ANOES 8: The Beginning of the End

The glowing of his cuts intensified until it was bliding, an unearthly roar erupted from Zach right before he flung his limbs out and exploded in the biggest explosion in the history of the universe.

"NOOOOOOOOOO!" Tigraria screamed as the massive explosion enveloped her.

Freddy brought up an energy shield to protect himself but Zach's power was too great. Freddy and his clones were swalloed by Zach's power.

When the dust had settled, only Tigraria and Freddy were left alive and they were accompanied by a strange ball of white light that was floating in mid-air.

"What the hell?" Tigraria said slowly as she got up, "Ugh, damn!"

She fell back to the ground and grabbed her arm. Zach's explosion messed with her more than she thought, the was a huge gash on her leg that had severed some muscles and it felt like her arm was broken. Freddy was slightly better off because of his almost useless shield, he had only sustained minor cuts.

"Yes," he said slowly, "It worked!"

"What worked?" Tigraria asked.

"My plan. I knew that if I got him mad enough," Freddy turned to her, "His power would overwhelm him and now," Freddy began to walk toward her, "You are the only thing between me and my goal."

Freddy raised his claw and repared to strike but Tigraria stared over his shoulder. Freddy saw this and turned to see what had attracted Tigraria's attention. What he saw horrified him. The glowing ball had taken the form of a person and that form uncurled itself and floated to the ground.

"No," Freddy said slowly, "no that's not fair."

The form touched down lightly on the ground and the glow began to fade. It was Zach, but his outfit was different. It looked like Tigraria's but it was black and the shirt had flames on it.

"How.........why!?!?"

"I don't really know how Freddy," Zach said slowly, his voice slightly higher and more elegant, "But I do know why."

"Why?"

"Because I have to kill you Freddy, and make no mistake, I will."

"You really think you can?"

"Yes."

"Why?"

"Because before I underwent this.........transformation, I had to concetrate to use my powers. Now, I can do almost anything just by thinking about it. If I were to actually use force of will, the result would be a hundred times more powerful."

"Why don't you prove tha........." Freddy was cut off buy a ridicolosly powerful coughing fit. He kept coughing and coughing. In fact he was coughing so hard it hurt. Suddenly, a string came out of Freddy's mouth and without hesitation he began to pull it out. After coughing some more and pulling on the string, he finally pulled out the last of the string to find it attached to his old glove!

Freddy stared at Zach, who grinned and then, without warning, Freddy was launched into the air as though he was punched. Zach kept mentally punching Freddy around before finally throwing him down to the ground.

"Do you believe me yet?" Zach asked, "Or do I need to keep proving this to you?"

Freddy got up and glared at Zach and Tigraria looked on in wonder. Zach was beating Freddy simply by thinking about it!

Zach looked like he was thinking for a bit before holding out his hand. Both Freddy and Tigraria looked on in confuision. Suddenly, Zach's katana flew into his hand.

"You know something Freddy?" Zach asked nonchalantly, "Despite all my power, I STILL can't kill you! However, this sword can, and," Zach continued, "I can take that power for my own."

Immediately, the sword glowed red and then, that glow was sucked from the sword and into Zach.

"Now I can kill you." zach said calmly as he dropped the sword; it's crystal going to blue-green to cold gray.

"Oh really!" Freddy said angrily, "Well why don't you prove that you little shit!" as he launched himself into the air at Zach.

Zach gave a small, quiet laugh before jumping up to meet Freddy. Freddy slashed at Zach who backflipped and kicked Freddy down to the ground with astounding force. Freddy hit the ground hard. So hard in fact that he created a respectibly large crater. Zach floated down into the crater as Freddy was struggling to get up.

'Good God man,' Zach thought, "This guy is an idiot." he said out loud.

"Idiot am I?" Freddy said slowly, his voice noticably deeper, "We'll see who the idiot is."

Freddy looked at Zach and Zach jumped slighly. Freddy face had changed. He now had about fifty tiny burns, his ears had become pointed, his chin pointed out sligtly and his eyes looked like a cat's eyes; yellow with eliptical pupils. Freddy tried to slash Zach's face but Zach grabbed his wrist.

"You have no idea how powerful I am now do you?" Zach asked

Freddy tried to rip his hand out of Zach's grip but his grip was to strong.

"You bastard," Freddy said, "Let me go!"

Zach noticed something, Freddy's teeth had become long, sleneder, and pointed.

"No," Zach answered.

Freddy was about to say something before Zach punched him in the chest, burying him in the wall of rock that was behind him.

Zach merely stood and waited. He knew Freddy wasn't dead, he could still feel his power. Suddenly, Freddy's power shot up and the rock he was buried under exploded and Freddy shot up out of the smoke.

"THIS IS MY WORLD!" he shouted in rage as he shot towards Zach, "THIS IS MY WORLD AND NO ONE WILL TAKE IT FROM ME!!!!!!!!!"

Freddy raised his claw and slashed at Zach, but Zach grabbed his wrist and a red-orange glow erupted around him and without warning, Zach plunged his hand into Freddy's chest and wrapped his fingers around Freddy's heart.

"Do you still want me to prove that I can kill you? Fine."

A look of terror appeared on Freddy's demonic face, he knew what Zach was about to do.

"I imagin now, you're wishing you hadn't killed Tracy. Aren't you?

Zach tightened his girp on Freddy's heart and Freddy screamed in agony.

"You are about to die Freddy Krueger but before I kill you," Zach tightened his grip again, "I want you to think back. Think back to those childhood years of yours and tell me. Tell me if you ever thought THIS was the way your life would end!"

Zach then began to pour energy into Freddy's heart, raising Freddy's internal temperture. Freddy began to scream in agony again, his screams intensifying with his internal temp. The more energy Zach put in, the hotter he got, so hot that he began to glow red, then orange, and finally white. His screams became louder than anyother sound in exsistance.

"NOW DIE!" Zach shouted.

Freddy gave one final scream before Zach pushed out with his power and Freddy exploded in an explosion with the force of a thousand supernovas. The light from the explosion was blinding and was seen throughout the dream world. In Russia, dreaming kids saw a white light grow in the west. Children in Africa having nightmares saw their monsters dissapear as they were enveloped in this light. All over the dream world, nightmare monsters were vaporized by the purity of the light.

Slowly, the light faded, a wave passed over the dream world, and dreaming children all over the dream world felt completely at ease, almost as if they knew they'd never have another nightmare again.

The effects of the light were even felt by Tigraria who felt all of her injuries heal.

Letting out a sigh, Zach lowered his arms and looked over at Tigraria.

"Excuse me for being vulger," she said, "but what the fuck did you just do?"

"I used my power to more or less, destroy ever evil in this world, Freddy included."

"But now where do we go?" Tigraria asked, "With no evil in this world, we no longer have a purpose.We'd just dissapear. Nothing can exsist without purpose."

"No,that's not entirely true." Zach said, with a grin suddenly taking the place of his formerly somber expression, "I am neutral. Neither good nor evil so technicly, we do still have a purpose."

Tigraria stared at Zach in amazment.

"I do still have one question however."

"Really," Tigraria said, slightly surprised, "What?"

"The first time I beat Freddy a portal was opened between the dream world and the real world. Did you do that?"

Tigraria grinned, "Yes Zach, I did do that."

Zach smiled.

"I thought it was you when I met you. I guess I was right."

There was a long silence when both Tigraria and Zach looked up and saw that the sky was clearing and the buildings had repaired themselves.

"So now what do we do?" Tigraria asked Zach.

Zach chukled, that was the same question Tracy had asked him after receiving her power.

"Whatever the hell we want to."