Chapter 6- The Final Battle
"Where am I?" Yohko looked around. She was in.... some sort of forest. Alone... What was that? The ground started rumbling. Seconds later, a giant firey shadow rose up... It was the fire lord. Eyes narrowed, Yohko reached for her sword. But it wasn't there. Her materia was gone, too. What else was there to do? She panicked. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH!!!!" She screamed and tried to run. But she couldn't move. She could only just stand there as the evil creature bore down on her... she screamed.
Yohko awoke, soaked with sweat, and breathing hard.
BRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGG!!!!!! BRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!
"Victoria! Phone for you!! It's Tara!!" Kitty Anne yelled but Victoria didn't hear since she was dancing just to clear her mind. Kitty Anne then barged in when she figured out that Victoria couldn't hear her. "Did you hear me?! I said that Tara's on the phone and she wants to talk to you!" She yelled. "Ok Ok." Victoria replied taking the phone and turning down her music. "Hiya Tara! What's up?" She said. *Nothin' much. *
"Coolies! So why'd you call?" Victoria asked while sprawling out on her blue bed. *I was just wondering if you'd like to go to the mall with me this morning. We'll make it an all day excursion! *"I'm really sorry Tara but I already had plans today." Victoria replied. *Oh. Ok. I guess I could the Amber beast to go with me. Call me when you get home, ok? * "Sure thing! Bai!" Victoria said while hanging up and looking at the clock. Time: 9:59."Oh man!!! I better get going to Mitopia!!!" She said.
"Are you okay!?"
"We heard a scream!"
Yohko opened her eyes. She'd been lying in bed. Her heart was still beating hard from her dream, and she'd been trying to relax. Trunks and Gohan stood in her doorway. "Yeah..." she replied sleepily. "I'm fine... I just had a bad dream."
After getting dressed in a blue baby tee that said Angel one it in blue glitter and a pair of blue jean shorts, Victoria was about to leave her room when she almost forgot to give the phone back to Kitty Anne. She grabbed the phone and started to walk out of her room when she tripped over a wire and her ankle started to hurt...badly. "OWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Victoria screamed out with tears streaming down her face. Kitty Anne raced in. "Victoria!! Are you ok?!" She said. "I-I'm not sure Kitty!!!"
"My ankle hurts really really bad!!!" Victoria wailed. "Let's get you to a doctor, ok? And if you are heading to Mitopia, I'm going with you!" Kitty Anne said. She then helped Victoria up and walked with her to a doctor's office.
GW Yohko: Yohko drummed her fingers on the table. "I wonder where Victoria is." After finally convincing the two half-saiyans that she was okay, she had gotten dressed (jeans and a dark purple tank top) and come out to the kitchen. "She's late."
About an hour later, Victoria and Kitty Anne were heading towards the park. "Ok Kitty Anne. This'll be a shocker for ya. We're heading to another planet. I'm meeting up with my friend Yohko who lives on the planet we're going to. We're going to be teleporting there on the count of three.1...2...3." Victoria said and then teleported away to Mitopia with Kitty Anne.
"Ohayo, Yohko!"
"Ah! Ohayo Fuj!" Yohko grinned when the cat-girl teleported into her kitchen. "You ready to fight the final lord?"
"Oh yeah!" She exclaimed, confidently. "SO when are we gonna go kick some butt?"
"Be patient. I'm waiting for Victoria..."
Victoria knocked on Yohko's door. "Sorry I'm late! I sorta hurt myself in a clumsy streak I had this morning. I also brung Kitty Anne with me. She's my twin sister." Victoria said.
Yohko looked worried. "You hurt yourself? Are you gonna be able to fight? Oh, by the way, it's nice to meet you Kitty Anne!"
"Nice to meet you too Yohko. I've heard a lot about you from Victoria." Kitty Anne said. "Don't worry. I'll be able to fight. My ankle is pretty much fine now." Victoria said while cringing." It just...hurts a lot." "I'm thinking that your guys are going somewhere to fight, am I right? If I am, I'll stay here so I don't get in the way." Kitty Anne said.
"That's a good idea," responded the violet-eyed girl. "I'm sure you'll find plenty to do..." She closed her eyes for a moment, as if concentrating. "My friend, Akira, is coming over. She can help you out, okay? She's really nice."
"Ok. Thank you!" Kitty Anne said. "I might end up baking some cookies if that's ok." "Kitty anne is a GREAT cook! And her cookies are totally delicious!" Victoria exclaimed.
Yohko laughed. "If you need any, you can find plenty of cookbooks in the kitchen. I cook a lot, too."
"I'm here! Ohayo, Yohko! Ohayo Victoria!" Akira arrived, grinning. "And you must be Kitty Anne. Ohayo to you, too!"
"Alright, so we should get going, hm?" She then called into the house, "Trunks! Gohan! Come on, we're going!"
"Ohayo Akira!" Kitty Anne said. 'Boy are Trunks and Gohan in for a bit of a shocker when they see Kitty Anne' Victoria thought
Trunks and Gohan came to the door. "Yohko?" asked Gohan. "What DOES the fire lord look like any-- " He noticed the twins. "Wait a minute..." Trunks blinked, confused. "There are... two Victorias."
Victoria giggled. "Guys, meet Kitty Anne Waterflower. My identical twin sister! Kitty Anne, the two guys are Trunks Briefs and Son Gohan. His first name is Gohan though." Victoria said. "Nice to met you Trunks and Gohan." Kitty Anne said.
"Oh... hello Kitty Anne," Gohan greeted her.
"Nice to meet you," said Trunks.
"Well, come on guys. Let's go!" Yohko took off running through the forest.
"See ya later Kitty anne! WAIT UP YOHKO!!!!" Victoria exclaimed and then ran after Yohko.
Trunks bowed quickly to Kitty Anne. "It was nice meeting you." He than dashed off after Yohko and Victoria.
"Yeah, seeya!" Gohan followed to others.
"Wait for meeee!!" Fuj shot out of the house and after the others.
In a few moments, they were gone. Akira turned to Kitty Anne. "So... come on in!" She led her inside. Yohko screeched to a halt at the edge of the desert.
"Ok." Kitty Anne replied walked inside Yohko's house. Victoria attempted to do the same as Yohko but ended up stumbling and crashing into Yohko. "Uhhh...sorry?" Victoria said while giggling slightly.
Yohko giggled. "It's okay."
Gohan comes running up since he was running after them and trips right over them landing on top of Victoria. "Owww...uhh Gohan?" Victoria said. "Wha...?" Gohan said dazed.
Yohko sweatdropped. "Come on guys. Get up."
"Gohan needs to get up first. Let's just hope that Trunks won't be next. Now Gohan can please do me a favor?" Victoria said. "Yeah?" He replied. "GET OFFA ME!!!!" Victoria yelled but not loudly as to not let Yohko go deaf.
Yohko cringed at the yell and managed to squirm out of the pile... and then Trunks ran out of the jungle and ran into Yohko tossing both of them back on top of the pile. "Owwww...." Yohko moaned.
"This.... is.... not pleasant..."Victoria said and just happened to be at the bottom. "Can somebody please get off?" Gohan said.
Trunks sweatdropped. "Ehhh... sorry." He got off the top of the pile, allowing Yohko to get up also.
Gohan also got up and then helped Victoria up. "Thanks!" She replied.
Yohko sweatdropped. "Alright guys, let's get going." She started walking through the desert.
"Ok. "Victoria replied walking after Yohko
About 20 minutes later, the group had reached the healing spring. "Guys... I think we're almost there." Yohko commented. "It couldn't be much farther..."
"Okie Dokie. I guess I should transform now." Victoria said while pulling out a silver chain necklace with an ice blue snowflake charm on it from underneath her shirt. She closed her eyes and concentrated on the necklace in her hand. "Mercury, bestow thou princess archer power upon me, Princess Victoria. Mercury's Princess Archer Power come forth!!" Victoria said. In a flash of light, she was wearing her outfit as Mercury's Princess Archer except now there was a silver snowflake on one of the sleeves of the shirt.
"Fire... fire..." Yohko muttered. She stopped then, too. "I need to fix my materia. And Victoria... while we're here, maybe you should take a sip from the healing spring. I mean, since you twisted your ankle this morning..." Yohko advised to Victoria while fixing some materia in her sword and armlet.
"Ok." Victoria said while walking towards the Healing Spring and cupped a little bit in her hands and took a sip.
"Alright, I'm ready now. Let's go." The group continued walking. A few minutes later, the ground started to shake. "Wha... what's going on?"
"It must be the lord we're supposed to face." Victoria said.
"Y-yeah... I wonder what it could be?" A second later, the ground dropped beneath the group. They landed in what looked like the inside of a volcano. It was hot, too. Very hot.
"I guess this it ya'll...the final lord. You guys ready?" Victoria said. "I am." Gohan replied
"So'm I." Yohko replied.
"Me too," said Trunks.
"Me three!" Fuj exclaimed, teleporting in.
"There you are Fuj! So anyway... let's go!" Yohko exclaimed. They went through a small tunnel and came to an area similar to the first. There was a big rock in the middle, where a Charizard sat. Greetings, humans.
"Are you the final lord?" Victoria asked.
Yes I am. I'm assuming you want to fight with me?
"Yes. We do." Victoria replied.
You actually think you can destroy me? Ha! But very well, I will fight you.
With a roar, the Charizard dove at the group.
"Ultimate Ice Chain!!! Starlight Shattering Ice!!! Combine!!!" Victoria yelled out sending out a chain of ice and a bunch of shards of ice shaped like stars at the Charizard.
Yohko held her arm in front of her face, concentrating on the materia in it. "Shiva!" Yohko faded out, and in her place an ice blue woman hovering a few feet above the ground. She raised her hand and ice shout out, hitting the Charizard. She then faded out, and Yohko reappeared.
"Snowflakes, fall to the ground. Rain, fall to the ground. Ice, freeze over everything except for me and my friends. Snowflake, Rain, Ice Combine!" Victoria said while sending out a shot of snowflakes, rain, and ice that froze the Charizard in place
. "Fuj! Now!" Yohko shouted. They linked arms so that Yohko's left hand held Fuj's right hand. Then, they each raised the free hand, palms towards the Charizard and closed their eyes.
"Tora..." Yohko started.
"Ha..." Fuj continued.
"KOSEN!" Their eyes opened in a flash as a blue beam of light came out of Yohko's hand and a green beam came out of Fuj's. They connected about halfway towards the Charizard and formed into a silhouette of a tiger. The tiger charged at the creature and slammed into, surrounding it with purple light, then disappearing.
Victoria closed her eyes and started to glow ice blue. "Mercury's Ultimate Attack!! Water Daggers!! Starlight Water Chain!! Water and Snow Dragons!! Icy Arrows!! COMBINE!!!!" She shouted out and shot out 10 daggers made of water, a chain of water shaped like a star, and 2 dragons, one made of water and the other made of snow but even after the attack, she was still glowing ice blue and rain drops and flower petals started to swirl around her.
Gohan and Trunks then attacked the Charizard, which was stunned by all the sudden, strong attacks. Yohko also noticed Victoria... "Vik? What's going... on?"
"Waterflower Ultimate Attack!!! WATERFLOWER BEAM!!!!!!!!" Victoria yelled out and shot out a blue beam that had flower petals swirling around it.
"Yow!" Yohko exclaimed. ".... That's a new one."
"My family's ultimate attack. Kitty Anne and me learned from my dad when we were little. It was the final thing he taught me and Kitty Anne before he died." Victoria said." I remembered it just now and I sorta added somethin' new to it."
"Oh... it's very nifty." Yohko turned to the Charizard. "And I think it's angry."
"Yep. One of my specialties. Making things angry." Victoria replied pulling out 15 arrows.
"I think it doesn't like feeling outmatched... Gah!" The Charizard breathed fire at the group. Yohko dove off to the side.
Victoria backflipped to the side to avoid the attack.
Trunks, Gohan, and Fuj dove off to the side. "Yow!" The cat-girl exclaimed, when her tail got singed.
"Fuj, you okay?" asked Yohko.
"I'm fine!"
"Ice Arrows!!" Victoria said while shooting 15 arrows at Charizard.
"Vic... Victoria? Don't you... think something's wrong here? Doesn't this seem a little to easy to you?" Yohko asked nervously.
"Yeah. A bit TOO easy." Victoria replied. "I was thinking that it'd be harder than this to beat it."
"And it's barely done anything to attack..."
"Except breathe fire at us and charge towards us but we've been able to dodge it."
"It could be... trying to trick us. Oh no!" Yohko exclaimed suddenly. Victoria turned around to see the Charizard suddenly dive at Trunks and Gohan and slam into the ground.
"Victoria! It... it WAS just tricking us!" Yohko shouted.
"I thought it was up to something!!! We gotta go help them!!" Victoria exclaimed.
"Come on!" Yohko started scrambling over rocks to get to the almost unconscious saiyans.
Victoria followed running as fast as she could.
Reaching Trunks and Gohan, Yohko pulled out a green stone and passed it quickly over them.
"You guys ok?" Victoria said when they woke up. "Sort of. I feel like a bus hit me." Gohan said.
"Well, that's to be expected." Yohko bit her lip. "But, I'm really worried. This is going to harder than I thought."
"Yeah." Victoria replied. "Seems that it will."
Yohko sighed and helped Trunks to his feet. She turned and looked at the Charizard... that looked like it was about to attack.
"Think I should attack it?" Victoria said while helping Gohan up.
"Yes, try."
"Alright." Victoria said and then closed her eyes and started glowing ice blue with raindrops and flower petals surround her. Victoria opened her eyes and held one hand over her head. "Waterflower Family Ultimate Attack!! Waterflower Beam!!" Victoria sent out an ice blue beam that was surrounded with water droplets and flower petals towards the Charizard hitting it in the tail.
The Charizard snorted.
"Guys? We... we need to work together for this." Yohko said. They all linked hands, Trunks holding Yohko's hand, who held Victoria's hand, who held Gohan's hand, who held Fuj's hand. "We can do this guys. Come on!" Yohko shouted. The group started to glow with a soft yellow light.
Victoria was holding Yohko's and Gohan's hands at the same time while thinking, 'I can't die yet. I want to have the chance to go to a famous dance school.' "Yohko's right ya'll! We can't doubt ourselves!" Victoria said out loud.
Yohko closed her eyes. "I remember something... long ago...
'Darkness is seen
In the day and the night...
But it always will be
Defeated by light.
With love in your heart
And good in your soul
You must work together
And reach your goal.'" Yohko's eyes started glowing gold.
Victoria closed her eyes and remembered something from when she and her twin sister they little.
Flashback...
"My little princesses, please remember that we will always love you for what you are even if we die." A woman that had short sky blue hair said as she put 2 twin babies in to their crib. 'Hey...that's my mom and me and Kitty Anne when we were babies.' Victoria thought.
The scene suddenly flashed to when she and Kitty Anne were 4 years old and it was only a week before they would turn 5 and she was playing with a 10-year-old boy that looked sort of like them but had blackish bluish hair. 'Wait a sec.... me and Kitty Anne have a brother?!' Victoria thought surprised. "Come and catch me if ya can Shiro!"4-year-old Victoria yelled out while running from her older brother. "Oh I'll catch you alright Victoria!" The boy said
'I saw somebody like that while running to school just a few days ago. Could it be...?!'Victoria thought. "Victoria! Kitty Anne! Shiro! Your dad and I will be leaving now. Don't forget that we will always love you." Their mother said and then got into a car. The scene flashed again to the very rainy night of when she, Kitty Anne, and Shiro had found out that their parents had died. 'I still remember what mom said. She and Dad are watching over me and Kitty Anne and Shiro this very moment. 'They still love us. I can't forget that.' Victoria said and then opened her eyes and started to glow ice blue.
Trunks closed his eyes 'I can't die...My...my mother. I have to get back to her!' He reopened his eyes, glowing purple.
"This can't be over... we have to defeat the evil! My father would never have given up.' Gohan started to glow orange. Beside him, Fuj began to glow green.
"United we stand and we won't give up until the bitter end. United we stand, United we fall, we don't give up no matter what." Victoria said while thinking about a poem she had written that the first stanza said exactly like that.
The Charizard stared, astonished, at the group. They're stronger than I thought...
"Good... will... prevail." Yohko said slowly. "We will win..."
Suddenly the other group, Yohko, Victoria, Trunks, Gohan, and Fuj, began to glow a rainbow of colors. "Dragon... Crystal... FLASH!" They all screamed together.
A soft yellow beam headed from the group towards the giant Charizard hitting it critically
It fell back, and then began to glow with fire. The whole volcanic area began shake. Then, with a burst of light, the Charizard disappeared. But the area was still shaking... "We have to get out of her!" Gohan shouted. He picked up Victoria and flew up out of it.
"Come on, let's go!" Trunks shouted at Yohko.
"Just... a second. She jumped down to where the Charizard had been and picked up a firey red stone. "Ohh... that attack was intense. I'm exhausted." She tried to fly back up, but started to fall unconscious.
"Yohko!" Trunks flew down and caught her, then flew up, followed by Fuj. Just as they got out, the whole place collapsed into the ground.
"That was intense." Victoria said.
"Hai." Fuj said softly.
Gohan looked around. "But... we did it." He, and the rest of the group were all breathing hard. "What WAS that attack, though? I've never heard than name in my life."
"I never heard of it in either of my two lives." Victoria said. "My sister may have made some cookies so we can probably have some if she has."
"Mmm.... cookies..."Yohko murmured, before closing her eyes completely.
"We should find that healing spring." Fuj commented. "We're all exhausted.
"Yeah." Victoria said and then felt a stinging pain in her ankle. "Plus, my ankle now hurts again." She added while cringing
Gohan looked off into the distance, shielding his eyes from the sun. "Which way is it?"
Victoria then closed her eyes and scanned the surface of the planet for the healing springs. She then spotted it not too far away from them. She then opened her eyes and she pointed forward and then down. "We just need to go forward a little bit more and then land and we should be at the Healing Springs." Victoria said.
"Right." Gohan blushed. "Um, Victoria? Do you need any help? I mean, with your ankle and all..."
"Not sure. It depends on how bad it hurts. If it hurts as bad as it did this morning when I arrived with Kitty Anne, I will." Victoria replied. "Hey, why're you blushing Gohan?" She added on.
Gohan turned a darker red. "Um, no reason. See if you can walk on it..."
"Ok." Victoria said when they landed and then hopped out of Gohan's arms only to be greeted with a very big pain in her ankle when she put her weight on it. "Oww!!!!" Victoria wailed and then fell down.
"Victoria!" Gohan exclaimed. He bent over and picked her up.
"Thanks Gohan." Victoria said when Gohan helped her up.
So the group started walking in the direction of the hot spring. Fuj suddenly spoke up, breaking the silence. "What do you guys think those stones Yohko was collecting are for?"
"I haven't the slightest clue actually I have been meaning to ask her but I've just forgot with all the stuff I've been learning in band lately and the project I have due next Friday for English." Victoria replied.
"There must be some reason... oh hey! Look! There's the spring!" Fuj pointed ahead of them and started to run towards it.
Gohan started to run after Fuj while holding Victoria in his arms while Victoria, in turn, threw her arms around his neck on instinct by pure accident without knowing.
Gohan blushed and stumbled. Which was kinda bad since he was running. "Gah!" he exclaimed as he tripped and fell, dropping Victoria, who landed in the healing spring. Fuj and Trunks started laughing.
Victoria fell into the healing spring and then surfaced about a minute afterward soaking wet. "Oh man. Lemme guess, I kinda accidentally threw my arms around your neck, didn't I Gohan? I'm really sorry!" Victoria said when she surfaced.
"Oh, no Victoria! I'M sorry! I dropped you! Are you okay?" Gohan exclaimed.
Fuj giggled. "Of COURSE she is, silly! She fell into a healing spring!"
Victoria climbed out of the spring and walked over to Gohan. "It's ok. I'm alright, see? I'm walkin' aren't I?" She said to him." Now where is my charm bracelet? I placed it in my pocket before we got to the final lord." She said to herself while rummaging around in her pockets.
"Yohko, wake up." Trunks shook the girl. "Nn..." Yohko slowly opened her eyes. "Oh... are we back... already?"
"No, but drink this." He helped her drink from the spring.
"Victoria, what are you looking for?" Fuj asked.
"Something I got for my birthday. It's my charm bracelet." Victoria said just as she pulled it out of her pocket and showed it to Fuj. It had 4 charms on a silver chain. One of the charms was a 4-leaf clover and a horseshoe with it. Another one was a bike, which Kitty Anne had said that she couldn't fall off of. One other charm that was on the bracelet was a little kitty charm, which sorta represented her love for kitties. The final charm on it was a blue sapphire heart that was her favorite. "The sapphire charm is my favorite charm on it and according to my friends, it cost the most." She said.
"Oh... it's pretty."
"And if you're wondering about the bike, Kitty Anne got it for me as a joke. When I was looking at the charms and came across the bike, she said that I couldn't fall off of it 'cause I used to have a bike that I'd fall off of once a year by accident." Victoria said while sweatdropping at the memory.
Yohko stood up, blushing. "So... shall we go?"
"I guess I'll be seeing you guys." Fuj grinned. "I'm outta here." She filled a bottle with the healing elixir and vanished.
"Sure!" Victoria replied.
"Alright, let's get going!" Yohko said. The four remaining began to walk.
Victoria followed after fastening her bracelet on her wrist. "I wonder if Kitty Anne made any cookies. I hope she did." Victoria said outloud while thinking about her sister's homemade cookies.
"Mmm... I hope so too."
"Any ideas on what the attack we all did back there against the final lord was?" Victoria said bringing up that topic once again.
Gohan looked thoughtful. "Dragon Crystal Flash... hm... what were you guys thinking about before that happened? I was... thinking about my mother and my father, how they would never want me to give up. And I was thinking about how I had to get back to them. I couldn't just die..."
"I was... thinking of that poem I heard. My mother...a long time ago when I was just a baby. Right before she put me in that space pod she told me that. I will always remember that. Because she believed in me..." Yohko responded.
Victoria's expression softened. "I thought about my life before my parents died and I also found out that I have an older brother who I have an intention to find. All I know about him is that his name is Insenshiro Waterflower. I don't know where he lives or anything like that." She said.
"Hey! Wait up!" Victoria yelled and then ran after her.
Yohko slowed down a bit so the group could catch up. Ina few moments, they had made it to the jungle. "Oh... home sweet home!" Yohko exclaimed and hugged the nearest tree.
Victoria walked inside and looked for her sister. "Heelloo! We're baack! "She yelled.
But instead of her sister, Akira popped up in front of her, munching on a cookie. "We made cookies!" She held it up.
"Kewl! Hey Akira, where's my sister?" Victoria replied.
"In the kitchen. We were cleaning up when I heard the door open." Behind her, a door opened and Kitty Anne stepped out.
"Hiya Kitty Anne!" Victoria chirped. "Hi there Victoria. Where's everyone else?" Kitty Anne asked. "I think their outside. Last I saw Yohko was hugging a tree." She replied.
"Nope, I'm right here." Yohko walked in, followed by Trunks and Gohan.
"Kitty Anne and Akira made cookies!" Victoria chirped and stole one from the pan Kitty Anne brought out. She then proceeded to take a bite out of it.
"Oooooooh! Cookies! What kind?"
Victoria swallowed her bite from her cookie. "Her specialty! Chocolate chip M & M cookies!" Victoria exclaimed happily.
"Sweet!" Yohko took one and took a bite out of it.
"So... did you save the planet?" Akira asked.
"You bet! We all did."
"Well? Details!"
"Come on, let's all explain..." Yohko lead the rest into the living room.
