A/N: I finally found a window in which I could finish my fanifc and I finally have it done. After the long hardship of losing half of it due to crappy file tranfers, I managed to finish this story. Here are the last two chapters to my fanfic, enjoy.

Chapter 22: My Last Stand

The clock in Carmina Gadelica tolled five minutes before the final battle of the tournament and Jon had been sitting at the grunty pen waiting for Kelly to return. His mind still dwelled on Jasmine and how she had betrayed him, which kept his anger burning. He would make Balmung and her suffer if it was the last thing he would do. His small baby grunty that he had moved from the Theta server to Lambda had grown into what he would call a teenage grunty. The grunty came up to him and nudged him a bit, "Dad, what's with you? You seem angry about something."

"It's nothing," Jon snapped, "I don't have any more food for you today, sorry. I have to get going now, so I'll see you later. If Sakura comes looking for me, tell her I'm at the stadium, okay," he stormed off to the stadium and pulled out his sword. He had another five minutes before the match but that didn't matter to him, since he was still furious at Jasmine. He walked straight into the arena where some of the spectators had started to return to watch his match. He stood there not moving an inch and staring at the gate from where Balmung would emerge from. He started to prepare his Rue Divider attack and felt his own hand starting to freeze from the power of the attack and stopped. His concentration was broken by a voice coming from the crowd, "Enigma, everything is set up," he looked and saw that Kelly had returned and given him a thumbs up. He knew something would happen from his body being connected to the game, but didn't know exactly what At least he had some some other friends that he could count on that wouldn't betray him for someone like Balmung.

He stared back at the gate and after a few minutes felt a hand on his shoulder. Without even turning around he spoke, "Jasmine, I have nothing to say to you at all. I'm going to make Balmung suffer and have you watch as I do it. If my life means nothing to you, then his means absolutely nothing to me."

"Jon what are you planning to do," she came to apologize and was taken back by his words.

"I plan to give him a taste of what I've had deal with," he held up his left wrist.

She caught on quickly to what he was thinking, "That's doing too much Jon. You can't do that, I know you wouldn't do that."

"Fighting to stay alive makes a you do things you thought you would never do in this lifetime," he said coldly.

"You don't understand. I talked with Balmung. He only wants to have a fair rematch with you," she stopped herself soon after saying that.

"So you talked with him after our little argument," his voice changed from cold to irritated. Jasmine could feel his shoulder becoming colder and then noticed her hand was becoming frozen in a block of ice.

"What are you doing," she pulled her hand away, "How did you...?"

"Neat trick huh," he turned to face her and she saw his eyes had changed from their normal icy glow to what seemed like a dark void in his eyes, "I have a change of heart as of late about how I should face this problem," his voice had become cold once more, "You once asked me what would I do if I could never return to my original body and back then I couldn't find an answer."

"You have one now?"

"Yeah," he chuckled loudly, "I'll make everyone who gets near me feel my pain and anguish as I draw them into this world along with me. With this bracelet on my left wrist, I will make them all feel what it's like to be left here and fend for yourself."

"What are you saying? Just listen to yourself. You and Kelly were the ones who were most against using the bracelets powers, but now you're going to use it on anyone you just gets near you?"

"He won't listen to you, foolish girl," a strange woman's voice echoed in her head, "He's now my puppet, and will do whatever I tell him to, and I have you to thank for that."

"Wha, who's there," she frantically looked around in the crowd to see who had spoken to her, "Thank me, and what did you do to Enigma?"

"I'm inside you, or should I say your bracelet," she sounded like a heavenly angel's voice that seemed to calm Jasmine down from her frantic searching, realizng the voice was in her head, "I must say that your little situation with Balmung and Enigma has finally pushed him over the edge and into my clutches."

"What are you talking about?"

"The bracelet on yours and his arms is a way that I can look at you. I must say that you two alone have interesting lives inside the world. You with your many lies to Balmung, Enigma, Lios, and your closest friends. He and his constant struggle for survival, and fighting against my advances into his mind. Your other friends are interesting as well, but not as much as you two."

"Who are you, and how are you able to look at us without our knowing?"

"Enigma has told you my name and I bet you can guess how I can do what I can after you figure out the first hint."

"Morganna," she whispered.

"Exactly, and what Enigma told you about me is true. I am the mother of the world and I can look at each of you by my will alone. I'm the one who created Skieth, the bracelets, and that excuse for a daughter, Aura."

"Next question then, how are you controlling Enigma now?"

"When I fought him a few days ago, I fired a data drain at him, but his bracelet absorbed it. At first I saw this as failure, but it has given me a new way to gain victory. Over the past few days, and during this tounament I have been suggesting to him that fighting at his current power is pointless and to just let me give him more power. I must say that he has a lot of will to keep from letting go after the first few attempts, but his anger made him give into me. You've never seen him this mad at anything before have you?"

Jasmine recalled the incident where Jon grabbed his chest when she, Kelly, and David found him, "I can't say that I have being he is normally such a carefree guy."

"And because of you and Balmung he finally gave into me and asked for power that could make both of you suffer like he has. Now nothing will stop him from full filling that wish. Nothing short of death or data drain that is, which you or your friends could never do to him. Regardless of whether I'm in control of him or not, the man you see in front of you is Enigma. It will be enjoyable to watch you, as Enigma kills Balmung, data drains him and make you watch as it all happens," Morganna laughed evily at Jasmine as her voice faded away.

"It's time," Jon said as the gate on the other side of the arena opened, "I'll only say this once, get in my way and I'll kill you and do the same to you as I will Balmung."

She froze as the words came to her. She never in her right mind would ever think this was her friend in front of her. She fell to her knees and a single tear fell down her cheek, "I understand, Enigma."

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As Balmung and Kamui entered the arena, they knew something was off. The blademaster turned to his commrade, "This doesn't feel right. Should we really have to delete one character that has not done anything wrong?"

"You have your orders Balmung, and I will delete him if you can't," Kamui shouted at him, "These AIs are a plague in the system, and it's my job to cleanse them from it. I do admit that there is something strange at work here."

Lios, appeared in the center of the arena and had the teams meet him, "Now per the rules given at the end of the semifinals, I need each of you to remove all you armor and place it here," a small pedestal appeared in front of each team. Without their armor of, it seemed Kamui only had a dark pink tanktop and long dress of the same color, while Balmung had only a blue, skin tight jumpsuit. He still had his wings on his arms and back. DarkAngel had a look of shear terror on her face and Balmung wondered what could frighten her that much. Without her armor, she only had on a black t-shirt and dark blue shorts that went down to half way down her shins. He got a look a Enigma who stared blankly into Balmung. He suddenly got an image in his head of Enigma slicing his head off. He gasped for air as he regained his senses and folded his arms. He looked back at Enigma who still had the same look of determination on his face. He had only a sleeveless navy shirt and black shorts that had once been pants but ripped. After every peice of armor was placed on the pedestals, they disappeared without any trace, "We will hold onto your armor till after the match is over and the proper winnings have been taken out. Return to your entry gate and prepare to fight to the death!!"

As he walked back Balmung turned to Kamui, "I will take on Enigma, myself. He and I have unfinished buisness, so just keep DarkAngel off my back."

"Whatever you ask Lord Balmung. Just be sure that you kill and delete him this time. I shall make sure that twin blade will not be a problem for you."

"Fine just," he stopped as he started to say don't hurt DarkAngel, but knew that would cause suspicion.

"M'Lord?"

"Nothing. Let us just get this over with. Unilike you, I'm not being paid for this."

"As you wish," Kamui looked a little confused by his statement.

"The final match of the Lambda tournament will begin," Lios gave a slight pause, "NOW!!!"

"Just stay out of my way unless you want to die like Balmung will," Enigma said before dashing straight towards Balmung with sword grasped in both hands. His sword became incased in a thich layer of ice and snow swirled around the ice casing. He stopped short, braced and swung his sword in a giant swing, "BLIZZARD STORM," the snow and ice flew off his sword and created a large whilrwind of ice and headed straight for Balmung. The blizzard attack engulfed his body and then headed straight into the air. The crowd gasped as they saw that Balmung was nowhere to be seen as the blizzard passed over him leaving no trace of the powerful blademaster. The attack formed into a ball and exploded forming a layer of snow over the battefield. Enigma frowned and grolwed as he looked to the sky and saw nothing around.

"Interesting attack, Enigma," Balmung appeared behind him, and decended from the air, "Unfortunately for you, my wings make that attack useless. I'm glad that you're not going to hold back on me this time though, RUE CRACK," Balmung's sword filled with frozen energy and slashed downward into Enigma's left shoulder. The blade stopped shortly after cutting into his shoulder and froze his entire shoulder. Enigma only chuckled which took Balmung back, and then noticed that his sword was becoming incased in ice as well as Enigma's shoulder, and the ice had actually formed into a make-shift shoulder plate. Balmung drew back his ice-covered sword and slammed it into the ground to break off the ice, "What kind of trick is this?"

"Something I saved just for this match against you. I forsee your death and there is nothing you can do to prevent it," Enigma yelled and slashed horizontally, and Balmung held up his sword to block the attack. The force of Enigma's blow made Balmung to lose grip of his sword and was still able wound Balmung's torso.

Balmung quickly reclaimed his sword and backed away from his aggressor, "When did you become that damn strong?"

"That's for you to find out, and my Blizzard Storm wasn't used just to hurt you," Enigma slashed again which caused Balmung to stagger from the blow. He continuously attacked with giant swings of his sword that kept Balmung off balance and unable to mount anykind of counter attack. Balmung had tried to use his wings to fly away, but Enigma grabbed one of his legs and threw him into the ground and stomped on him, "And now to take care of those," he grabbed one of Balmung's wings with his right hand and held it in a vice grip, that Balmung couldn't break free from. After a few seconds of struggling, Balmung noticed that he was unable to move his wing anymore and noticed that it has frozen into a block ice, "Now let's see if you fly away from me," Enigma chuckled as he let go. Balmung quickly changed weapons and used a Vak Revolver to get Enigma off away from him and to try and melt away the ice on his wing, "That won't do you any good," Enigma laughed as he watched Balmung feeble attempts, "Tell me that Balmung of the Azure Sky isn't this weak. Last time you and I ended our battle in a tie thanks to DarkAngel, but this time that bitch won't be able to stop me!!"

Balmung charged at Enigma at those words and used a GiVak Crack but was blocked by Enigma's shoulder plate of ice, "I will fight you with everything I have, but call Angel that again, and I WILL make sure you never speak another word," he slashed downward from where he hit the shoulder plate and cut his arm.

"Is that all it takes to get your blood boiling? Then I wonder how you'll feel after I kill that little bitch," Enigma turned his head away and stared at DarkAngel, who was dodging Kamui's attacks while giving slight attacks in between each maneuver. He held out his left arm as some of the snow swirled up to his palm, "GIRUE ZOT," the snow dispersed and ice pillars shot out of the ground into both DarkAngel and Kamui, "Good. Maybe I kill Kamui at the same time as I kill DarkAngel," Enigma laughed in Balmung's face.

"Balmung, you fool," Kamui yelled at her partner, "Don't use attacks like that in such close quarters or you'll get me as well," she lost concentration on DarkAngel and when see turned back to fight her, the twin blade was nowhere to be seen.

"TWIN DARKNESS," DarkAngel yelled as she began spinning with both her blades covered in black energy from above. She flipped over and dealt 12 continuous slashes and missing the last two as Kamui rolled away. Before she could heal, DarkAngel ran into her face and both her blades became covered with light energy, "THUNDER DANCE!!" DarkAngel slashed from right to left and dealing tremendous damage to Kamui. She jumped around gave one final thrust into Kamui's chest and the Heavy Ax fell to the floor lifeless. DarkAngel then fell to her knees and breathed a sigh of relief.

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"Good. Angel is safe, at least for now," Balmung thought to himself as he pushed Enigma back and quickly restored lost HP with a healing elixir. He still hadn't been able to make a great counter-attack against the raging Enigma who had only assaulted him and took advantage of his classes better attack. Without any of his armor, he couldn't use any kind of magic attacks on Enigma and he didn't have any scroll items that could help him. His wing was still frozen so flying and using quick attacks from the air was useless. He lunged forward and thrusted with his sword to try and find an opening but left himself open to a knee to his stomach. He collapsed after the wind had been taken out of him and seemed paralyzed until Enigma swung his sword back at him. Balmung saw his chance and unleashed another GiVak Crack and connected into Enigma's stomach. The flames on Balmung's sword then flowed from the sword and all over Enigma's body. Enigma back away for a secind then regained his balance and the flames on his body vanished, "How could he have gotten this powerful in this short amount of time," Balmung thought to himself, "In his fight with Blackrose, he was barely able to stay alive, but now. He seems like he's just playing around with me," rolled away from Enigma's next attack but was caught as Enigma slammed the flat part into his side and was thrown into arena wall.

"I suppose I should end your suffering soon," Enigma chuckled, "but first," he held out his sword in front of him as the snow covering the field began swirling toward the top of the sword, "To think this boy had this much power but didn't think to use it. He would have let it gone to waste but I won't, FROZEN TUNDRA," the snow swirling around the top of the sword flowed into it then Enigma charged at Balmung with the speed of a twin blade. He slashed continuoulsy at Balmung, leaving no chance for the blademaster to counter attack or even defend. Each slash delt massive damage that forced Balmung to heal with items. Enigma's last attack of the combo was a jumping downward slash that caused a ice spire to shoot out of the ground, and froze Balmuing in the center of it. Enigma rose after the last blow and his knees buckled and gave out, "Now I see why this guy never used the attack. It wears him out and can't move real well after doing it. I can at least do one other thing though."

"What the hell is he talking about. It looks like he's talking to him," Balmung could only watch from his frozen prison as he saw Enigma sheath his sword and raise his left hand. He passed his right hand over the wrist and saw a bracelet of light form around his wrist. The bracelet then streched into points at certains places and began to pulsate.

"Now, DIE. DATA DRAIN," Enigma shouted as the bracelet fired a stream of data toward Balmung. All time seemed to slow down as Balmung could only watch as the data got closer and saw flashes of memories enter his mind. He saw the first time he ever saw Enigma and DarkAngel and when he defeated the one sin event with Orca. He snapped back into the present time as he saw a dark figure ran in front of the data drain. He noticed that the figure was DarkAngel and she had a bracelet on her own wrist.

"I'm sorry I didn't tell you sooner but I was afraid of what would happen. Please forgive for that and this," DarkAngel said as she threw her white blade into the ice and a lightning bolt struck the top of the ice spire, destroying it and killing Balmung at the same time, "Now to deal with this, DATA DRAIN," her bracelet fired its own data stream.

"NO," Enigma shouted as the attacks collided and a bright light covered everyone in the arena and time stood still for everyone except Enigma, DarkAngel, Sakura, who was in the stands, and ChaosB1ade who was next to her. They all looked around to see that all the scenery was white while the other players were black, "Now that this has happened I can't keep control of him," Enigma said as he fell to the floor.

"Kelly, go check on Jon and see if he's okay," Jasmine ordered as she started resting. An axewoman appeared in the center of the arena passed out.

"Is that Lan," David jumped from the seats to the arena and went to inspect the mysterious player, "It's not her, but it looks a lot like her."

"Jon, get up," Kelly shouted at the heavy blade trying to wake him up, "Lan called me from the hospital saying that your in trouble, and we need to get you out of here."

Jon groaned as he slowly got to his knees, "What do you mean? Why is Lan in the hospital?"

"You asked me to hook your body into the world and I asked Lan to keep an eye on your body and during your fight with Balmung, she said that somehow your body started recieving internal injuries similar to the injuries you were getting here. Here, drink this," she gave him a healing elixir and he was able to stand up on his own. She stood starig blankly into space for a second, "That was Lan again, she said that your body somehow made a miraculous recovery and you've returned to normal."

"I knew something would happen, but I didn't think that would happen," he still hadn't regained all his strength but enough to walk on his own. He looked around and then David kneeling next to the axewoman, "David, get away from her now!!"

"Why, what's wrong," the wavemaster turned to him and didn't notice that the axewoman had grabbed her axe and got to her feet. As he turned back to her, she swung her ax into his chest and lifted him into the air. She swung him around on the ax then slammed him down into the ground, killing him quickly.

"Sakura, heal him quickly," Jon stared at the axewoman who stared back with a grin on her face, "So we meet again, Morganna."

Chapter 22 End