Chapter 16: The Laliverian Apocalypse
A/N: Hey where did all my nice audience of reviewers go!? *cries*
The tower looked like it was about to fall into the sea. Its bottom base was supported by rock and earth. It stood almost a few yards from the sea below. Maybe the rock kept the lighthouse in place. You could see the yellow flame that now lighted the night sky like a midnight sun. The ground was still unstable, shaking the area with small growling earthquakes. The small forest of fruit bearing trees remained even after the ground being tore up by the last two years' lighting of the lighthouse. From Sheba's view, she could tell she was getting closer and closer to her home. She had missed her people. She was tired of traveling and sleeping on the dirty ground almost every night. But wasn't everyone? Jan didn't sleep on the floor at all. She would climb a tree and fall asleep inside its arms. Ivan and Picard would call her a monkey. She knew that they were always doing that. She didn't care much, not as much as Sheba did. Every now and then Jan would attack them playfully like a cub.
It reminded Ivan about the events that took place here. Picard had no idea of this place. He had only seen it when he was sailing on his Lemurian ship. He had only been in the few areas of Gondowan and Angara. He looked up at it, it looked like it was bigger than the other lighthouses.
"I've seen taller buildings than this one." Jan remarked.
"Taller?" Sheba doubted her. "But the lighthouses are the tallest buildings anywhere in Weyard."
"Not here, but where I originally came from. Don't ask me for details now. You'll find out yourself."
"Not unless I just.." Ivan went to read her mind, only to find it filled with other thoughts.
"You won't find out by reading my mind you cheater." Jan calmly said, but growled at him loudly afterwards.
Ivan snorted, "Lalivero is just around the corner almost." Ivan looked at his map. "We can make it there in about an hour."
"Then what are we waiting for? I must rescue my people!" Sheba urged to go on as fast as possible.
"It's almost sundown. We better get a move on." Picard looked up at the pink orange sky. Clouds in with the last of the suns light, making it looked like a bright pinkish purple. The land was unusually empty. No monsters, animals, or people anywhere. The day now turned into night from the hour passing.
"There's something really strange going on..." Picard sniffed the air.
"It smells a lot like smoke...something is burning!" Jan noticed bright flames blazing nearby. She guided their eyes to it.
"No...it..couldn't possibly be...Sheba's eyes began to water. She got off her Oradon and ran toward the blaze and disappeared into the darkness.
"Sheba!" Ivan ran after her.
"Come on we gotta follow!" Jan pulled the Oradons reins to follow.
"Babi...." Picard cursed under his breath.
Sheba was down on her knees, crying as hard as she ever did in her life. Her home, friends, family...gone. If she had only been there to protect them, they would be still alive. She blamed herself deeply, as now she had no where to go. The Laliverio River flowed and reflected the bright engulfing flames of the fire. She tried to help put it out by summoning the strongest rainstorm she could make. She concentrated for a few moments. The psynergy she was storing was soon released. Tears of sorrow and anger mixed together as the sky became dark and rumbling with thunder. Ivan came behind her, panting from the long run.
"Sheba..I.."
"Exactly like yesterdays vision.." She choked and sobbed. "Help me take out the fire."
He nodded and contributed his power into the developing storm. As soon as he finished, rain began pouring down in buckets as it drenched the fire. Now the only light lighting up the sky was the constant flashing streaks of lightning. It became harder for Jan and Picard to find them. "Where did they go? The fire was showing us the way there..until it gone out." Jan tried igniting a torch, but it went out. "Are we lost?"
"Sheba must have summoned this storm. It came out if nowhere." Picard said, looking worried. "Maybe Ivan helped her out, let's try going this way."
"But didn't we just go that way?"
"I don't know. It's too dark and too rainy to light a torch, or see where we are going. We can't give up the search!"
"Why did it have to end this way?" She couldn't fight back the depressing emotions that pressured her down. She fell into Ivan's shoulder and snuggled into his sleeve.
"Sheba..I'm truly sorry..." He embraced her. "Babi will truly pay for this traumatic ordeal."
"Don't mention his name," she growled. Her eyes were infuriated with anger. The angelic emerald eyes were no longer soft. They now looked like a hurricane was rampaging inside. Her eyes seemed to glow with red rather than green.
"We'll find him. He must be inside his lighthouse."
"Correct." Sheba's aura suddenly appeared, glowing in the colors of amethyst, pearl, and a cloudy grey. The environment began changing to match her current emotional status. There was less rain now, but the lightning became more severe. It looked like she could control every bolt that was flashing.
"Where are Jan and Picard? I hope they didn't get lost." Ivan was soaked to the bone from the cold rain. He shivered and hugged Sheba for warmth.
"We will see them when the time comes. I have to settle this alone with Babi himself."
I won't let you go alone! Not without me..."
"This has nothing to do with you! This was my fault that this happened.
"Babi is the one who caused this. Therefore, it isn't any of your fault!"
"Fine, but we have no time to waste." Sheba got up running toward the burned town that was once Lalivero.
"Wait Sheba...you got really emotional back there. You sure you're going to be all right?"
"I'll be fine for now."
"If you feel the need to cry at anytime, do it. I'll be there for you." He cupped her cheek and kissed her.
"I feel like this will be our last...I don't want to die early." Sheba said to him while mind reading.
She fully kissed him, more passionately that she had ever done. She got even closer to him because she was freezing since her clothes were also soaked from the rain.
"We have a demon to take care of, let's not waste any more time. We can always do that later." Ivan separated from her.
She closed her eyes and nodded. The Babi Lighthouse was shrouded in evil darkness. It was finished, but now it was to be destroyed.
"Let's get going. I want to get even now."
To their surprise, no one was even guarding the place. It's interior sure hadn't changed. In just a few minutes, they found the door that would lead them to the one person who Sheba hated the most.
"Good luck, if anything happens, to one or both of us, just remember the good times we had." Ivan pulled out his Kikuichimonji blade, ready to strike.
"We won't die, I will not allow it!" She took out her storm mace. She broke through the wooden door. He was there alright. He look liked he was already dead. His body was chained up and appeared to be floating. His red eyes shot out to look at the two little Jupiter adepts, armed with weapons.
"There's my little girl. Do you like how I "rearranged" your nice little town? He laughed evilly.
"He laughs at his own jokes." Ivan whispered to Sheba.
"I was expecting you to come..and the thief who took her from me!"
"Shut up you stupid old man!" Sheba was at it again, "You're the one who stole me in the first place!" "And you need to die again!"
"You DARE insult me in my own lair!? His mind screamed. Strong pure telepathic waves struck out at her. She yelled loudly dropping to the floor.
"You leave her alone!" Ivan sent luff to seal his psynergy. It refused to do it so Ivan used Bind.
"You think your djinn and psynergy is going to work on me? My power is highly more powerful than that."
"No..dammit.. DIE!!!!" Ivan came at him much faster than the wind. He struck his blade into his heart to try and kill him.
"Little brat." His mind painfully struck out. Then he started to laugh, a real creepy laugh.
"I love playing with new toys." Babi crackled. Then with a strange unknown power he made a clone of Ivan appear. It looked exactly like him, but more evil in a way.
"No..dammit.. DIE!!!!" The clone shouted, going after Ivan the exact same way that he did to Babi just seconds earlier.
"Don't leave me." Sheba looked up to see what was happening. She began crying again, knowing that one blow to the heart is fatal. She watched his own blood seep down from his puncture. She crawled to him, the psychic waves that hit her just about paralyzed her.
"Ivan..." she whispered his name. she hugged his body, the warm feeling was gone. His blood covered her hands and her face.
"My psynergy is keeping my spirit inside, Sheba I don't have much long in here." Remarkably he had some psynergy left to keep him alive for just a few seconds. He could only speak to her through mind read.
"Why are you going to leave like this, don't die on me." She replied back. (I sound so dramatic!)
" I don't want to leave you...I just have enough psynergy to say short goodbye, Sheba I love you." Ivan said his last as his psynergy dried out.
Sheba didn't mean what he meant by a "short goodbye. She knew she would have to face Babi by herself. She stayed and cried into Ivan's body until Babi boomed out.
"Are you done mourning like a crybaby over a waste of life?" Babi laughed again. Ivan was right about him laughing at his own jokes.
"Why..." Sheba's anger became uncontrollable. "Why did you do that you evil demon!" She began cursing at him with red eyes.
"No need for such behavior my child. He laughed again. "No one will save you now."
Sheba didn't listen. She roared after him, using physical and lightning attacks.
"I guess you want to die too eh? I don't need your worthless life anyway." He raised a finger to her, freezing her in place. He moved a razor-sharp dagger toward her cheek. He sliced through her cheek to make and "X" scar appear. She began whimpering in pain.
"I hope you enjoy a internal sleep Sheba. A slow and painful one. That's what you need Sheba. He picked her up out of the air and threw her hard to the ground, making her break a few bones. She couldn't speak. It was much too painful to perform the simple task. He continued to slam her, making her break her arms and legs so she couldn't move. With a swipe of the dagger, Babi bleeding cuts all over her body. She screamed in her mind, hoping it would help the pain. She couldn't use her djinn to help her. They were still in recovery. She felt her own blood leaking out of her and drenching her clothes. All the sudden, her world went black.
A/N: MUAHAHAHAHA! I feel so evil now.
A/N: Hey where did all my nice audience of reviewers go!? *cries*
The tower looked like it was about to fall into the sea. Its bottom base was supported by rock and earth. It stood almost a few yards from the sea below. Maybe the rock kept the lighthouse in place. You could see the yellow flame that now lighted the night sky like a midnight sun. The ground was still unstable, shaking the area with small growling earthquakes. The small forest of fruit bearing trees remained even after the ground being tore up by the last two years' lighting of the lighthouse. From Sheba's view, she could tell she was getting closer and closer to her home. She had missed her people. She was tired of traveling and sleeping on the dirty ground almost every night. But wasn't everyone? Jan didn't sleep on the floor at all. She would climb a tree and fall asleep inside its arms. Ivan and Picard would call her a monkey. She knew that they were always doing that. She didn't care much, not as much as Sheba did. Every now and then Jan would attack them playfully like a cub.
It reminded Ivan about the events that took place here. Picard had no idea of this place. He had only seen it when he was sailing on his Lemurian ship. He had only been in the few areas of Gondowan and Angara. He looked up at it, it looked like it was bigger than the other lighthouses.
"I've seen taller buildings than this one." Jan remarked.
"Taller?" Sheba doubted her. "But the lighthouses are the tallest buildings anywhere in Weyard."
"Not here, but where I originally came from. Don't ask me for details now. You'll find out yourself."
"Not unless I just.." Ivan went to read her mind, only to find it filled with other thoughts.
"You won't find out by reading my mind you cheater." Jan calmly said, but growled at him loudly afterwards.
Ivan snorted, "Lalivero is just around the corner almost." Ivan looked at his map. "We can make it there in about an hour."
"Then what are we waiting for? I must rescue my people!" Sheba urged to go on as fast as possible.
"It's almost sundown. We better get a move on." Picard looked up at the pink orange sky. Clouds in with the last of the suns light, making it looked like a bright pinkish purple. The land was unusually empty. No monsters, animals, or people anywhere. The day now turned into night from the hour passing.
"There's something really strange going on..." Picard sniffed the air.
"It smells a lot like smoke...something is burning!" Jan noticed bright flames blazing nearby. She guided their eyes to it.
"No...it..couldn't possibly be...Sheba's eyes began to water. She got off her Oradon and ran toward the blaze and disappeared into the darkness.
"Sheba!" Ivan ran after her.
"Come on we gotta follow!" Jan pulled the Oradons reins to follow.
"Babi...." Picard cursed under his breath.
Sheba was down on her knees, crying as hard as she ever did in her life. Her home, friends, family...gone. If she had only been there to protect them, they would be still alive. She blamed herself deeply, as now she had no where to go. The Laliverio River flowed and reflected the bright engulfing flames of the fire. She tried to help put it out by summoning the strongest rainstorm she could make. She concentrated for a few moments. The psynergy she was storing was soon released. Tears of sorrow and anger mixed together as the sky became dark and rumbling with thunder. Ivan came behind her, panting from the long run.
"Sheba..I.."
"Exactly like yesterdays vision.." She choked and sobbed. "Help me take out the fire."
He nodded and contributed his power into the developing storm. As soon as he finished, rain began pouring down in buckets as it drenched the fire. Now the only light lighting up the sky was the constant flashing streaks of lightning. It became harder for Jan and Picard to find them. "Where did they go? The fire was showing us the way there..until it gone out." Jan tried igniting a torch, but it went out. "Are we lost?"
"Sheba must have summoned this storm. It came out if nowhere." Picard said, looking worried. "Maybe Ivan helped her out, let's try going this way."
"But didn't we just go that way?"
"I don't know. It's too dark and too rainy to light a torch, or see where we are going. We can't give up the search!"
"Why did it have to end this way?" She couldn't fight back the depressing emotions that pressured her down. She fell into Ivan's shoulder and snuggled into his sleeve.
"Sheba..I'm truly sorry..." He embraced her. "Babi will truly pay for this traumatic ordeal."
"Don't mention his name," she growled. Her eyes were infuriated with anger. The angelic emerald eyes were no longer soft. They now looked like a hurricane was rampaging inside. Her eyes seemed to glow with red rather than green.
"We'll find him. He must be inside his lighthouse."
"Correct." Sheba's aura suddenly appeared, glowing in the colors of amethyst, pearl, and a cloudy grey. The environment began changing to match her current emotional status. There was less rain now, but the lightning became more severe. It looked like she could control every bolt that was flashing.
"Where are Jan and Picard? I hope they didn't get lost." Ivan was soaked to the bone from the cold rain. He shivered and hugged Sheba for warmth.
"We will see them when the time comes. I have to settle this alone with Babi himself."
I won't let you go alone! Not without me..."
"This has nothing to do with you! This was my fault that this happened.
"Babi is the one who caused this. Therefore, it isn't any of your fault!"
"Fine, but we have no time to waste." Sheba got up running toward the burned town that was once Lalivero.
"Wait Sheba...you got really emotional back there. You sure you're going to be all right?"
"I'll be fine for now."
"If you feel the need to cry at anytime, do it. I'll be there for you." He cupped her cheek and kissed her.
"I feel like this will be our last...I don't want to die early." Sheba said to him while mind reading.
She fully kissed him, more passionately that she had ever done. She got even closer to him because she was freezing since her clothes were also soaked from the rain.
"We have a demon to take care of, let's not waste any more time. We can always do that later." Ivan separated from her.
She closed her eyes and nodded. The Babi Lighthouse was shrouded in evil darkness. It was finished, but now it was to be destroyed.
"Let's get going. I want to get even now."
To their surprise, no one was even guarding the place. It's interior sure hadn't changed. In just a few minutes, they found the door that would lead them to the one person who Sheba hated the most.
"Good luck, if anything happens, to one or both of us, just remember the good times we had." Ivan pulled out his Kikuichimonji blade, ready to strike.
"We won't die, I will not allow it!" She took out her storm mace. She broke through the wooden door. He was there alright. He look liked he was already dead. His body was chained up and appeared to be floating. His red eyes shot out to look at the two little Jupiter adepts, armed with weapons.
"There's my little girl. Do you like how I "rearranged" your nice little town? He laughed evilly.
"He laughs at his own jokes." Ivan whispered to Sheba.
"I was expecting you to come..and the thief who took her from me!"
"Shut up you stupid old man!" Sheba was at it again, "You're the one who stole me in the first place!" "And you need to die again!"
"You DARE insult me in my own lair!? His mind screamed. Strong pure telepathic waves struck out at her. She yelled loudly dropping to the floor.
"You leave her alone!" Ivan sent luff to seal his psynergy. It refused to do it so Ivan used Bind.
"You think your djinn and psynergy is going to work on me? My power is highly more powerful than that."
"No..dammit.. DIE!!!!" Ivan came at him much faster than the wind. He struck his blade into his heart to try and kill him.
"Little brat." His mind painfully struck out. Then he started to laugh, a real creepy laugh.
"I love playing with new toys." Babi crackled. Then with a strange unknown power he made a clone of Ivan appear. It looked exactly like him, but more evil in a way.
"No..dammit.. DIE!!!!" The clone shouted, going after Ivan the exact same way that he did to Babi just seconds earlier.
"Don't leave me." Sheba looked up to see what was happening. She began crying again, knowing that one blow to the heart is fatal. She watched his own blood seep down from his puncture. She crawled to him, the psychic waves that hit her just about paralyzed her.
"Ivan..." she whispered his name. she hugged his body, the warm feeling was gone. His blood covered her hands and her face.
"My psynergy is keeping my spirit inside, Sheba I don't have much long in here." Remarkably he had some psynergy left to keep him alive for just a few seconds. He could only speak to her through mind read.
"Why are you going to leave like this, don't die on me." She replied back. (I sound so dramatic!)
" I don't want to leave you...I just have enough psynergy to say short goodbye, Sheba I love you." Ivan said his last as his psynergy dried out.
Sheba didn't mean what he meant by a "short goodbye. She knew she would have to face Babi by herself. She stayed and cried into Ivan's body until Babi boomed out.
"Are you done mourning like a crybaby over a waste of life?" Babi laughed again. Ivan was right about him laughing at his own jokes.
"Why..." Sheba's anger became uncontrollable. "Why did you do that you evil demon!" She began cursing at him with red eyes.
"No need for such behavior my child. He laughed again. "No one will save you now."
Sheba didn't listen. She roared after him, using physical and lightning attacks.
"I guess you want to die too eh? I don't need your worthless life anyway." He raised a finger to her, freezing her in place. He moved a razor-sharp dagger toward her cheek. He sliced through her cheek to make and "X" scar appear. She began whimpering in pain.
"I hope you enjoy a internal sleep Sheba. A slow and painful one. That's what you need Sheba. He picked her up out of the air and threw her hard to the ground, making her break a few bones. She couldn't speak. It was much too painful to perform the simple task. He continued to slam her, making her break her arms and legs so she couldn't move. With a swipe of the dagger, Babi bleeding cuts all over her body. She screamed in her mind, hoping it would help the pain. She couldn't use her djinn to help her. They were still in recovery. She felt her own blood leaking out of her and drenching her clothes. All the sudden, her world went black.
A/N: MUAHAHAHAHA! I feel so evil now.