Chapter Eight
By Amythest Stone
AN- THIS IS VERY VERY IMPORTANT!!! YOU KNOW WHY?! BECAUSE YOU WILL SERIOUSLY BE UPSET IF YOU DON'T READ THIS!!!! Okay, yes everyone this is the last chapter. I am very sorry that it is so short. I never thought it would. Alright here's the deal-
Dameon- *whines* now everyone thinks I'm dead…..
Amythest- *smacks* that's cause you are…..
Dameon- but but but-
Amythest- *pulls out large mallet and knocks out* Shut up!!!! DON'T GIVE AWAY THE END!!! *looks up at audience* oops…
Anyhow, here's the deal. If you read the reviews, I posted to apologize for how long this took. I'm very very sorry about that. If you read you already know that I am graduating this year (it's a pain in the ass….I'm not sure if it's worth it ~_^) and life is hectic. So, I want at least five reviews for this chapter. Here is the deal. If you recommend this to some of your friends and I get five reviews, I give you a really long epilogue. Even four is good. Alright? Four or Five reviews and you get a long epilogue. If not…this is where it ends…..I love you all! ^___^! Thanks for supporting me through this! ^___^!
Golden Goddess- *hands a rose* Thanks for being my first reviewer through all the earlier chapters! Kept me going! ^____^
AC Ishida- hehe. Thanks…When are you going to update your fic?! Do it soon or else (^_~) Thanks a lot for reviewing!!! ^___^
Dark One- Dude, thanks! Twas great that you reviewed! I have three whole fans now ^_~!! Hehe
Well here's the final chapter folks…By the way….no one ever told me to put a disclaimer……
Disclaimer- I do not own any of the things that belong to the original Everworld series. The rest of it though, is of my own creation. Actually, everyone except for April, David, Christopher, Jalil and Senna are mine I do believe! ^__^ Anyhow I make no money off of this so don't sue. You wouldn't get much anyway *hands a piece of bread* that it….my snack at the moment…
"Dameon….no…please…" I begged. He did not respond. He was perfectly still now. "God, no. It's not fair." It was silent now too. Or so it seemed. I choked, about to sob. David bit his lip and turned his face away. Jalil sat back on his heels, his face blank. He was hurting inside. I knew it. My theory was proved when tears began to go down his face. I couldn't take it. I hated this place. This whole damned place. I didn't want to be here anymore. Never did. Now…..now…I couldn't be here anymore. Christopher pulled me into a comforting hug. I hugged him back.
"I did it in time." Tinao said finally. He looked relieved. WHAT? Not at all upset. In time? DAMEON IS DEAD YOU ASS!
"What do you mean 'in time'?" I sobbed aggravated. "He's dead. What did you do 'in time'? Certainly didn't save him or explain anything." I buried my face back into Christopher's chest and continued in a rather muffled way. "Maybe you can explain to us what you didn't explain to him." I was going to say more but I was cut off by a sob.
"April, I believe you should calm a bit before you come to conclusions." He said softly. "I understand you have just lost a friend, but I think I should remind you I have as well." He sat down cross legged and stared at all of us. "I suppose I will confess to you what I was supposed to tell him." He sighed and stared up at the heavens. "There was more to the legend that was forgotten over time. This part I knew but told no one. Not even Dameon, though he had the right to know. The messiah would also be known this way. The Goddess would come down when she felt it right and a man would fall in love with her. Together the two would have a child, a woman. That woman would have a child as well. Her child would be the messiah. Her first born that is because she would have others after that." He paused and struggled it out. "I was the man she fell in love with, the one that fell in love with her." I looked up from Christopher's comforting arms. Another surprise. No wonder the Goddess was so friendly with him.
"So…Dameon….he was your grandson?" David said from next to him. His voice was hoarse.
"No, Dameon was not my grandson. Dameon is not related to me at all. That was the tricky part. My daughter did not want to be what her destiny was leading to. So, she left and went to what you call the real world and there she had the child. I went to that world as well to see if the child was fit. The Goddess has the power to send a being into both worlds as does my daughter and as does my granddaughter. I watched her grow up and saw how dark she was and found her unfit. The Goddess, Celest, had me search for another."
"That is how I found Dameon. He lived a few blocks from where I was living. One day he wandered to my house. He was only a small child then, around two. His parents did not care for him well because no one else would've let a child wander that far. I took him in and fed him and brought him back. At least that's what I told his parents. Actually, Celest found him to be right for the messiah and used her power to transfer him to this world. In the process his hair and eye color changed."
"That is about it. I watched him grow up in both worlds until his parents found he had strange psychic powers and turned him in to the government. They wanted to do experiments on him but he managed to escape. You basically know it from there." I sniffled and wiped my face. So, Dameon had been originally from our world. He could've grown up to be a normal child.
"Who-who was your granddaughter?" I asked in general curiosity. Tinao's face darkened and he gave me a dark look.
"You know my granddaughter, April O'Brian." He said, his voice had a bit of venom. "And you know me better than you think." It hit me like a bullet. Hit the others too.
"Senna." Jalil hissed out. "Senna." Tinao nodded, an ashamed look on his face.
"Yes, Senna is my granddaughter and the chosen messiah for my people. They are dead now though because of everything going wrong." He faced me. "You know me, April. I apologize. I do. I should've told you in the first place." Tinao was my grandfather. My adoptive one. The one that my parents liked even though he was technically related to Senna. The one who had taken real world Dameon in.
"Grandpa?" I cried and I leaped forward and hugged him. He hugged back. He was right. We had both lost a friend.
Darkness swirled around me. It swirled and danced acting more like water than normal dark. I walked through it, unsure of how I had gotten to the place and having no idea as to how I would get out. So, I wandered. The blackness moved around me like some beast but didn't frighten me. It was comforting for some odd reason. Lytte til mig, følge mit stemme, jeg skulle forklare all, I thought. Tinao's words. I didn't have the slightest clue as to what they meant but they kept coming back to me and replaying in my mind.
Finally, I sat down not because I was tired but because I did not know where else to go. Everywhere was the same. I looked down at my stomach and saw no wound. I felt my chest and shoulder, finding them both fine. Am I really dead?
"Dameon, are you there? Can you hear me?" Someone was calling. I didn't want to answer. I felt so peaceful. "Lytte til mig, følge mit stemme, jeg skulle foklare all." I obeyed, going towards the voice. Slowly, in the darkness, a form took shape. Tinao was sitting there, looking sad. He saw me and smiled. He patted the darkness next to him. "Come now, sit." I obeyed and sat next to him.
"Don't tell me you're dead too." I said feeling the peacefulness again.
"No, I'm not dead. I am here for a reason." He replied. I turned to him and cocked an eyebrow. "I'm here to explain some things to you." And that's exactly what he did. A while later I looked up with him trying to comprehend all the new knowledge in my brain.
"So, I never was really meant to be the knikana?" I said, "I was just a replacement for Senna?"
"In a way, yes," Tinao began, "But in another, no. That is how destiny led us. So, Senna, though by the prophecy was meant to be the knikana, was not. Instead, destiny felt it fit for you to be it." I sighed and tried to absorb it.
"So, I didn't originally look this way?" I said, thinking about my features.
"No, you looked," Tinao paused, "here let me show you." He waved his hand and in the darkness ripples formed. They spread out and slowly formed a picture. It was me. Even though there were differences I could tell. Blonde hair and blue eyes with lightly tanned skin was what stared back at me. "This is how you would look today, if you had not been chosen." He waited for me to think it through before he continued. "I came for another reason as well. Celest, the Goddess, and I felt that you should have a choice. We wanted to give it to you. We are giving you the choice on where you want to live, Dameon. In real world or Everworld as your friends would put it. In the real world, everyone will have forgotten you. In Everworld, well there are your friends." A choice for a normal life? Without the worries that no normal eighteen year old should have?
"Tinao," I turned to him, "what if I don't want to live anymore?" He looked pained and took a while to respond.
"That is your choice, Dameon. You do not have to live anymore if you do not wish to." I turned to the darkness once more.
"I will leave you to make your decision." He stood and sighed. "Make the right one, Dameon." He placed a gentle hand on my shoulder. "If I do not meet you again," he choked, "Remember that I always loved you as a son even if you were not my own." Then he left me to make my decision.
I didn't know what to do. Did I really want to live again? Did I want to go back to either world? I wanted to make the right decision but once again destiny screwed me.
"Dameon?" A melodic voice called, "Dameon?" I knew the voice and stood. Apprehension was taking over. Another form was appearing in the darkness. One form I didn't want to see. Senna slipped close to me, close enough for me to see her clearly. "Hello, Dameon." I glared at her and stepped back. She just smiled her famous smile of indifference. "I've been looking for you. I heard you were finally told everything. So, now do you understand why I wanted the Goddess?" I tried to keep my cool.
"You wanted the gods to use her instead of you." I spat, "you make me sick Senna. Turning in your own grandmother?" She smiled.
"All's fair in love and war." She replied passively and moved on. "Have you made your decision?" No, but I'm not telling you that.
"What business is it of yours?" I snapped turning away from her. Her arms wrapped around my shoulders and she leaned close to my ear.
"Because I ought to worry about my brother; didn't you just give a lecture about caring about family?" I hardened. She was trying to get to me or was she telling the truth? She told the truth about Tinao. "Don't act surprised. I know Tinao showed you a picture of what you would've looked like. Didn't it look the least bit familiar?" Yes, but I'm not going to accept this. "You were meant to be the knikana all along. You were mother's first born. No one ever knew. She left you with your father." Her laugh was low and cynical. "He hated you just like April's family hated me." She paused. "That was off topic a bit. I bet you haven't made your choice yet, have you?" I pulled away. "I suppose I ought to help you." She stepped back from me and turned to leave. "Good bye, dearest brother." Then she was gone as well.
The pain started back up then. It stabbed in my chest and grew. It expanded over my entire body. A light grew in me and came out with more pain and glowed over the entire area. What the hell had she done? Then the darkness revolted against the light and I was tossed into hell.
I know I know. You hate me for ending this way but….if you read my notes you know the deal! ^___^ so get people to review…I promise a great epilogue if it gets four to five…^______^ more reviews better it is! If this is the last post I make by all! Love you lots!
By Amythest Stone
AN- THIS IS VERY VERY IMPORTANT!!! YOU KNOW WHY?! BECAUSE YOU WILL SERIOUSLY BE UPSET IF YOU DON'T READ THIS!!!! Okay, yes everyone this is the last chapter. I am very sorry that it is so short. I never thought it would. Alright here's the deal-
Dameon- *whines* now everyone thinks I'm dead…..
Amythest- *smacks* that's cause you are…..
Dameon- but but but-
Amythest- *pulls out large mallet and knocks out* Shut up!!!! DON'T GIVE AWAY THE END!!! *looks up at audience* oops…
Anyhow, here's the deal. If you read the reviews, I posted to apologize for how long this took. I'm very very sorry about that. If you read you already know that I am graduating this year (it's a pain in the ass….I'm not sure if it's worth it ~_^) and life is hectic. So, I want at least five reviews for this chapter. Here is the deal. If you recommend this to some of your friends and I get five reviews, I give you a really long epilogue. Even four is good. Alright? Four or Five reviews and you get a long epilogue. If not…this is where it ends…..I love you all! ^___^! Thanks for supporting me through this! ^___^!
Golden Goddess- *hands a rose* Thanks for being my first reviewer through all the earlier chapters! Kept me going! ^____^
AC Ishida- hehe. Thanks…When are you going to update your fic?! Do it soon or else (^_~) Thanks a lot for reviewing!!! ^___^
Dark One- Dude, thanks! Twas great that you reviewed! I have three whole fans now ^_~!! Hehe
Well here's the final chapter folks…By the way….no one ever told me to put a disclaimer……
Disclaimer- I do not own any of the things that belong to the original Everworld series. The rest of it though, is of my own creation. Actually, everyone except for April, David, Christopher, Jalil and Senna are mine I do believe! ^__^ Anyhow I make no money off of this so don't sue. You wouldn't get much anyway *hands a piece of bread* that it….my snack at the moment…
"Dameon….no…please…" I begged. He did not respond. He was perfectly still now. "God, no. It's not fair." It was silent now too. Or so it seemed. I choked, about to sob. David bit his lip and turned his face away. Jalil sat back on his heels, his face blank. He was hurting inside. I knew it. My theory was proved when tears began to go down his face. I couldn't take it. I hated this place. This whole damned place. I didn't want to be here anymore. Never did. Now…..now…I couldn't be here anymore. Christopher pulled me into a comforting hug. I hugged him back.
"I did it in time." Tinao said finally. He looked relieved. WHAT? Not at all upset. In time? DAMEON IS DEAD YOU ASS!
"What do you mean 'in time'?" I sobbed aggravated. "He's dead. What did you do 'in time'? Certainly didn't save him or explain anything." I buried my face back into Christopher's chest and continued in a rather muffled way. "Maybe you can explain to us what you didn't explain to him." I was going to say more but I was cut off by a sob.
"April, I believe you should calm a bit before you come to conclusions." He said softly. "I understand you have just lost a friend, but I think I should remind you I have as well." He sat down cross legged and stared at all of us. "I suppose I will confess to you what I was supposed to tell him." He sighed and stared up at the heavens. "There was more to the legend that was forgotten over time. This part I knew but told no one. Not even Dameon, though he had the right to know. The messiah would also be known this way. The Goddess would come down when she felt it right and a man would fall in love with her. Together the two would have a child, a woman. That woman would have a child as well. Her child would be the messiah. Her first born that is because she would have others after that." He paused and struggled it out. "I was the man she fell in love with, the one that fell in love with her." I looked up from Christopher's comforting arms. Another surprise. No wonder the Goddess was so friendly with him.
"So…Dameon….he was your grandson?" David said from next to him. His voice was hoarse.
"No, Dameon was not my grandson. Dameon is not related to me at all. That was the tricky part. My daughter did not want to be what her destiny was leading to. So, she left and went to what you call the real world and there she had the child. I went to that world as well to see if the child was fit. The Goddess has the power to send a being into both worlds as does my daughter and as does my granddaughter. I watched her grow up and saw how dark she was and found her unfit. The Goddess, Celest, had me search for another."
"That is how I found Dameon. He lived a few blocks from where I was living. One day he wandered to my house. He was only a small child then, around two. His parents did not care for him well because no one else would've let a child wander that far. I took him in and fed him and brought him back. At least that's what I told his parents. Actually, Celest found him to be right for the messiah and used her power to transfer him to this world. In the process his hair and eye color changed."
"That is about it. I watched him grow up in both worlds until his parents found he had strange psychic powers and turned him in to the government. They wanted to do experiments on him but he managed to escape. You basically know it from there." I sniffled and wiped my face. So, Dameon had been originally from our world. He could've grown up to be a normal child.
"Who-who was your granddaughter?" I asked in general curiosity. Tinao's face darkened and he gave me a dark look.
"You know my granddaughter, April O'Brian." He said, his voice had a bit of venom. "And you know me better than you think." It hit me like a bullet. Hit the others too.
"Senna." Jalil hissed out. "Senna." Tinao nodded, an ashamed look on his face.
"Yes, Senna is my granddaughter and the chosen messiah for my people. They are dead now though because of everything going wrong." He faced me. "You know me, April. I apologize. I do. I should've told you in the first place." Tinao was my grandfather. My adoptive one. The one that my parents liked even though he was technically related to Senna. The one who had taken real world Dameon in.
"Grandpa?" I cried and I leaped forward and hugged him. He hugged back. He was right. We had both lost a friend.
Darkness swirled around me. It swirled and danced acting more like water than normal dark. I walked through it, unsure of how I had gotten to the place and having no idea as to how I would get out. So, I wandered. The blackness moved around me like some beast but didn't frighten me. It was comforting for some odd reason. Lytte til mig, følge mit stemme, jeg skulle forklare all, I thought. Tinao's words. I didn't have the slightest clue as to what they meant but they kept coming back to me and replaying in my mind.
Finally, I sat down not because I was tired but because I did not know where else to go. Everywhere was the same. I looked down at my stomach and saw no wound. I felt my chest and shoulder, finding them both fine. Am I really dead?
"Dameon, are you there? Can you hear me?" Someone was calling. I didn't want to answer. I felt so peaceful. "Lytte til mig, følge mit stemme, jeg skulle foklare all." I obeyed, going towards the voice. Slowly, in the darkness, a form took shape. Tinao was sitting there, looking sad. He saw me and smiled. He patted the darkness next to him. "Come now, sit." I obeyed and sat next to him.
"Don't tell me you're dead too." I said feeling the peacefulness again.
"No, I'm not dead. I am here for a reason." He replied. I turned to him and cocked an eyebrow. "I'm here to explain some things to you." And that's exactly what he did. A while later I looked up with him trying to comprehend all the new knowledge in my brain.
"So, I never was really meant to be the knikana?" I said, "I was just a replacement for Senna?"
"In a way, yes," Tinao began, "But in another, no. That is how destiny led us. So, Senna, though by the prophecy was meant to be the knikana, was not. Instead, destiny felt it fit for you to be it." I sighed and tried to absorb it.
"So, I didn't originally look this way?" I said, thinking about my features.
"No, you looked," Tinao paused, "here let me show you." He waved his hand and in the darkness ripples formed. They spread out and slowly formed a picture. It was me. Even though there were differences I could tell. Blonde hair and blue eyes with lightly tanned skin was what stared back at me. "This is how you would look today, if you had not been chosen." He waited for me to think it through before he continued. "I came for another reason as well. Celest, the Goddess, and I felt that you should have a choice. We wanted to give it to you. We are giving you the choice on where you want to live, Dameon. In real world or Everworld as your friends would put it. In the real world, everyone will have forgotten you. In Everworld, well there are your friends." A choice for a normal life? Without the worries that no normal eighteen year old should have?
"Tinao," I turned to him, "what if I don't want to live anymore?" He looked pained and took a while to respond.
"That is your choice, Dameon. You do not have to live anymore if you do not wish to." I turned to the darkness once more.
"I will leave you to make your decision." He stood and sighed. "Make the right one, Dameon." He placed a gentle hand on my shoulder. "If I do not meet you again," he choked, "Remember that I always loved you as a son even if you were not my own." Then he left me to make my decision.
I didn't know what to do. Did I really want to live again? Did I want to go back to either world? I wanted to make the right decision but once again destiny screwed me.
"Dameon?" A melodic voice called, "Dameon?" I knew the voice and stood. Apprehension was taking over. Another form was appearing in the darkness. One form I didn't want to see. Senna slipped close to me, close enough for me to see her clearly. "Hello, Dameon." I glared at her and stepped back. She just smiled her famous smile of indifference. "I've been looking for you. I heard you were finally told everything. So, now do you understand why I wanted the Goddess?" I tried to keep my cool.
"You wanted the gods to use her instead of you." I spat, "you make me sick Senna. Turning in your own grandmother?" She smiled.
"All's fair in love and war." She replied passively and moved on. "Have you made your decision?" No, but I'm not telling you that.
"What business is it of yours?" I snapped turning away from her. Her arms wrapped around my shoulders and she leaned close to my ear.
"Because I ought to worry about my brother; didn't you just give a lecture about caring about family?" I hardened. She was trying to get to me or was she telling the truth? She told the truth about Tinao. "Don't act surprised. I know Tinao showed you a picture of what you would've looked like. Didn't it look the least bit familiar?" Yes, but I'm not going to accept this. "You were meant to be the knikana all along. You were mother's first born. No one ever knew. She left you with your father." Her laugh was low and cynical. "He hated you just like April's family hated me." She paused. "That was off topic a bit. I bet you haven't made your choice yet, have you?" I pulled away. "I suppose I ought to help you." She stepped back from me and turned to leave. "Good bye, dearest brother." Then she was gone as well.
The pain started back up then. It stabbed in my chest and grew. It expanded over my entire body. A light grew in me and came out with more pain and glowed over the entire area. What the hell had she done? Then the darkness revolted against the light and I was tossed into hell.
I know I know. You hate me for ending this way but….if you read my notes you know the deal! ^___^ so get people to review…I promise a great epilogue if it gets four to five…^______^ more reviews better it is! If this is the last post I make by all! Love you lots!