Chapter 23: The End to the Nightmare
Staring back at Enigma's eyes Morganna grinned slightly, then swung her axe around to her back, "Why do look so angry Enigma? I only let fulfill the desire you wanted. You wanted to make DarkAngel suffer for betraying you to Balmung and I let you have that chance."
"With the cost of my mind and free will," Jon snapped, "I was pissed off and that's it. I never wanted you to take control of me and kill the bastard!!"
"But you have to admit that you loved the power that I gave you."
"The power was great, but what I care most about is getting back home, and that means killing you," Jon then charged at Morganna with sword cleched tightly in hand, "Kelly, go help David out before she decides to use data drain, Jasmine.... help me out with Morganna," the twin blade followed her orders and charged Morganna from her back.
"It seems you've forgotten the outcome of our last battle because this will end the same way even if you have help, ANI TORNADO," Morganna waited till Jon and Jasmine were in striking range before unleashing her powerful darkness attack that blew both of them back, "I will make you realize you're dead and that there is nothing you can do that will bring you back," she then charged at the weakened heavy blade but was stopped by a wall of fire. Morganna turned to see that Kelly had her staff pointed at her and David was rising and summoning his own attack. The wavemaster summoned Wryneck, the darkness summon, to blast Morganna with shadow energy that pinned her to one of the arena walls. She curled up her body and then shot all her limbs as far as she could which gave a shockwave that knocked everyone to their feet. She then charged after the wavemaster but was stopped as Enigma rushed in front of her and used his sword like a baseball bat and bashed the flat egde into her face. She fell flat on her back and noticed that DarkAngel and the two wavemasters were preparing large spells. Morganna got to her feet but couldn't run away as Enigma grabbed her from behind and held her so that she couldn't move. She was injured so badly that she couldn't overpower Enigma like she had done before.
"If you're so powerful then you should be able to handle these attacks easily. I might not be able to, but I'll die knowing that you'll go along with me," Enigma chuckled as the other three finished casting their spells. Kelly used Vulcan Pha, which breathed flames over the two players, while Jasmine shocked them GiRai Don. David unfortunately used up most of his SP with Wryneck so he used a simple Juk Rom spell. Enigma released Morganna as the two had cuts and burns all over their bodies. Enigma was the first to rise saw that Morganna was on her knees gasping for breath. He stood silent for a moment then held his sword to his right wrist and sliced it, making a small wound from which his blood began to flow freely, "You used this attack on Balmung and now it's time you witnessed it's power first-hand," the blood from his wound began to swirl around the sword as the snow had from the first time it had been used, "It's time you die, FROZEN TUNDRA," Enigma charged at Morganna and slashed numerous times with all the strength he had then leaped into the air and the Tidal Sword grew in size for a second as he gave his final blow to Morganna. The last strike formed a large crater and Morganna laid in the middle of it, slightly twitching which was the only sign of life she gave.
"I thought your attack freezes it opponent in place like it did with Balmung," Jasmine said as she ran to keep Jon from falling over completely.
"That's what the snow was for," he laughed, "Jasmine you and David grab a hold of Morganna and make sure she doesn't move. Don't worry, after my last combo, she's too weak to resist anymore. Kelly, act as a brace for me cause I know I won't be able to hold my arm steady for what I need to do," he stood shakily as David and Jasmine retrieved Morganna and brought her and Jon face to face. She was still unconscious from the last attack, and Jon raised his left arm but found he didn't have the strength to hold it up. Kelly got behind him and helped raised his arm to point directly toward Morganna, "This has to work, DATA DRAIN," his bracelet flickered into life and shot a beam of data. The force of the data threw him backward but Kelly was behind him holding him upright while Jasmine and David waited till the last second before getting away from Morganna from the fear that they would be affected by the data drain if they didn't. The data beam pierced through Morganna's body and started ripping it apart piece by piece.
"You may have destroyed this charcter data, Enigma, but there is no way you can kill me," Morganna yelled as her face dissintagrated away into nothing. The only thing that was left of her was a small pulsating orb. Jasmine picked up the orb and her head instantly filled with images that she had no understanding of until she saw herself in one of them. She dropped the orb and as it hit the ground, the light glew dimmer and pulsated faster.
"Don't you dare break that thing," Jon shouted at her as he slowly crawled his way over to it. His strength gave out before he could reach it, "Kelly hand me it. I know that orb has something to do with me," Kelly grabbed the orb and she seemed as motinless as Jasmine had when she picked it up. She shook her head and and blushed a little as she handed the small orb over to her friend. As Jon held it in his hand the orb glew brightly and was suddenly able to stand without any problem and the orb levitated out of his hand and began to be absorbed into his body. He shouted for a few seconds, but then sighed and then chuckled a bit as he looked around and saw that everyone in the arena had been cheering and seemed that time had reverted back to normal. He turned to see a stunned look on Lios' face and Jon gave an evil grin to the administrator.
"The winners of the Lambda re-openning tournament are," Lios paused and swallowed for a second, "Team Konoha," the entire crowd cheered loudly as Jasmine threw her arms around Jon as they both fell to the floor and to his surprise, Jon hadn't felt the pain of falling to the ground. They laughed together as they celebrated their victory over both Balmung and Morganna. A few minutes later the first, second, and third placed teams were assembled. Piros had gotten third along with David and Lina due to the fact his match was rigged by Mia, and it was Lios' way of compensation.
"See," the axeman said to Jon and Jasmine, "fortune did come to us all in the end," the axeman laughed joyfully.
"God, I wish I could kill him and be done listening to that idiot," Jon groaned.
Lios handed the third placed teams a chest that had some rare weapons and armor inside of it. He handed Balmung and Kamui a Golden Grunty, and then approached Jon's team, "However much I don't like it that you won, you deserve your prize. The weapon creator and expansion set will be sent to each of you via email attachments. Enigma, I'm not through with you yet, but by god I won't try to do it today after what you just did."
The five friends rejoiced as they left the stadium and cheered, "Well I guess it's time I tried to log out now," he attempted to but found that the golden rings would stop midway the freeze there, "Hey, what the hell?"
"No way we went through all that, and we still didn't cure your condition," Lan sobbed slightly.
"Just kidding," laughed as he resumed the log out sequence, as his body faded away. He awoke and found that he was staring into a dark void, but out of the corner of his eyes he could see white light. He tried to move his arms, but felt that they were either restrained or he just couldn't lift them, "Sa..ra, help me," he heard someone sound surprised, "He.. m..e g...t t..is ...ing.. o.f."
"Wait a minute. Is he really awake under that headset," a mysterious voice said then sounded excited as it called for someone to come to see him. The voice got farther away as it got more excited. It returned with other familiar voices that he knew as some of his friends.
"Sakura? Is that you and everyone else," Jon said without being able to see who was there.
"No, it's not Sakura," it was obviously her voice but as the headset was removed from his eyes he could see clearly who it was, "It's me, Kelly."
"What the hell," he looked around to see he was in a hospital room with Kelly, Lan, and his mother in the room. He raised his head to see some doctors rushing in but being stopped by David telling them he needed some time with his family. He collapsed back into the pillow, "Why do I feel so numb?"
"You've had a lot of drugs go through your body through this," Lan lifted his arm and he saw an IV in his wrist, "Docs said you would feel like crap when you would wake up. Guess they were right," she giggled.
"I don't care about that now. All I care about is that I'm back home," Jon said relieved, "My nightmare is finally over."
Unforeseen Danger End
A/N: It's finally over, and I can finally get a full night's sleep again. At least until I feel I need to get started on my next fanfic. Check my bio which has my fanfic status and what some of my next projects will be. Hope you readers liked it cause it was good for me to write it, LATES.
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