fine…"

"Aegis!"

"Blood Syringe!"

From Nanashi, a large shield fell in front of him and blocked the needle-balls from hitting him. Nanashi's cuts seemed to heal as well. He looked to the sky, "Thanks Al… I own you one. We'll get you back."

"Al…? Alviss?!" Kira yelled, then her face drooped, "He never gives me any ärm…" she muttered to herself.

Peta grabbed the ärm that was around his neck and called it forth, it was Body Eye, a Guardian. Just picture a large demon with long arms, one point as a leg, one eye on its head and an eye in the middle of his body. It broke through the shield, to find that Nanashi had moved out of the way. He summoned his Gymnote, it destroyed Body Eye by squeezing it like a snake then to squeeze Peta, in the attack, it broke the Bloody Body. "Kill him." That was all Nanashi said, with a last electrical crush, it was finished.

Pozun walked over to Peta's limp body to check the condition. "…dead… Victory! Nanashi! Mär!"

Before Ginta left to go to the field, Dorothy handed him a magical stone, she didn't know that Ginta would improve so quickly, so she had forgotten all about it until now, when he needed it the most.

"Phantom! Come on—"

"Peta… I'm going to miss you… thank you for your loyalty all this time…" Phantom said, hovering over Peta's dead body. A single tear fell from his eye as he watched him disappear into the air. Everyone watched in shock, he has crying, Phantom, the first knight. "Goodbye…" He stood with a stern face and glared at Ginta.

"Phantom." Ginta snapped

"You've gotten pretty strong, eh, Ginta?" Phantom asked, with a slight smirk, "Not the same as in Caldia."

"Shut up!"

"Ginta" Babbo started, "You can tell he's no ordinary warrior, look at his magical power…"

"Yeah, I can see it…"

"As a referee for so long, this is hard to say, this is the last round of the final war games…" Pozun said.

"You can do it Ginta!" Nanashi yelled from the side lines, it was time for everyone to tell Ginta that he could win.

"I love you Ginta!" –Dorothy

"You're boss' son, fight like it!" –Alan

"Beat Phantom… for Hime-sama…" –Edward

"We believe in you, Buddy!" –Jack

"We won all our matches, now it's your turn. Do it for us… and for… Alviss and Snow…" –Kira

"I will. For everyone in Mär Heaven, I SWEAR I WILL WIN!"

Around the crowd, were scattered members of Chess no Koma, watching, waiting for them to begin so they could see Phantom win. Haru came about right before the match begun. Kira glanced at him; he had a straight face, watching his uncle with a bit of hate. He walked next to Rolan, they spoke for a second—Kira couldn't tell, but it looked like they were greeting each other—then turned their eyes to Phantom.

"Chess No Koma—Phantom! Mär—Ginta! The same climax as the last war game, Captain versus Captain! BEGIN!" Pozun called.

"Six, eight, nine, come forth!" Phantom summoned three guardians. One rock, one wood and cloth, and one a doll-like Guardian.

"Let's go! Babbo version one! Hammer ärm!" Ginta shouted, turning Babbo into his hand. He broke the rock guardian, but the wood guardian grabbed him. The doll used a light blast type of attack, at Ginta, but he overpowered the wood guardian and dodged the attack. "Dagger!" with one slash he defeated the doll. "Alright!"

"Allumage" That dark Babbo appeared, Phantom held the sword type weapon that was attached to it.

"That's that thing from Caldia… Come on Babbo!" Ginta swung Babbo forward as Phantom did the same. They clashed in mid air with equal strength.

When they were both next to their users, Phantom turned it into it's true form. It was bigger, a whole lot bigger. Ginta turned Babbo into the Dagger ärm. That did nothing, but it exploded when Ginta slashed it, blasting Ginta to the ground. He stood up slowly, when he looked at Phantom, his eyes widened.

Phantom's bandages were off, showing his true arm. Sickly green colored scales covered it, and ärms were sewed into it. He held up his arm, "Here we go Ginta. Phantom glass!" Ginta and Babbo was placed in a glass square, unable to get out.

"A mirror?" Kira asked, looking at the Phantom Glass.

"Yes," Dorothy started, "If the user shatters that glass, the person inside also shatters."

"…"

"I'll give you some time, Ten minutes. It's boring to wait, so I'll tell you a story." He glanced at Kira, and back at Ginta, "I come from Caldia."

Dorothy's face widened in Shock, Kira flinched at his words. If Phantom came from Caldia, then Alviss and Haru did too. She looked at Haru, he still had his straight face, but he looked tense.

"Twenty years ago, when I was around ten, I found a strange Door. I must have had special powers back then, because I opened that door so very easily. Inside, there was an orb. It was a forbidden room, but I was seduced by the orb and visited it everyday. But one day, I was discovered in the orb room. According to law, my parents had to kill me, but they couldn't bring themselves to do it, so they committed suicide, and tried to bring my older brother with them."

Alviss' Father… Kira thought, she looked at Haru, he looked like this was the first time he heard the story.

"They threw me in prison for ten years, until she came. I was smitten, her beauty, her belief that humans were repugnant. She was perfect. I only wanted to serve her. She was going to leave Caldia, and I joined her, but before then, I stole ärms, the orb, and Babbo.

"Six years ago, before I killed you're father, I killed my brother—"

"BASTARD! YOU FUCKING BASTARD!" Haru yelled from the side, Rolan was holding him back so he wouldn't personally kill Phantom, "YOU!? YOU KILLED HIM?!"

"H-Haru, C-calm down!" Rolan said, trying to soothe the teenager.

"No! That bastard killed my father! I may have hated him, but he's still my father! You had no right!!" he yelled.

"He hated life, and wanted it all to end, even before our parents our parents died. He hated me, blamed me for everything—"

"IT WAS YOU'RE FAULT!" Haru yelled again, once again, Phantom ignored him.

"So I decided, if he hated life so much, why shouldn't I kill him? It would end everything for him."

#"So I decided, if he hated life so much, why shouldn't I kill him? It would end everything for him." Phantom said calmly. At this time, Haru was tired from struggling and yelling, so he didn't speak anymore. Yelling wouldn't bring his bastard Father back.

At the Last second, Ginta jumped out of the glass before it broke. "Damn that was close!" (Don't worry, you may have wanted a flashback, but the whole 29th chapter is the flash back!)

"Very good Ginta, let's move on, shall we? Soul Infinita!" a bow like blue fire appeared above him. The people watching all grabbed their chest, their souls all feeling great pain. Giving the flames more power, Phantom shot the fire at him.

Man he's strong! I should fix that! "Version four! Alice!" Babbo turned into the slutty Alice and healed Ginta of all his wounds. "Thanks" Alice then nodded and turned back into Babbo.

"You haven't even scratched me yet. Come on… Guardians One, Three, Four, Seven, and Ten!" Phantom called

"F-five?!" Kira said, startled

"That's like writing with your right and left hand at the same time… And he's controlling them all… amazing…" Alan said

Number four appeared behind Ginta and attacked him, "Did I forget to mention? Number four can teleport"

"…Since you asked… Version Six!—" Babbo glowed and then turned into a cat "—Puss in Boots!"

"MMEEOOOWW! YOU'RE DONE!!" he yelled

"That has to be the lamest Guardian ever!" Alan yelled

"IT'S THE GREATEST GUARDIAN EVER!!! NYA!" Chaton yelled

Number Four was about to attack Puss in Boots, but failed because Puss got to him first, "One!" Three attacked, Puss used an ärm and brought out a swordfish sword.

"HE USED AN ÄRM!?!?" Dorothy yelled

"Two!" Puss called when he defeated Number three.

Phantom commanded Number Ten to get Ginta, and when he did… "Soooo, You come from another world… And for what? Your father's dead your mother doesn't miss you, you couldn't save Snow, you're useless!" Puss threw a knife at Number Ten's skull, killing the guardian.

"Three! Nrya! Stay strong!" Number One went for Ginta and stabbed him in the chest, but it wasn't Ginta, but a dummy. Puss picked it up and smirked, "Nrya, a decoy!"

"Yup!" Ginta walked out from behind Puss, "His doll attracts attacks meant for me!" Ginta stated, "That's what I thought up! An ärm wielding guardian!"

Puss then killed Number Ten, "Four!" he reached down and picked up number Seven.

"P-p-p-phantom-s-s-s-s-ama!" It wailed, "S-s-s-s-save me!! Ekk!" Puss drove his claw into it's head as it spazzed out, and then ate it, tears falling out of his (Number Ten's) eyes.

"FIVE!" Puss took his chance while people in the crowd were cheering for him to attack Phantom. He slashed his two knives at his chest in an X-Motion. In the center of his chest, was a keyhole.

"I'm impressed, Ginta. To make a Guardian in the middle of a battle like that…." He took a breath, "The world you're trying to save is vile! You'd be better off letting it be cleansed by the queen! Phantom Glass!" Puss in Boots was placed in the glass.

"Babbo! Get out of there!" Ginta yelled and Puss jumped out.

"Everything is vile… Stinking of human and decay… We must cleanse…cleanse… cleanse…CLEANSE!!!" He yelled, the put on an even eviler smile, if that was possible, "Perhaps we allowed you to grow too much… We should put this to an end… Ginta!" the scales on his arm flew off when he held it out. They started to attack Ginta, "Did you're parents love you Ginta? Oh… That's right! I killed your father! My parents did, my brother hated me because of it, and because of that, they all died."

"Bubble Launcher!" Ginta yelled, changing Babbo to his bubble Launcher form. Phantom put up his hand, bringing his force field up. Ginta then Charged up his bubble launcher and shot one BIG bubble.

The smoke started cleared… "That was… mean…" it cleared, "Look what you did to my arm!" His arm was missing, all it was was a stubby little chuck of arm now. "Oh well, Who needs an arm when he has two more ärm!" he smirked, "Come forth! Number Two! Lemures! Number Five! Dead Dragon!" Both Guardians were immense, Lemures looked a lot like the Behemoth (I think that's how you spell it…) from Kingdom Hearts II (Or Final Fantasy Number… I have no clue, I know it was in Final Fantasy though. I don't play FF though.) and The Dead Dragon was a… Dead Dragon.

"Version Three… Gargoyle!" It was an all-out war between Number Two and Five, and Gargoyle. Well, until Ginta's magic surpassed Phantom's, then it was over. Dead Dragon and Lemures were gone.

"B-But how!? HOW CAN YOU HAVE OUT FOUGHT BOSS!?!?" Phantom punched Ginta, "I almost Lost! But I WILL BE VICTORIOUS!!"

Ginta jumped on Phantom and started attacking, "You cried when Peta died, You have a Heart! How can you just slaughter people!?!?"

He backed off, "Peta was… Peta was my friend…Why should I give a damn about anyone who isn't!?!"

Candice's face widened in shock, Rolan looked very uncomfortable. He let go of his grip on Haru, who ran to the edge of the battle. Ginta hit the mark. Shinzo… Kira thought.

"I Phantom! First amongst the Knights, Bring Mär heaven the gift of hell!"

"Those are dead feelings Phantom…" Ginta said

"Ginta!" Haru yelled, "Finish him off now! Before I do!"

He nodded, "Babbo!" The large form of Babbo fell and landed on Phantom. He shrunk and Ginta hoped, hoped that he wouldn't get up.

Lucky for him. Phantom fell down after an attempt to get up.

"It's difficult to say… But… the winner is… Ginta!" Pozun announced, the crowd broke out in cheers of joy.

Everyone expect the Chess Pieces. Haru jumped up on the field and walked over to Phantom. Rolan watched. Candice walked over to Haru. She grabbed his shoulder "If you hurt him I'll—"

"You'll what?" He snapped, shaking off her hand "I should kill him after… after…" he sighed, "After all he did to me" He leaned down to Phantom, "You bastard!"

Phantom slowly sat up and looked at him, smirk written on his face. "I'm guessing you're mad, the truth hurts"

Haru growled and grabbed the collar of his shirt, so tight that he could feel Phantom's Adams-apple moving up and down in his throat. "I should kill you. My father? I hated him with everything I got, but not as much as I hate you. How could you kill him?! I would never kill Alviss! He may get on my nerves, but to kill him!?" He released his shirt, turned and walked away, "When I get Akari back… You're dead."

"Now Haru-kun, is that anyway to speak to your uncle?" he asked, Candice helping him get to his feet.

"…" Haru disappeared into the air. Rolan waited for Phantom to leave before he left.

"I wonder why Haru was so pissed at Phantom…" Ginta asked out loud

"…" Kira didn't dare to say anything

"That was strange… I mean, that was terrible, but to be yelling like that…" Dorothy stated

"…"

"He was over-reacting a bit, Haru does over-react and yell, but never like that!" Alan said

"…"

"Hey, you never know, Haru could have known Phantom's brother!" Nanashi threw out

"…"

"Like that would be true… Aren't Alviss and Haru brothers? Then Phantom would have cursed his kin!" Jack stated

"…" Kira sighed

"What's wrong Kira-chan?" Dorothy asked, "Is talking about Haru reminding you of Alviss?" Kira shook her head, even though it did.

"…I know… I know why Haru was so upset…"

Mär's faces widened, "What? You do? Tell us!" Ginta commanded

"Phantom's brother…" all eyes were on her, What was his name… Kyoshiro… that's right… "Kyoshiro… Is Haru and Alviss' father." They were silent, everyone was, the crowd and all. So she moved on, "When I was taken by Haru to Chess no Koma, I overheard them. They were aiming for Alviss along. Haru doesn't want to be a Chess Piece, Phantom forced him to join. Or should I say… Shinzo forced him to join."


Taisaya: I'm ending it here. Next chapter is the flashback of Kyoshiro's life and so forth. Does anyone want me to keep writing this 'Song of the Chapter' Thing? Because I will until I run out of songs…

Haru: -glare- Don't! PLEASE!

Taisaya: -Pats head- its okay Haru-kun. If I have to do it for the next chapter, It'll be some really angsty music cause Kyo is awesome like that. Anyway. I have no clue what I write after chapter 29, cause 1.) Mär vol. 15 doesn't come out until later this month, and I don't feel like downloading it, 2.) They don't have subs for the anime this far yet, 3.) I don't understand Japanese. 4.) I'm afraid I'm going to ruin the story.

Haru: She will do that. Expect slower updates from now. Taisaya started High School today. As we all know.

Taisaya:… MORE TALES OF SYMPHONIA MUSIC! Nevermind! I FOUND JJJUUUNNNNNEEEE!!!!

Haru: … not him….

Taisaya: HOLY CHEESE! HE'S SOOOO SEXY!!!! LOOK UP 'JUNE- Pride of Tomorrow' on Youtube!!!!! –spazz- -starts to sing-

Haru: … Wow… she can sing this one…

Taisaya: Yup! BTW, me and Wolfgirl2.0 are making a Collab with our Mar stories. Takes place after both of them so there will spoilers!

Haru: R&R

Taisaya: I'm so proud, so proud! I'm so proud! I'm so proud I'm so proud; I can see the pride of tomorrow! Tomorrow! I will know, I'll control, I can see tomorrow, tomorrow! Tomorrow! (Last two tomorrow's are sung like 'to my room', which I wouldn't mind going! XP) Done singing, Thank Momo for editing and please review!!!