"My...My great-great grandfather?" Virginia stammered. The tall man with broad shoulders came closer into the light. "You joke."
"No, I am your great...I hate saying great so many times although it be true. I'm related to you, and that's it." Vermont clarified. "I have a feeling you want to know more, so, I will continue. Basically, I've been waiting here for you for a long time, Virginia. You are a means to an end for me. The end of my lifelong ambition." He simply said with a grin. "That journal that was written by your mother. I wrote that. Not her. I wrote it and waited for you to find it. I gave up one slight chance on you. I gave a gamble that you would find it and, you did. I gave up the one brief moment I had to go to Filgaia to give you that book so that you would come here and give me the chance to go back to Filgaia for longer than the minute I was granted the last time."
"I don't see how or why I would help you." Virginia said with acid. "You took over Emma's mind, didn't you?"
He smugly smirked. "I did. She was unwilling to fight for real, and so I took over her mind. It's a pity I cannot do the same to those who share the same blood as mine. And, Emma can not control anyone with demon blood, so she could not control you either."
"So you controlled Jet! You...I don't even know a word that would describe how I feel towards you for that. You disgust me greatly." Virginia's hands hovered over each ARM in her holsters.
"Your great-grandfather—my son—had the demon ability to not only teleport, but open paths to other realities. With that ability he escaped to Filgaia and was supposed to free us from this prison. I wanted control of Filgaia!" He formed a fist. "He betrayed me. He fell in love with Filgaia, and with a woman." He regrettably informed Virginia. "Now, he left you as the only one who can open the path for me. Though your demon blood is tainted and unusable it should still be able to call out to Shadow of the Sun and open a portal between this place and Filgaia."
"I'm not going to do that! You knew that already!"
"I have something that you would want."
"What is that?" Virginia wondered cautiously.
"This, 'Jet', can be brought back to you. You do this for me and I will bring him back to you." Vermont persuaded. "If you decline, I will banish his soul and memory so far away that you will forget all about him as well. But, you will always have a hollow, and broken heart and never understand why. You will miss him, and mourn him, and you will never know it. And he, will fade into nonexistence. It would be as if he never lived once."
Emma sat up barely as she clutched at the hole in her chest. "V-Vi-Virginia...You...Don't listen to him!...You...Need to do...What should honestly be done!"
Virginia nodded and all doubt left her. "I could help you, and save Jet, Vermont. That, that would put many others where Jet is now and will be though! I can't rightfully do that even for Jet." She declared. "Filgaia is more important than Jet." Emma sadly nodded.
Standing wobbly Emma sent a glare for Vermont. Virginia came to the demon's side and helped her stand. "We...will kill Vermont." Emma stated with all her strength. "It's the most...I can do."
Virginia nodded as Vermont's scowl grew. "So that's how you will have it then?" He questioned. "So be it! I will kill you both then!" With that he sent his arm outward—stretching seemingly—and Virginia barely dodged it along with Emma. As it retracted the two woman stood.
Drawing her ARMs Virginia fires out at her ancestor only to find that her ARMS are totally useless. Forming a scowl Virginia tossed her tinder crest blinding the man temporarily. Emma gained enough strength to send a dagger made of light at Vermont. The said weapon imbedding itself in Vermont's upper torso. Before the two could go any further Vermont let loose beams of energy from his eyes and each were hit back and their clothes burned.
Virginia bounced back up, but Emma did not. Emma went wide eyed and stared at Virginia. Before anything else could be said Emma had teleported. Leaving Virginia with her enemy.
Vermont let out a cackle. "Ha! So, you too have been betrayed. How sad? You will have to accept your death now before her."
"Can you kill me knowing that I'm your ticket out of here?" Virginia defiantly wondered.
"I don't care whether I let you live or not. You could put me in Filgaia, or you could decline as you have. If I can't get you to open the portal I have no use for you and I'll remain here. So, if it's the same outcome I might as well have some fun and kill you."
"I'm not going to let you though!" The battle picked right back up where it left off. Virginia charged forward between three separate attacks made by Vermont and punched the demon in the face. He laughed and returned the favor sending Virginia rolling across the floor with a broken nose. Spitting the blood aside Virginia stood and threw her shoe at Vermont's face. He caught it and looked at it.
"You seriously threw a show at me?" He questioned. She shrugged and ran forward only to be sent across the dark of Shadow of the Sun. Landing on what would think the door Virginia heard something crack a bit and knew she hurt something bad. Still, she could fight with two broken ribs, right? Staggering to her feet and wiping some blood from her face she stood tall. Jet was dead. Emma was no help, and even if she was here still she was too weak to fight. It was up to her now. She was going to win now matter what. She did not have anything to attack with though. She did not have the ability to win as she was now.
That was what brought three punches to her body and a knee to her chest. She attempted blocks and her own counter-attacks, and failed in each of them. She simply fell back to the dark floor on which she should still be standing on. Tears and blood marked the floor as she stood. Vermont moved in and kicked at her left leg. She heard another snap and fell to the floor. She gritted her teeth and stood upwards despite all her set-backs. She formed a stupid grin on her face that would tell Vermont that no matter what she was still going to get up until one of them were dead. She stumbled forward as Vermont moved in for the kill. His fingernails turned to retractable claws and were at the ready to rip at her neck. She had no defense.
An ARM rang out in the vast darkness that was Shadow of the Sun. Vermont stepped back grasping at his left arm. At least, he would be if he still had a left arm. It had been totally destroyed by that attack. Virginia fell to the floor relieved that her leg no longer hurt as it had. Her ARMs had not affected Emma or Vermont. That she realized soon enough. She did not have her ARMs in her hands as she thought. She thought she had fired at him. She sat there a moment in quiet introspection. Slowly, her head turned around.
"Are you going to sit there all day and leave it to me to clean up your messes?" Jet questioned. "Pheh. You always are such a pain in the ass." He said with a shrug. "Whatever. I still liked following you around for five years."
"J-Jet?" She mumbled. "How?"
He glares at her as he jumped forward and in front of her. Waving his Aigert-Lahm B/V2. Aiming it for Vermont's head. "Do you honestly think we have the time to talk about that crap now?" He simply questioned.
"I don't...now how you did that...but you will not get away with it, boy!" Vermont stood back up as if nothing happened. He waved his remaining hand for Jet who dropped his ARM. Jet letting out a hesitant gasp. "Now, kill her." Jet slowly turned to Virginia. As soon as she heard Vermont's command Jet's hand was at her throat. She looked into his vacant eyes. Her breath slowing and becoming harder. As Vermont let out a satisfied laugh another gunshot rang out hitting his leg and causing him to drop to his knee. "What?"
"Did you honestly think I would kill her?" Jet questioned from behind a smoking ARM. "I could never kill Virginia no matter what! Even if someone told me too!"
"H-How...could you not be affected by my power?"
"You said it yourself!" Virginia stood up beside Jet. "You can't control me, and since Jet and I are in sync with one another now you can't control him either. Our hearts are one and you can't control both of us!"
"The guardians have something they want us to tell you, Vermont." Jet continued. He looked to Virginia dropping his ARM. "Summon!" With that Virginia followed it with her own call for a summon and all twelve of their mediums brought forth the beings whom cared for Filgaia the most aside from those who live there. From Moor Gault to Zephyr. Every guardian concentrating their attack on the demon.
Virginia looked away and placed her face into Jet's chest to not see the end of Vermont. Jet watched it as still as possible. It was not a pretty sight. He simply draped his arm around Virginia as Shadow of the Sun fell apart into fragments of light instead of the dark from before.
DOES ANYONE UNDERSTAND WHY MY STORY IS NO LONGER SHOWN ON THE MAIN CATEGORY PAGE? I JUST FIND THAT MESSED UP. I HOPE IT SHOWS BACK UP.