Mindcry locked herself in her room. After Kathryn had come and announced Jonas to be dead, the poor girl wanted to be alone. For the past hour, Mindcry had stared down at her purple shirt, which was wet from tears. She could never forget the time she had spent with Jonas… But it was going to be hard to get over his death. All those memories… Were interrupted by a knock at the door. Mindcry dried her eyes, and answered. It was Kathryn, who was wearing a white warrior skirt and a blue top. On her back, she had a quiver filled with arrows, and a long bow. She had her long blonde hair tied into a ponytail. She looked back at Vapid and Xavier, who were in their purple and black armors, respectively. "Mindcry… I put Jonas in suspended animation at my lab." Mindcry looked quizzically at the doctor.
"Why? If you're planning on using him as a test subject, I will fight." Mindcry wasn't too fond of the idea of her love being a lab rat, obviously. Kathryn shook her head. "Well… There's a way that he could be revived." Mindcry cracked a smile.
Chapter 16: Divine Closure
(BoA – Milky Way)
"Yes! Excellent! And you want to go and get it?" Mindcry asked happily. The three nodded. Mindcry smiled. "I'll be out soon! I've got to get ready. And then, we can go to save our friend!" Mindcry shut the door, and stripped down, stepping into the shower. As the shower's water hit her bare skin, she remembered the time that she and Jonas got caught in the rain after going for a swim in the hot spring. She smiled.
We can relive those memories soon, Jonas. Mindcry thought, smiling. She stepped out of the shower, and put her extra set of clothes on: A purple tank-top, black jeans, and black Goth boots. She tied her black hair into a bun, and opened the door.
"Let's get going."
The group walked down the trail. They were headed to the abandoned Qlon Temple in Lorimar. It would be about a half day hike to there, and the group was in no hurry to get there. Jonas was still safe… Or so they thought…
(Final Fantasy X-2 – YuRiPa Fight No. 1)
Back at Kathryn's place…
"Hehehehee!!" A vicious little imp led an army of his look-alikes into Antei. The imps were very ugly. They had noses that looked like beaks, small and beady eyes, and toothless mouths. They wore purple Elvin caps, purple tunics, and carried daggers. The imps had one goal: Kathryn VanZelta's house. As they marched through the town, they set fire to all the houses on the trail. Within minutes, the town of Antei was a blazing inferno of Hell. That is, until…
"Waterga!" A torrential rain doused the fires. The imps turned around. One looked up, and pointed at a floating woman. She wore shimmering green robes, and had yellow hair. She shook her head, and took out a dagger. She casted a spell on it and the immediate area around her became filled with cloned daggers. She pointed towards the imps, and the daggers began to rain on the monsters. Good deals of them were killed. However, one casted a spell on itself, and it began to run at an extremely quick speed. It broke down the door at Kathryn's, and opened the door into the cold sleep capsule, where Jonas was held. The woman floated down, and ran into the doctor's abode. As she got there, she saw the imp teleport away with Jonas.
"Dammit… I gotta get to Kathryn!" The woman scowled, and flew up into the sky. As she got a good deal upwards, she rushed towards Qlon, where Kathryn was. This woman, Nyra, was Kathryn's sister, and one of the keys needed to revive Jonas.
In Lorimar, deep in the cave, a great light shined. Behind the light, an old man smiled a wicked smile, and his eyes glowed.
Back to our default heroes…
"So… this is Qlon Temple, eh?" Vapid said quizzically as he and the others walked into the deserted ground.
"Yes… But we need to go through it to get to our real goal: The Qlon Cave. There's a type of mineral there that we can use to revive Jonas. However, my sister is the only one who can perform the revival ritual. She's going to bring Jonas to us in about..." Kathryn looked at her watch. "…6 hours. She can fly, believe it or not, so getting her that fast is a snap." Mindcry and Xavier nodded, uninterested, while Vapid's eyes nearly jumped out of his skull. "Whoa! Amazing! Unreal! I gotta see it!!" Xavier walked over to him, and smacked him over the head. He shook his head.
"If we all waste our time here, Jonas will rot away." Xavier stated morbidly. He began to walk in quickly after, and the others followed.
(Serial Experiments Lain – Kiri no Izigen)
As the group walked into the cave, they felt something pulling them in. They began to run down the corridor. As they ran, they were enveloped in darkness, and when they came to, a man in a white robe stood in front of them. He had streaming grey hair, and he had an evil look about him. He stared at them, and shot a blast at them. The group ducked, and noticed Nyra standing in front of them, holding up a barrier. She clicked her tongue at the mage. "Tut… Crowley should be dead."
(Serial Experiments Lain – Antidepressant)
Kathryn stared at the old man. "That's the great magician Crowley?!" She asked nervously. Nyra nodded. Vapid shook his head.
"Well, we're screwed." He shook his head again. "But it's much more fun to put up a fight!" Crowley rose into the air.
"You puny mortals think you can defeat me?! I have the power of immortality, and I have 5000 runes embedded in my body! Cower in fear at the awesome magic powers of the runes!" Crowley rose up into the air. "Blazing Camp!!" Hundreds of yellow and red lights shone throughout his body, and a thunder cloud appeared above their heads. A giant bolt struck the group. And, as if to add insult to injury, the bolt caused a flood of magma to boil over the group. That's all Mindcry could see before she blacked out. Following her were Vapid, Xavier, and Kathryn. Nyra was the only one left standing.
Crowley cackled. "Foolish girl. I am immortal! Stay down, unless you wish to die with more pain!" Nyra took out a kunai, and hurled it at Crowley. It hit him in his chest, but all the emerged from the skin was dust. Nyra knew it to be true. This was a zombified version of Crowley. There was no way for him to be alive for almost 500 years, even with 5000 runes. She knew what to do.
"Hey! Come at me, without the power of runes!" Nyra taunted happily. Crowley charged at her, as she had planned. As he got within a foot of her, Nyra raised her hand, and a white light shined. "Seal Evil!" Crowley was frozen in place. Now! "Curaga!" Nyra casted a healing spell, which restores life, on the zombie. He melted into dust. Out of the dust, black smog formed, and from that, turned into a humanoid figure. The figure had purple skin melting off of its form, a tail, and no head.
"GREETINGS. I AM BETA45, THE PROPRIETOR OF EARTH. MY VIRUSES KILL STRONG WARRIORS, AND MAKE THEM MY SLAVES. LOOK AT WHO I WHIPPED UP…" Nyra stood, on guard. She quickly casted Full-Life spells on Kathryn and the others. The group stood beside Nyra, and Mindcry apprehensively stood behind them, fearing the worst. The warrior Beta45 had promised had walked. He had black hair, wore purple armor, and carried a sword. It was Jonas. Mindcry's eyes widened and a tear streamed from her left eye.
"Jonas!" She ran towards him. However, Nyra knew something was amiss. Kathryn also felt something wrong. As Mindcry got within a few feet of Jonas, he mindlessly raised his sword. "J-Jonas..?"
Mindcry felt a searing pain going from her right breast down to the left side of her stomach. His blade was covered with blood, and the shirt Mindcry wore was now covered in it, also. Xavier immediately rushed to the bleeding girl's side. Luckily, Jonas didn't strike any major organs. Otherwise, she'd be in deep shit. He casted Curaga on her, and her wounds were patched up, though it left a scar. She silently stood up. She faced the ground, but turned towards Beta45.
"You can hurt me, and you can even take my life." She looked up at Beta45 with a look of pure hatred. "But when you hurt my friends, I CANNOT FORGIVE YOU." With that, Mindcry shined a purple light. When the light cleared, her hair was now white, and she wore a black robe. She had entered Super Mode. "Guys, I'll take care of this trash. You guys keep Jonas occupied, and don't kill him!"
(Final Fantasy X – Challenge)
"YOU THINK YOU CAN DEFEAT ME?! ALONE, NO LESS!" Beta45 whistled, and two zombified mages joined the fray, casting spells on Kathryn and Nyra. They dodged them easily enough, and went to deal with the troublesome wizards. Xavier and Vapid continued to fight Jonas, while Mindcry got ready to fight the alien.
"Acupuncture!" Mindcry floated into the air. She charged at the alien, and as she got in front of him, she formed a giant pin. She threw the needle at the alien, effectively hitting him in the 'chest,' and pinning him to a wall. After this was done, she formed a field of needles in front of her, and sent them flying at the alien. They each broke the skin with sickening bursting sounds, and disappeared. As they faded away, a gunk of what appeared to be blood spurted out of the holes. Beta45 got angry.
"Talon Stabber!" He rushed at her, and slashed at her shoulder. She got hit by it, and crashed to the ground.
Nearby, Kathryn and Nyra were having trouble against these skilled mages. One wore a white robe, one wore a black robe, both were dusty, eroded zombies, and both were casting powerful energy spells. Kathryn and Nyra looked at each other. "More powerful than we thought…" Nyra smirked morbidly to her younger sister. "Wanna unleash THAT skill?"
Kathryn smiled. "Hell yeah!" Kathryn and Nyra put their hands together and faced each other. They turned towards the mages.
"White Meteor!" A great light shined from them, and a mass of energy swooped down on the zombie mages, leaving them as nothing more than dust. Inside the dust was the herb needed to revive Jonas. Nyra picked it up, and held it carefully.
"Hmph… That bastard used my special herbs to revive the corpses!" Nyra scoffed. Kathryn shook her head.
"Well, maybe if you grew your damned herbs in a NORMAL place, such as a GARDEN, these things wouldn't happen!"
"What, and ruin the plot?"
As the VanZelta siblings were having their, err, discussion, Jonas and Xavier were fighting off Jonas, who was attacking with more ferocity than ever before.
"Downer Slash!" Jonas slashed at the Nightshadow Brothers. Each leapt to either side. Xavier scoffed. "This is bad. If we can't fight back, it's only a matter of time before he takes us down. Vapid shook his head while dodging another blow.
"Believe in Mindcry." He simply whispered. Xavier smiled.
"I suppose this is up to her, now."
As the Nightshadow brothers were dodging Jonas, Mindcry was still charging at Beta45. As she went in to attack him again, he disappeared.
"Huh?! Where did he…?" She felt a pain go through her back. Beta45 had teleported behind her. Mindcry however, did not bleed. She instead calmly rose into the air, and the whole area around her and the others became a black nothingness.
(Witch Hunter Robin – Flame)
"Now, you will feel all the pain I've felt over losing a friend to your virus! And more for forcing me and my other friends to fight him! Now! Die!" She charged at him, but as she got close, she disappeared. Beta45 searched, until he felt pain on his tail. Mindcry used a knife to hack it off. She then picked it up.
"And this is for the others you've killed!" And with that, she stabbed Beta45 in the back with his own tail, causing him to blow into dust. With that, Jonas fell to the ground, dead.
(Courtney Love – Hold On to Me)
Nyra crumpled the herb into dust. She then sprinkled it onto Jonas. Nyra then stood in front of him, and chanted a few ancient dialects. She then stood side by side by Kathryn. The two of them started what appeared to be a tribal dance. Nyra stepped right, Kathryn stepped left, and the two of them continued in this 'Opposites' pattern. Finally, then both clapped their hands, and Jonas rose into the air. Kathryn stepped back, and Nyra repeated the same ancient dialects. Finally, he gently dropped onto the ground. Mindcry ran over to him, and kneeled by him. He smiled, and opened his eyes.
"God says 'Hi.'" He smirked, and Mindcry hugged him, tearing up. "Jonas! It's you! It's really you!" Jonas held her also. "I'll never let go…" As the happy couple was having their time alone, The Nightshadows and VanZeltas stepped out of the corridor.
Xavier faced Nyra. "We cannot thank you enough. You've saved our friend, and helped us make another friend much happier. Whatever you want us to pay, we will happily pay it." Nyra closed her eyes, and shook her head.
"It makes me happy to see that happen. That's all the payment I need… Actually…" Nyra smiled sheepishly. Vapid stared.
"We'd like to join your group!" Kathryn and Nyra put their hands together and stared anime-chibi-style, complete with sparkling eyes. Vapid and Xavier sweatdropped.
"Yeah! As of now, you're part of our group! We're honored to have you as companions!" Vapid said cheerfully.
Kathryn and Nyra joined the Azure Nights… Wait! That's not right!
Outside the cave, the group got lined up. Kathryn raised her hand.
"Ready?"
(One Piece – Before Dawn)
"Go!" And the six friends ran off in a race. The group continued to run, until Jonas tripped Xavier, and this caused a chain reaction which caused the entire group to fall. After this, they all just ran freely. They were the Azure Nights, and their friendship withstood all bounds! There they went, off into the sunset.
To Be Continued….
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AN: Well… This chapter has been an absolute bitch to write. I've been trying to get my sleep back in order, and the only good time to write these chapters in late night. So… Anyways, I'm going to try to pump out one more chapter before school starts this Wednesday. Wish me luck!