Chapter 36: Final Battle
Amu got up, now as Amulet Fortune, beside Royal King Blue, Ikuto and they looked at him. Kage was raging with energy, his eyes were red with power, and his whole body seemed to glow a deep red.
"I will not give up to you. My Key is stronger then your stupid lock!" He held it up, in the air as it grey a black orb of power formed around it.
"You lost once. You can't win. Whatever you do, I can reverse it." Ikuto said, his confidence back, his sword out and his key sitting around his neck as well.
"...If you leave the mark behind...you can gain your own dreams...you don't have to suffer or make others suffer." Amu said as she looked to him with sympathetic eyes.
"I don't need your charity! Don't look at me like that! You don't understand, you couldn't! This curse...this mark..." Kage's eyes flared with red anger as he stared at the palms of his hands. "...was a defense mechanism given by that Lock! By that original merciless King! Did he know the damage he could do? That the creator of the lock also created a monster such as myself? HA!"
Ikuto and Amu stood there surprised by Kage's own words...as if he was trying to convince himself that it was the King's fault for his family's actions.
"I will destroy you. I will destroy that Lock if it is the last thing I do!" Kage suddenly went darting for Amu in a running fit of dark red energy, as Amu looked scared as he came towards her.
"Ugh!" Ikuto stood in front of her with his blade drawn stopping him. Kage's hands let out a red glow that formed a black sword, and he fought Ikuto with a vengeance. The two went back and forth, as Ikuto barely dodged a hit, as his arm was sliced...and then Kage was hit in the shoulder by Ikuto...
Amu stepped back in horror. They were fighting over her and her lock; she didn't want Ikuto to get hurt...and...if Kage could be saved...she didn't want to see anyone die over a dream...a dream or aspiration should produce happy things not wage wars... Wars that her friends were fighting against their own allies and friends...
Nagihiko and Kukai...
Rima...
Kari and Yaya...
Tadase...
Utau...
I want to save them all...I want to be strong enough to stop this fighting...I don't want the twins or a boy to hurt because people don't value their abilites...or love to cause friendships and relationships to break like Ryu's and Yasuko's...or even a girl to be so lonely that she inflicts harm on everyone that has what she doesn't... but I need help... I need the help of my friends...
Suddenly they all...in the midst of their own fights, some had warn down but others were still in battle...they heard Amu's silent prayer... I need help... I need my friends...
"We'll help you!" Nagihiko and Kukai said, as they sent their energy from their chara's to Amu.
"Be strong Amu!" Rima said.
"Amu!" Kari and Yaya said.
"We believe in you." Tadase nodded.
"You're the one person we can depend on Amu." Utau said.
Suddenly Amu felt a rush. She felt her friend's powers, their shugo chara's spirits surround her in form as she took in her friends strength and combined it with their own.
Ikuto turned to see what Amu was doing. "Amu don't you'll hurt yourself, you're only just healed-" When he felt a hit on his shoulder and knelt down to the ground as Kage gave him a low blow.
"Kage, Let me help you! Open Heart Fortune of Love and Dreams Pure Combined!" Amu felt the energy run through the Lock, she felt a rush of power that almost made her head spin.
"Hah you won't win! YOU WONT!" Kage's eyes glowed red as he put all his energy into the Cracked Key and let it come over his body as he shot his dark energy against hers. At first it appeared to succeed but instead a battle on shot, where her pink energy was overpowering his and then his dark energy was overpowering hers.
"Amu...don't give up..." Ikuto said to her as he looked at her brave face as she was pushing all she had against Kage.
Suddenly the pink orb engulfed the room...in a bright moment, and a sudden bang the room was back to normal. Kage was on the ground. The Cracked Key was broken in two and rusted. His hands had scars on them but he looked pale and white as Ikuto walked over to him...he seemed to look up at him with dead eyes.
"You won."
Ikuto watched as his body seemed to disapear from existance. Suddenly all the other's turned back to their regular selves; the marks were disappearing, as they all fainted to the ground. The others came running into the room, carrying their fainted companions who had just healed their marks, to celebrate.
"We won!" Kukai said proclaimably, carrying a sister on his back.
"I knew Amu could do it." Rima said, carrying the boy on her back, luckily only a few centimeters taller then her.
"I'm sorry I can't carry this bitch anymore." Utau placed Amaya on the ground.
"Ikuto looks like a Prince!" Yaya said with starry eyes, as Kari held Ryu.
"Ikuto..." Tadase said, looking at him noticing that he didn't really respond to their appearance in the room.
Ikuto walked over to Amu. Amu was lying on the ground. Suddenly she reversed back to herself from Amulet Fortune, and Miki, Ran, Su and Dia were all around her. Ikuto looked at her, with wide eyes.
Amu wasn't responding...