(A/N: And here it is. The last chapter. I'd like to thank all of you who joyfully reviewed my first JGR fic. I hope to be writing more in the future. ON WITH THE CHAPTER!)
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"No way, man. We're going, and that's that!" Tab and Garam glared over at the distressed Beat, their brows furrowed in fury, "We aint just gonna sit around while you guys go out there and fight those bastards when you're outnumbered. We can do something!"
"Guys, I know how you feel, but I don't want you two to get hurt worse than you already are. Yeah, you're getting better, and yeah, you can still skate, but I guarantee that you are the first ones they'll go after. You aren't that quick in your condition, and I'll be willing to bet you'll be on your backs before you know it. I just have a feeling these guys have more on their mind then just beating us. I think they may just try to take us out."
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Tab and Garam won, of course, and were allowed to join their fellow GGs as they skated on in silence toward the Shinjo lot. Beat just hoped they didn't end up dead...
"We there yet, yo?" Yo-Yo piped up once again.
"For the fifth time in ten minutes Yo-Yo, no we are not there yet." Gum shot back at him, "We still got a good half-hour to go. We have to...." she lowered her voice to a whisper and leaned over near him, "We gotta go slow for Tab and Garam."
"I heard that."
"Shup Tab" (A/N: No, that isn't a typo.)
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"What is he doing over there?" Dicey whispered to Dante, quirking a brow over at Jackal, who seemed to be talking to himself in a corner.
"What do you think he's doing, Dice? He's talking to the boss."
"About what, might I ask?"
"How the hell should I know? I don't give a damn about what I do. Soon as he gets the last piece from the kid, then we'll be able to use the Contract for our own.....purposes." Dante let out a chuckle, putting an arm around Dicey. "Hell wil be ours for the taking. And Lucifer will finally be put in his place.... "
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"How much longer, yo?" complained Yo-Yo
"I swear, Yo-Yo," Gum glared over at him, "if you don't shut up I'll-"
"Hey, we're there. Keep it down." Combo looked expressionlessly over at the two.
"Got it."
The gang skated slowly towards the lot, past what looked like to be the remains of a door, into a huge broken down building. The place was gigantic. "This place is bigger than a Home Depot." Slate commented.
"Glad you like it," a voice boomed from above them, "for it will be your grave."
The GG's collective head snapped up towards the roof. Rio's eyes narrowed at the
shadowed figure above them. "Jackal..."
"Hello, brother. So glad to see you again. And you with the GGs still? Haven't you told them about your little secret? No doubt they would have thrown you out by now if you had."
Slowly, the rudies' eyes all shifted back down to the young Rio, who was still glaring up at his brother, his breathing hard and audible. "No. I'm not like you Jackal. I'm not!" he sounded as if he was trying to convince himself more than his brother.
"What is he talking about Rio?" Mew asked, her brows furrowed in confusion.
"Ha. I knew you wouldn't tell them. Well, then, as a parting gift, the last you'll ever receive, I will show you."
Suddenly, Rio stumbled back, writhing in pain, his teeth gritted. "My.....head..."
"What are you doing to him?!?" Beat demanded, yelling up into the dark rafters above.
"Oh, please, GG. I'm not going to kill him....yet. You will know soon enough. Just watch....
The GGs turned, staring concernedly at the young rudie.
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Pain shot through his entire body. Bolt after bolt of searing, blinding pain hit him one after another. It seemed to last forever. Slowly, the pain seemed to ebb away, and he saw, blurrily, the GGs staring at him, shocked looks on their faces. He couldn't look at them. It hurt too much. He let his neck relax, his head hung limp, and he was looking down at his clenched hands. No....not his. Those hands weren't his....those hands had claws growing out of the fingers. Like Jackal's. Twisting his head around, he saw what he feared the most. His elbows, too, had dark horns growing from them. Suddenly, the top of his forehead began to itch, like there was a fly crawling around on it. But he knew it was no fly. He felt the sticky warmth, and saw the dark liquid drip down his face, past his red-rimmed eyes. It was blood. Black blood. So it was true all along. Everything Jackal had said.....all true.
"So you finally see, brother. I was right all along. You should have known better than to doubt me." There was a blur above them, and the shadowed figure leapt from the rafters, landing with a huge THUD on the creaky wooden floorboards below their feet.
Jackal.....in his demonic form.
"Damn, yo. Way too many freaks up in here. I's freakin' me out, yo." Yo-Yo looked from Rio to Jackal, fear plainly showing in his face.
"Come, brother. Let us leave these wayward rudies to their fates....." Jackal smirked at the GGs. "Do not worry. The Inferno Jets will be here momentarily to dispose of you for good."
Rio had managed to get up to a knee, a pained expression on his blood-streaked face, as if gravity were pushing him down and it hurt just to get up. "I'm....I'm not going anywhere with you."
Jackal rolled his eyes, before letting out a quick chuckle. "Oh, please, not this again, Rio, I'm really getting tired of it. You are coming with me whether you like it or not." He held up his middle finger and thumb and snapped. It was an insignificant gesture. But....
Rio felt himself lift up off the floor. His eyes widened as he kicked and struggled against it, as he floated towards his brother.
"Much better."
The GGs stood in shock at what they were seeing, before Gum snapped them out of it. "Get back here!" she yelled, dashing after the two.
"Stop right there GG." Jackal turned toward her, glaring at her with his black-pupiled eyes. Screeching to a halt, she did her best to look back at him, unafraid, though unsuccessful. "You have bigger things to worry about. Foolish girl. INFERNO JETS! ATTACK!" With that command, he simply walked off, his brother in tow. The two walked down a staircase, and disappeared into the darkness below...
"What'chou think he was talking about, yo? I don't see no Inferno Jets. How 'bout ya'll?" Yo-Yo glanced all around the place, which had ample hiding spots, but no signs of life.
"I see 'em!" a voice called
"Really, yo? Where?"
"Right behind you."
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"Do you accept it now, brother? Do you accept who you are....what your purpose on this pathetic earth is?" Jackal continued to descend down the long, winding staircase.
".....yes....."
"Good. But even if you didn't, it matters not. Now that you are in your true form, I can finally fulfill our mission." He finally stopped as they arrived at a set of wooden double doors, dingy and cracked. Jackal held a hand out to them and they crumbled inward, collapsing like a house of cards. Calmly, he walked into yet another unusual setting.
An ordinary room. Four plain walls, a floor, and a roof. Absolutely normal, save for the huge hole that blazed with hellfire located in the middle of the room. "The passage home, Rio." he snapped once again, and Rio fell abruptly to the floor, before scrambling up.
"Why are we here? Are we going....there?" Rio asked, keeping his eyes locked on Jackal's still-turned back.
"Back home? No, not quite. I won't be going there for quite a while, and you..."
he turned to face his younger brother, an evil grin upon his face, "you will not be going there at all." There was another blur, and suddenly Jackal was right in front of him. It was only seconds later that he felt it. A sharp pain in the pit of his stomach. Looking down, he saw blood gushing from his stomach, as well as an arm protruding from it. Looking weakly back up at his brother's smiling face, he tried to speak, but it only came out as a faint whisper. "W....why?"
Another blur and Jackal held before him a piece of what looked like a record, soaked in dark-colored blood. "You'll find the answer within, Rio," Jackal mocked, "remember?"
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"WATCH OUT!" Piranha yelled out as the Inferno Jets charged in at them. They seemed to be coming from everywhere. "IT'S AN AMBUSH!"
"Really, P? Hadn't noticed, thanks."Yo-Yo replied sarcastically, trying to dodge the oncoming attacks. All hell had broken loose, but one thing was clear. There were more than ten Inferno Jets here. A lot more.
"Looks like these boys did some recruiting in their spare time." Gum commented, throwing punches at one of the Inferno Jets. Tab and Garam were teaming up on them, obviously aware that they wouldn't do all that good one on one against someone. Yo-Yo was using the duck-and-run technique, luring unsuspecting Inferno Jets into Combo's devastating attacks. Piranha and Mew were chasing after a fleeing Dicey, while Cube wasn't faring so well against two Inferno Jets that had decided to copy off of Tab and Garam's moves. Slate was engaged in what looked like a "Mercy" match with Grimm, while Beat and Dante were in an all out brawl, punching, kicking, even biting.
"We got this one in the bag, yo!" Yo-Yo said with satisfaction, leading yet another Inferno Jet into a one way trip to unconsciousness. Many Inferno Jets were sprawled out on the floor already, but some of the GGs already began to feel the pains of battle. Slate was favoring his left arm, while Piranha was crouching in a corner behind Tab and Garam, who were determined to protect their injured comrade. Gum, too, seemed to be hurt, as she limped along as opposed to skating, but still fighting off the oncoming Inferno Jets as best she could.
With a final hook from Beat, and a swing from Combo's boombox, all of the Inferno Jets had been knocked out.
"Alright," Beat gasped, almost totally out of breath, "Let's hurry up and go pay that guy Jackal a visit, and go save Rio."
"Hold up, yo? Did you not see that kid?" Yo-Yo shot back, "He turned into some sorta devil-thing like ten minutes ago, and you wanna go save him? Are you crazy? I vote we stay out of devil affairs."
"No way, man. We gotta go. You saw how freaked he was. He ain't like that. Now let's hurry up before we're too late." Beat dashed toward the door, throwing it open and stomping down the steps, followed closely by the remaining GGs. Even Yo-Yo.
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"Now, brother, now you will see the true power of this record." Taking the bloody record piece, he moved over near the huge hole. Reaching into his pocket, he produced two more pieces, which seemed to glow with a crimson hue.
"Wh....what...are you....going...to..do...?" Rio choked back a mouth full of blood.
Suddenly, the GGs ran in through the open door, all taken aback by the sight that greeted them. One demon standing over another
"Ah, look who it is. I knew those worthless Inferno Jets would be defeated, but I expected it to be longer than this. But it is of no concern. Now you all may witness my triumph....." moving over to the pit, he joined the three pieces of the record. Crimson light filled the room, as Jackal raised the completed record above his head. "Hear me, Lucifer!" he screamed down into the fiery pit, "Hear my wish, and know that it is your undoing!"
"What the hell is he doing, yo?" Yo-Yo's eyes were wide with terror as he looked on.
Jackal's head turned, now looking at them. "I will rule all of the underworld. And from there, I will invade Tokyo. Noone will be able to stop me! Noone." He let out a demonic laugh as he turned back to the pit. "Lucifer, hear my wish! I wish to rule-"
"NO! Jackal, stop!" Rio struggled to his feet, hand on his stomach, blood oozing in between his fingers, as well as dripping out of his mouth, "Don't do this. Brother......please."
"Pah. You are too weak, coward. I will rule everything. And you....you, I will kill myself." Jackal never diverted his gaze from the pit, even as he said it. "NOW! On with my.....request. I wish to rule the Underworld!"
As he said it, the ground beneath them began to rumble. The walls vibrated, and began to crack and splinter. The roof began to fall apart. Rio knew what he had to do. He turned to the shocked GGs, a faint smile on his face. "Thank you," he said, "thank you for everything." Turning back to Jackal, he rushed forward, spearing his brother and falling into the pit along with him.
As suddenly as it had started, the shaking stopped. The earthquake ceased, and the huge pit began to close slowly. Mew stepped forward, tears in her eyes. "He...he sacrificed himself."
"An' in a roundabout way, he saved us all." Combo said silently, "You heard that guy. he said he was gonna invade Tokyo. That kid Rio deserves our thanks...."
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Somewhere in the Underworld.............
"So, Jackal," a voice boomed, "You wanted to....get rid of me, did you?"
"No, no. It wasn't me," the demon pleaded, on his knees, "it was the Inferno Jets who talked me into it. Blame them!"
Flames surrounded him and began to close in on the wayward demon. "I think you are lying, Jackal. I don't like lyers, and I have an eternity to prove it to you. I will make you scream your throat raw every day from now to eternity....."
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(A/N: First off, no, I don't know how to spell lyers. Second, YAY! I'm done! I know the ending, as well as the entire last chapter is sketchily written, so please don't hesitate to tell me so. You can't hurt my feelings! Nyah Nyah! :P Heh. Thanks again for reviewing. See ya.)
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"No way, man. We're going, and that's that!" Tab and Garam glared over at the distressed Beat, their brows furrowed in fury, "We aint just gonna sit around while you guys go out there and fight those bastards when you're outnumbered. We can do something!"
"Guys, I know how you feel, but I don't want you two to get hurt worse than you already are. Yeah, you're getting better, and yeah, you can still skate, but I guarantee that you are the first ones they'll go after. You aren't that quick in your condition, and I'll be willing to bet you'll be on your backs before you know it. I just have a feeling these guys have more on their mind then just beating us. I think they may just try to take us out."
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Tab and Garam won, of course, and were allowed to join their fellow GGs as they skated on in silence toward the Shinjo lot. Beat just hoped they didn't end up dead...
"We there yet, yo?" Yo-Yo piped up once again.
"For the fifth time in ten minutes Yo-Yo, no we are not there yet." Gum shot back at him, "We still got a good half-hour to go. We have to...." she lowered her voice to a whisper and leaned over near him, "We gotta go slow for Tab and Garam."
"I heard that."
"Shup Tab" (A/N: No, that isn't a typo.)
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"What is he doing over there?" Dicey whispered to Dante, quirking a brow over at Jackal, who seemed to be talking to himself in a corner.
"What do you think he's doing, Dice? He's talking to the boss."
"About what, might I ask?"
"How the hell should I know? I don't give a damn about what I do. Soon as he gets the last piece from the kid, then we'll be able to use the Contract for our own.....purposes." Dante let out a chuckle, putting an arm around Dicey. "Hell wil be ours for the taking. And Lucifer will finally be put in his place.... "
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"How much longer, yo?" complained Yo-Yo
"I swear, Yo-Yo," Gum glared over at him, "if you don't shut up I'll-"
"Hey, we're there. Keep it down." Combo looked expressionlessly over at the two.
"Got it."
The gang skated slowly towards the lot, past what looked like to be the remains of a door, into a huge broken down building. The place was gigantic. "This place is bigger than a Home Depot." Slate commented.
"Glad you like it," a voice boomed from above them, "for it will be your grave."
The GG's collective head snapped up towards the roof. Rio's eyes narrowed at the
shadowed figure above them. "Jackal..."
"Hello, brother. So glad to see you again. And you with the GGs still? Haven't you told them about your little secret? No doubt they would have thrown you out by now if you had."
Slowly, the rudies' eyes all shifted back down to the young Rio, who was still glaring up at his brother, his breathing hard and audible. "No. I'm not like you Jackal. I'm not!" he sounded as if he was trying to convince himself more than his brother.
"What is he talking about Rio?" Mew asked, her brows furrowed in confusion.
"Ha. I knew you wouldn't tell them. Well, then, as a parting gift, the last you'll ever receive, I will show you."
Suddenly, Rio stumbled back, writhing in pain, his teeth gritted. "My.....head..."
"What are you doing to him?!?" Beat demanded, yelling up into the dark rafters above.
"Oh, please, GG. I'm not going to kill him....yet. You will know soon enough. Just watch....
The GGs turned, staring concernedly at the young rudie.
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Pain shot through his entire body. Bolt after bolt of searing, blinding pain hit him one after another. It seemed to last forever. Slowly, the pain seemed to ebb away, and he saw, blurrily, the GGs staring at him, shocked looks on their faces. He couldn't look at them. It hurt too much. He let his neck relax, his head hung limp, and he was looking down at his clenched hands. No....not his. Those hands weren't his....those hands had claws growing out of the fingers. Like Jackal's. Twisting his head around, he saw what he feared the most. His elbows, too, had dark horns growing from them. Suddenly, the top of his forehead began to itch, like there was a fly crawling around on it. But he knew it was no fly. He felt the sticky warmth, and saw the dark liquid drip down his face, past his red-rimmed eyes. It was blood. Black blood. So it was true all along. Everything Jackal had said.....all true.
"So you finally see, brother. I was right all along. You should have known better than to doubt me." There was a blur above them, and the shadowed figure leapt from the rafters, landing with a huge THUD on the creaky wooden floorboards below their feet.
Jackal.....in his demonic form.
"Damn, yo. Way too many freaks up in here. I's freakin' me out, yo." Yo-Yo looked from Rio to Jackal, fear plainly showing in his face.
"Come, brother. Let us leave these wayward rudies to their fates....." Jackal smirked at the GGs. "Do not worry. The Inferno Jets will be here momentarily to dispose of you for good."
Rio had managed to get up to a knee, a pained expression on his blood-streaked face, as if gravity were pushing him down and it hurt just to get up. "I'm....I'm not going anywhere with you."
Jackal rolled his eyes, before letting out a quick chuckle. "Oh, please, not this again, Rio, I'm really getting tired of it. You are coming with me whether you like it or not." He held up his middle finger and thumb and snapped. It was an insignificant gesture. But....
Rio felt himself lift up off the floor. His eyes widened as he kicked and struggled against it, as he floated towards his brother.
"Much better."
The GGs stood in shock at what they were seeing, before Gum snapped them out of it. "Get back here!" she yelled, dashing after the two.
"Stop right there GG." Jackal turned toward her, glaring at her with his black-pupiled eyes. Screeching to a halt, she did her best to look back at him, unafraid, though unsuccessful. "You have bigger things to worry about. Foolish girl. INFERNO JETS! ATTACK!" With that command, he simply walked off, his brother in tow. The two walked down a staircase, and disappeared into the darkness below...
"What'chou think he was talking about, yo? I don't see no Inferno Jets. How 'bout ya'll?" Yo-Yo glanced all around the place, which had ample hiding spots, but no signs of life.
"I see 'em!" a voice called
"Really, yo? Where?"
"Right behind you."
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"Do you accept it now, brother? Do you accept who you are....what your purpose on this pathetic earth is?" Jackal continued to descend down the long, winding staircase.
".....yes....."
"Good. But even if you didn't, it matters not. Now that you are in your true form, I can finally fulfill our mission." He finally stopped as they arrived at a set of wooden double doors, dingy and cracked. Jackal held a hand out to them and they crumbled inward, collapsing like a house of cards. Calmly, he walked into yet another unusual setting.
An ordinary room. Four plain walls, a floor, and a roof. Absolutely normal, save for the huge hole that blazed with hellfire located in the middle of the room. "The passage home, Rio." he snapped once again, and Rio fell abruptly to the floor, before scrambling up.
"Why are we here? Are we going....there?" Rio asked, keeping his eyes locked on Jackal's still-turned back.
"Back home? No, not quite. I won't be going there for quite a while, and you..."
he turned to face his younger brother, an evil grin upon his face, "you will not be going there at all." There was another blur, and suddenly Jackal was right in front of him. It was only seconds later that he felt it. A sharp pain in the pit of his stomach. Looking down, he saw blood gushing from his stomach, as well as an arm protruding from it. Looking weakly back up at his brother's smiling face, he tried to speak, but it only came out as a faint whisper. "W....why?"
Another blur and Jackal held before him a piece of what looked like a record, soaked in dark-colored blood. "You'll find the answer within, Rio," Jackal mocked, "remember?"
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"WATCH OUT!" Piranha yelled out as the Inferno Jets charged in at them. They seemed to be coming from everywhere. "IT'S AN AMBUSH!"
"Really, P? Hadn't noticed, thanks."Yo-Yo replied sarcastically, trying to dodge the oncoming attacks. All hell had broken loose, but one thing was clear. There were more than ten Inferno Jets here. A lot more.
"Looks like these boys did some recruiting in their spare time." Gum commented, throwing punches at one of the Inferno Jets. Tab and Garam were teaming up on them, obviously aware that they wouldn't do all that good one on one against someone. Yo-Yo was using the duck-and-run technique, luring unsuspecting Inferno Jets into Combo's devastating attacks. Piranha and Mew were chasing after a fleeing Dicey, while Cube wasn't faring so well against two Inferno Jets that had decided to copy off of Tab and Garam's moves. Slate was engaged in what looked like a "Mercy" match with Grimm, while Beat and Dante were in an all out brawl, punching, kicking, even biting.
"We got this one in the bag, yo!" Yo-Yo said with satisfaction, leading yet another Inferno Jet into a one way trip to unconsciousness. Many Inferno Jets were sprawled out on the floor already, but some of the GGs already began to feel the pains of battle. Slate was favoring his left arm, while Piranha was crouching in a corner behind Tab and Garam, who were determined to protect their injured comrade. Gum, too, seemed to be hurt, as she limped along as opposed to skating, but still fighting off the oncoming Inferno Jets as best she could.
With a final hook from Beat, and a swing from Combo's boombox, all of the Inferno Jets had been knocked out.
"Alright," Beat gasped, almost totally out of breath, "Let's hurry up and go pay that guy Jackal a visit, and go save Rio."
"Hold up, yo? Did you not see that kid?" Yo-Yo shot back, "He turned into some sorta devil-thing like ten minutes ago, and you wanna go save him? Are you crazy? I vote we stay out of devil affairs."
"No way, man. We gotta go. You saw how freaked he was. He ain't like that. Now let's hurry up before we're too late." Beat dashed toward the door, throwing it open and stomping down the steps, followed closely by the remaining GGs. Even Yo-Yo.
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"Now, brother, now you will see the true power of this record." Taking the bloody record piece, he moved over near the huge hole. Reaching into his pocket, he produced two more pieces, which seemed to glow with a crimson hue.
"Wh....what...are you....going...to..do...?" Rio choked back a mouth full of blood.
Suddenly, the GGs ran in through the open door, all taken aback by the sight that greeted them. One demon standing over another
"Ah, look who it is. I knew those worthless Inferno Jets would be defeated, but I expected it to be longer than this. But it is of no concern. Now you all may witness my triumph....." moving over to the pit, he joined the three pieces of the record. Crimson light filled the room, as Jackal raised the completed record above his head. "Hear me, Lucifer!" he screamed down into the fiery pit, "Hear my wish, and know that it is your undoing!"
"What the hell is he doing, yo?" Yo-Yo's eyes were wide with terror as he looked on.
Jackal's head turned, now looking at them. "I will rule all of the underworld. And from there, I will invade Tokyo. Noone will be able to stop me! Noone." He let out a demonic laugh as he turned back to the pit. "Lucifer, hear my wish! I wish to rule-"
"NO! Jackal, stop!" Rio struggled to his feet, hand on his stomach, blood oozing in between his fingers, as well as dripping out of his mouth, "Don't do this. Brother......please."
"Pah. You are too weak, coward. I will rule everything. And you....you, I will kill myself." Jackal never diverted his gaze from the pit, even as he said it. "NOW! On with my.....request. I wish to rule the Underworld!"
As he said it, the ground beneath them began to rumble. The walls vibrated, and began to crack and splinter. The roof began to fall apart. Rio knew what he had to do. He turned to the shocked GGs, a faint smile on his face. "Thank you," he said, "thank you for everything." Turning back to Jackal, he rushed forward, spearing his brother and falling into the pit along with him.
As suddenly as it had started, the shaking stopped. The earthquake ceased, and the huge pit began to close slowly. Mew stepped forward, tears in her eyes. "He...he sacrificed himself."
"An' in a roundabout way, he saved us all." Combo said silently, "You heard that guy. he said he was gonna invade Tokyo. That kid Rio deserves our thanks...."
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Somewhere in the Underworld.............
"So, Jackal," a voice boomed, "You wanted to....get rid of me, did you?"
"No, no. It wasn't me," the demon pleaded, on his knees, "it was the Inferno Jets who talked me into it. Blame them!"
Flames surrounded him and began to close in on the wayward demon. "I think you are lying, Jackal. I don't like lyers, and I have an eternity to prove it to you. I will make you scream your throat raw every day from now to eternity....."
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(A/N: First off, no, I don't know how to spell lyers. Second, YAY! I'm done! I know the ending, as well as the entire last chapter is sketchily written, so please don't hesitate to tell me so. You can't hurt my feelings! Nyah Nyah! :P Heh. Thanks again for reviewing. See ya.)
