The Finish Line
Dusty showers of rock dust and pebbles gently tapped over the fallen fighters faces. Lynx, Patch, and Kidd, were on the ground and weakly trying to regain from the painful enforced nap they had just sunken into. Loud groans came from Patch as his stitched brown boots rose to stand tall. "Man ugh that's going to sting for a AH Kidd are you all right!?!?" Patch asked panicking. The young boy bent down and started to shake the young girl.
"Please Kidd come on wake up, we got to get out of here before Lynx wakes up" Patch said, weary cerulean eyes start to focus on the boy's handsome face. Kidd murmured softly "Oh..hey my, you sure went and got yourself bloody handsome while you were gone mate", Patch blushed and started to smile until Kidd murmured "Oh Serge". "GRAH" roared Lynx as he bashed a jagged chunk of stone over Patch's face, Patch cried out & dropped down.
Blood and rock shards cracked from the boy's shattered face, Kidd's fiery eyes boiled with tears as she turned to attack the cat man. Bare feet slammed into full speed as Kidd charged Lynx, the demon cat extended his arm and allowed Kidd to blindly slam throat first into it. Lynx grasped Kidd by her beautiful golden locks and started to smash her lovely face into the walls. "Filthy little slut, who gave you the right to even exist?" Lynx hissed out.
More painful slams, tears mixed with bloody scraps over Kidd's delicately crushing face. "RAGANOK FORTE" Patch enchanted, firing a mystical rainbow colored energy blast from his sword at Lynx. The electrical surge of colors and magical powers blasted Lynx off Kidd in a painful flash blast. The sword continued to blast, harder and harder as Patch leapt into a desperate charge, aiming to impale the beast & end this nightmare for good.
Patch snarled "This is it Lynx, the world and Kidd will finally be free of your terror", "The dead will always rise boy it, ALWAYS" Lynx said. Dark leather boots sky rocketed Lynx in the air as an attempt to escape Patch, but the hero was quick and his feet were even faster. Kidd watched in awe as Patch leapt into the air like a bat out of hell, arriving to the same height the fleeing Lynx was at. With one mighty swing of the sword, Lynx cried out.
A cleaving CHANK sound was heard as blade struck flesh, and cut through it as well. Loud thumping objects hit the ground; Patch closed his eye in disgust as he landed before the fallen demon. "Just stay gone this time (sighs in disgust) both parts of you" Patch said. Immediately Patch turned back to Kidd who was brushing her barely covered body free of dust and dirt specks. "You don't have to worry about him anymore Kidd, he's gone" Patch said.
A sweet smile painted over Kidd's face a she looked up to the handsome boy, reminding him ever so much about Serge. Patch leaned in and shared a sweet and wonderful kiss with Kidd, her eyes and cheeks lit up with rosy colored blushes. Even though Kidd was well aware of Patch's feelings for her, she wasn't expecting such a sweet and loving gesture. And while she couldn't deny how wonderful the kiss was, Kidd eventually broke from it.
"Kidd what's wrong? I'm sorry if I was too bold I just" Patch said but Kidd gently cut him off, "No, no, please Patch don't be upset please..don't. It won't make this any easier for me or you", those words seem to strike the boy's face hard and harder. So many times Patch has been told those words and each time he's been told them, something bad happened. "It's Serge isn't it?" Patch asked, Kidd gasped and simply said nothing as she sighed.
The sight of her beautiful face wilting in to a sorrowful flower of despair, and the way she hanged her head was truth enough to Patch's words. Kidd looked so sadly at Patch, feeling so hurt that she's doing this to him. "This has to be said however..Patch?" Kidd asked the boy as he bit his lip as a tear began to form in his only good blue stone eye. Kidd reluctantly then began "First thing you must know is, it's nothing you did or said all right?
It was nothing like that. When I first met Serge I was cocky, brash, and a dam well bloody buffoon in battle. I won a few rounds but really it was Serge that was the winner. Heh, that boy..he really brought out the best in me, made me shine in ways I never thought I could. Sure he was quiet and you're a much better cook then he is (giggle), but even still he just cared for me. Not just love care but it was like universal care, like a hidden love.
Not everyone needs to show their love by hugging and kissing or doing them favors, Serge was a shy kid and everyone knew it. But I looked at him I could see screaming tears in his eyes like he was trying to come out. Trying to break that bloody shell of silence he was always stuck in. Cause I could see love in him..and I could feel it to. But Patch you hold a special place in my heart, seeing your bravery and good looks (laugh) reminds me of him.
I feel the love you feel for me, and in ways I can't ever explain as deeply as I want to I do in fact love you. But, this experience has taught me that it's time to stop trying to just let things pass me by. After Serge left and the time worlds became one again, I was alone. There was nothing I could do about it either; it was as if for the first time in my life I was totally helpless. But not this time, no this time I am going to do something about it and I mean now.
I promised Serge I would find him and go back to his world, I promised him and by heaven and hell and all that is glory I will GAH" Kidd gargled. Patch gasped as he suddenly saw a fiercely enraged Lynx behind Kidd, grasping her slender neck and cheeks with razor sharp claws and fangs bared in a growl. Before Patch could lift his sword he was blasted by Lynx, flaring a striking purple lighting bolt blast at the boy. Patch flew back with a thud.
Energies sizzled in his patched up clothes as the painful spinning that circled his head was taking it's toll on Patch's brain as he moaned. "Impossible I saw Patch AIE" Kidd squeaked as she felt the fangs nip at her neck. Lynx snickered "Not my fault you brainless brats refuse to listen. I told you before, you can't kill a ghost I'm nothing more then a shadow. So no matter how many times you zap me, cut me up, or blow me up, I will NEVER die".
Slowly Patch staggered to his feet with his Miracalcon blade raised and ready for battle. "That maybe so but you can still feel pain and you can obviously tire out, I sense that lighting bolt was the last bit of magic you had left" Patch said. The grip held on Kidd grew tighter, Lynx pressed his claws right at the tender flesh of Kidd's young neck with a laugh. Like the hero he was, Patch cursed himself in rage and lowered the sword from Kidd's body.
Lynx laughed "Go ahead boy, play the hero role just one more time. Get up on your white horse, kill the bad guy, get the girl, and live happily ever after, but your not going to because you know there won't be an ever after. No, not unless you want to kill her just to get to me. Besides even if you had the balls to impale the both of us, I would still survive it. As long as the curse remains in her body, my shadow will always be around to haunt you boy".
The idea sparked in Patch's mind like a fire from inside his very soul, his face painted into a smug smirk raising the magical blade up once more. "What are you doing?" Lynx asked Kidd too had a worried look on her young face, "That's it, that's the answer, it all makes sense" Patch said. Lynx pressed the claws to Kidd once more, trying to dismantle any heroic ideas Patch was cooking up. But Kidd looked at Patch with fading worry.
That look he had in his eye, that powerful and passionate look he held in that beautiful blue eye. Even though she openly told Patch she didn't love him the way she loved Serge, he was still risking his life for hers, and as crazy as his idea seemed, Kidd knew it was going to be all right. "Now Kidd I know how this looks but no matter what happens to you got" Patch started, "I trust you Patch, I love Serge best but I trust you alone now mate" Kidd butted in.
Panic and fear filled those yellow eyes, Lynx knew something was wrong so he growled and pricked Kidd's neck savagely warning Patch. "Back off boy I swear I'll cut her throat, I'll make her nightmare yours for all eternity" Lynx said. Ignoring the pleas and accepting the risks, Patch bravely charged forward screaming valiantly, Kidd closed her cerulean blue eyes and bit her lip tightly. The young traveler's hearts beating together in one fast beat.
"RAHHH" Lynx, Kidd, and Patch screamed out, so loud their voices cried out to the banshees of the universe, a cry before the storm silences them all. SHANK! The sound of sliced flesh and splattering blood could be heard, Kidd and Lynx's eyes lit up with fiery diamonds of indescribable pain. Patch looked down at the blade and smirked; Kidd winced but looked down as well. The Miracalcon sword was only in a few inches of Kidd's bare belly.
In fact as the girl would soon realize as she cried out feeling the blade be pulled from her chest, it wasn't Kidd or Lynx that Patch was aiming for. A vile black cockroach like creature squirmed out of the splatter of blood from Kidd's wound. Patch growled and raised the sword up high before slicing the beast into black goo with a single slash. "Wrong, this nightmare is over and this vile vermin is the proof of it" Patch said before turning to Kidd.
Clearly the breathless beauty was baffled beyond all wits, never has such cheeks or lovely eyes been filled with such blushing confusion. "What the bloody bilge rats just happened?" Kidd asked curiously. But her question would have to wait till the ear bleeding screams of Lynx died out. The mad demon cat was crying in voices of demon, and monstrous nature. The furry cat's face was distorting and seemingly becoming blurry shards of dust.
Electrical flashes surged all over Lynx, a demonic cat skeleton could be seen before the cat man clawed his face into a bursting blast of cosmic dust. "Nine lives no more" Patch said with a chuckle, Kidd turned wide eyed to Patch before reaching his face, eye to eye. "What will it take for you to tell me what just happened?" Kidd said, Patch tried to begin but was taken back by a passionate kiss on the lips. The young boy blushed brightly at this.
"Yeah that'll do" he said blushing and laughing out loud, a cheery laugh that Kidd joined right along with him. It just felt so good to laugh again, to relax, enjoy life, enjoy love, finally Kidd was free. Patch laughed "So you see that's the whole story". Big blue cerulean eyes blinked as Kidd rubbed her temple, "Okay I think I got this right. You're saying that WAY back when Lynx stabbed me and poisoned me with the hydra venom, he bugged me.
As in literally putting an ancient creature called a nighcharsick beetle in my body. Which is how Lynx was able to give me those nightmares, hallucinations, and why you couldn't kill him? Because Lynx was just a physical illusion caused by the magic of the beetle's workings, is that right?" Kidd asked. Patch nodded "That's right so when I stabbed you I was aiming for you or Lynx, by killing the bug Lynx had nothing to grow power off of".
"Patch I don't know where to begin to thank you, you've given me back my head, my dreams, my life, and I" "But not your love" Patch cut off Kidd. The boy continued to speak as he sheathed his blade, stared lovingly to Kidd "And I have to learn to accept that..I know. Maybe I will, maybe I won't, but the important thing is to make you happy. I may not be the one you love but that doesn't mean I don't love you with all of my heart and soul Kidd.
And if I had the "key" to the one thing you wanted the most, the one thing you've searched so long for, who am I to keep it from you? I hope you can accept this gift as a token of my heart". Slowly and carefully, Patch lifted his green fingerless gloves to his black eye patch and lifted it up. Almost immediately a HUGE blinding flash light of energy engulfed the whole room. Kidd gasped as Patch vanished from site as she cried out "I'm sorry".
Suddenly Kidd was gone from the room, and Patch was left closing his bad eye with a sobbing tear escaping it as he replied "So am I..so am I". Another surge of light appeared and Kidd dropped down hard on a sandy beach, her lips gasp as she finds her old clothes back on her, good as new. Kidd searched around to see where she was, confused until she saw something. Until she saw a shape and could only reply "..Serge?".
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THE END!
(For now)
Dusty showers of rock dust and pebbles gently tapped over the fallen fighters faces. Lynx, Patch, and Kidd, were on the ground and weakly trying to regain from the painful enforced nap they had just sunken into. Loud groans came from Patch as his stitched brown boots rose to stand tall. "Man ugh that's going to sting for a AH Kidd are you all right!?!?" Patch asked panicking. The young boy bent down and started to shake the young girl.
"Please Kidd come on wake up, we got to get out of here before Lynx wakes up" Patch said, weary cerulean eyes start to focus on the boy's handsome face. Kidd murmured softly "Oh..hey my, you sure went and got yourself bloody handsome while you were gone mate", Patch blushed and started to smile until Kidd murmured "Oh Serge". "GRAH" roared Lynx as he bashed a jagged chunk of stone over Patch's face, Patch cried out & dropped down.
Blood and rock shards cracked from the boy's shattered face, Kidd's fiery eyes boiled with tears as she turned to attack the cat man. Bare feet slammed into full speed as Kidd charged Lynx, the demon cat extended his arm and allowed Kidd to blindly slam throat first into it. Lynx grasped Kidd by her beautiful golden locks and started to smash her lovely face into the walls. "Filthy little slut, who gave you the right to even exist?" Lynx hissed out.
More painful slams, tears mixed with bloody scraps over Kidd's delicately crushing face. "RAGANOK FORTE" Patch enchanted, firing a mystical rainbow colored energy blast from his sword at Lynx. The electrical surge of colors and magical powers blasted Lynx off Kidd in a painful flash blast. The sword continued to blast, harder and harder as Patch leapt into a desperate charge, aiming to impale the beast & end this nightmare for good.
Patch snarled "This is it Lynx, the world and Kidd will finally be free of your terror", "The dead will always rise boy it, ALWAYS" Lynx said. Dark leather boots sky rocketed Lynx in the air as an attempt to escape Patch, but the hero was quick and his feet were even faster. Kidd watched in awe as Patch leapt into the air like a bat out of hell, arriving to the same height the fleeing Lynx was at. With one mighty swing of the sword, Lynx cried out.
A cleaving CHANK sound was heard as blade struck flesh, and cut through it as well. Loud thumping objects hit the ground; Patch closed his eye in disgust as he landed before the fallen demon. "Just stay gone this time (sighs in disgust) both parts of you" Patch said. Immediately Patch turned back to Kidd who was brushing her barely covered body free of dust and dirt specks. "You don't have to worry about him anymore Kidd, he's gone" Patch said.
A sweet smile painted over Kidd's face a she looked up to the handsome boy, reminding him ever so much about Serge. Patch leaned in and shared a sweet and wonderful kiss with Kidd, her eyes and cheeks lit up with rosy colored blushes. Even though Kidd was well aware of Patch's feelings for her, she wasn't expecting such a sweet and loving gesture. And while she couldn't deny how wonderful the kiss was, Kidd eventually broke from it.
"Kidd what's wrong? I'm sorry if I was too bold I just" Patch said but Kidd gently cut him off, "No, no, please Patch don't be upset please..don't. It won't make this any easier for me or you", those words seem to strike the boy's face hard and harder. So many times Patch has been told those words and each time he's been told them, something bad happened. "It's Serge isn't it?" Patch asked, Kidd gasped and simply said nothing as she sighed.
The sight of her beautiful face wilting in to a sorrowful flower of despair, and the way she hanged her head was truth enough to Patch's words. Kidd looked so sadly at Patch, feeling so hurt that she's doing this to him. "This has to be said however..Patch?" Kidd asked the boy as he bit his lip as a tear began to form in his only good blue stone eye. Kidd reluctantly then began "First thing you must know is, it's nothing you did or said all right?
It was nothing like that. When I first met Serge I was cocky, brash, and a dam well bloody buffoon in battle. I won a few rounds but really it was Serge that was the winner. Heh, that boy..he really brought out the best in me, made me shine in ways I never thought I could. Sure he was quiet and you're a much better cook then he is (giggle), but even still he just cared for me. Not just love care but it was like universal care, like a hidden love.
Not everyone needs to show their love by hugging and kissing or doing them favors, Serge was a shy kid and everyone knew it. But I looked at him I could see screaming tears in his eyes like he was trying to come out. Trying to break that bloody shell of silence he was always stuck in. Cause I could see love in him..and I could feel it to. But Patch you hold a special place in my heart, seeing your bravery and good looks (laugh) reminds me of him.
I feel the love you feel for me, and in ways I can't ever explain as deeply as I want to I do in fact love you. But, this experience has taught me that it's time to stop trying to just let things pass me by. After Serge left and the time worlds became one again, I was alone. There was nothing I could do about it either; it was as if for the first time in my life I was totally helpless. But not this time, no this time I am going to do something about it and I mean now.
I promised Serge I would find him and go back to his world, I promised him and by heaven and hell and all that is glory I will GAH" Kidd gargled. Patch gasped as he suddenly saw a fiercely enraged Lynx behind Kidd, grasping her slender neck and cheeks with razor sharp claws and fangs bared in a growl. Before Patch could lift his sword he was blasted by Lynx, flaring a striking purple lighting bolt blast at the boy. Patch flew back with a thud.
Energies sizzled in his patched up clothes as the painful spinning that circled his head was taking it's toll on Patch's brain as he moaned. "Impossible I saw Patch AIE" Kidd squeaked as she felt the fangs nip at her neck. Lynx snickered "Not my fault you brainless brats refuse to listen. I told you before, you can't kill a ghost I'm nothing more then a shadow. So no matter how many times you zap me, cut me up, or blow me up, I will NEVER die".
Slowly Patch staggered to his feet with his Miracalcon blade raised and ready for battle. "That maybe so but you can still feel pain and you can obviously tire out, I sense that lighting bolt was the last bit of magic you had left" Patch said. The grip held on Kidd grew tighter, Lynx pressed his claws right at the tender flesh of Kidd's young neck with a laugh. Like the hero he was, Patch cursed himself in rage and lowered the sword from Kidd's body.
Lynx laughed "Go ahead boy, play the hero role just one more time. Get up on your white horse, kill the bad guy, get the girl, and live happily ever after, but your not going to because you know there won't be an ever after. No, not unless you want to kill her just to get to me. Besides even if you had the balls to impale the both of us, I would still survive it. As long as the curse remains in her body, my shadow will always be around to haunt you boy".
The idea sparked in Patch's mind like a fire from inside his very soul, his face painted into a smug smirk raising the magical blade up once more. "What are you doing?" Lynx asked Kidd too had a worried look on her young face, "That's it, that's the answer, it all makes sense" Patch said. Lynx pressed the claws to Kidd once more, trying to dismantle any heroic ideas Patch was cooking up. But Kidd looked at Patch with fading worry.
That look he had in his eye, that powerful and passionate look he held in that beautiful blue eye. Even though she openly told Patch she didn't love him the way she loved Serge, he was still risking his life for hers, and as crazy as his idea seemed, Kidd knew it was going to be all right. "Now Kidd I know how this looks but no matter what happens to you got" Patch started, "I trust you Patch, I love Serge best but I trust you alone now mate" Kidd butted in.
Panic and fear filled those yellow eyes, Lynx knew something was wrong so he growled and pricked Kidd's neck savagely warning Patch. "Back off boy I swear I'll cut her throat, I'll make her nightmare yours for all eternity" Lynx said. Ignoring the pleas and accepting the risks, Patch bravely charged forward screaming valiantly, Kidd closed her cerulean blue eyes and bit her lip tightly. The young traveler's hearts beating together in one fast beat.
"RAHHH" Lynx, Kidd, and Patch screamed out, so loud their voices cried out to the banshees of the universe, a cry before the storm silences them all. SHANK! The sound of sliced flesh and splattering blood could be heard, Kidd and Lynx's eyes lit up with fiery diamonds of indescribable pain. Patch looked down at the blade and smirked; Kidd winced but looked down as well. The Miracalcon sword was only in a few inches of Kidd's bare belly.
In fact as the girl would soon realize as she cried out feeling the blade be pulled from her chest, it wasn't Kidd or Lynx that Patch was aiming for. A vile black cockroach like creature squirmed out of the splatter of blood from Kidd's wound. Patch growled and raised the sword up high before slicing the beast into black goo with a single slash. "Wrong, this nightmare is over and this vile vermin is the proof of it" Patch said before turning to Kidd.
Clearly the breathless beauty was baffled beyond all wits, never has such cheeks or lovely eyes been filled with such blushing confusion. "What the bloody bilge rats just happened?" Kidd asked curiously. But her question would have to wait till the ear bleeding screams of Lynx died out. The mad demon cat was crying in voices of demon, and monstrous nature. The furry cat's face was distorting and seemingly becoming blurry shards of dust.
Electrical flashes surged all over Lynx, a demonic cat skeleton could be seen before the cat man clawed his face into a bursting blast of cosmic dust. "Nine lives no more" Patch said with a chuckle, Kidd turned wide eyed to Patch before reaching his face, eye to eye. "What will it take for you to tell me what just happened?" Kidd said, Patch tried to begin but was taken back by a passionate kiss on the lips. The young boy blushed brightly at this.
"Yeah that'll do" he said blushing and laughing out loud, a cheery laugh that Kidd joined right along with him. It just felt so good to laugh again, to relax, enjoy life, enjoy love, finally Kidd was free. Patch laughed "So you see that's the whole story". Big blue cerulean eyes blinked as Kidd rubbed her temple, "Okay I think I got this right. You're saying that WAY back when Lynx stabbed me and poisoned me with the hydra venom, he bugged me.
As in literally putting an ancient creature called a nighcharsick beetle in my body. Which is how Lynx was able to give me those nightmares, hallucinations, and why you couldn't kill him? Because Lynx was just a physical illusion caused by the magic of the beetle's workings, is that right?" Kidd asked. Patch nodded "That's right so when I stabbed you I was aiming for you or Lynx, by killing the bug Lynx had nothing to grow power off of".
"Patch I don't know where to begin to thank you, you've given me back my head, my dreams, my life, and I" "But not your love" Patch cut off Kidd. The boy continued to speak as he sheathed his blade, stared lovingly to Kidd "And I have to learn to accept that..I know. Maybe I will, maybe I won't, but the important thing is to make you happy. I may not be the one you love but that doesn't mean I don't love you with all of my heart and soul Kidd.
And if I had the "key" to the one thing you wanted the most, the one thing you've searched so long for, who am I to keep it from you? I hope you can accept this gift as a token of my heart". Slowly and carefully, Patch lifted his green fingerless gloves to his black eye patch and lifted it up. Almost immediately a HUGE blinding flash light of energy engulfed the whole room. Kidd gasped as Patch vanished from site as she cried out "I'm sorry".
Suddenly Kidd was gone from the room, and Patch was left closing his bad eye with a sobbing tear escaping it as he replied "So am I..so am I". Another surge of light appeared and Kidd dropped down hard on a sandy beach, her lips gasp as she finds her old clothes back on her, good as new. Kidd searched around to see where she was, confused until she saw something. Until she saw a shape and could only reply "..Serge?".
******
THE END!
(For now)