Chapter 9

Rosa screamed as a plasma blast hit her in the chest and sent her flying and into the ground with a loud crash. She moaned slightly, fading in and out of consciousness. Aries walked towards her, murder on his mind. If Rosa could never be his, than she wouldn't belong to anyone else, EVER! His fists clenched, forming red plasma. His teeth were together and his green eyes were wild. He continued to step towards the defenseless girl, not a hint of compassion in his eyes. He finally got to her and held up a large red blast of plasma. At that instant, her eye shot open and she gasped as she saw him standing over her, ready to kill her. She shut her eye tight, fearing that this was the end.

Danny saw the two and gasped, he flew as fast as he could and slammed into Aries, knocking him to the ground, and the red blast of plasma firing into the sky and hitting the side of a nearby building. His green eyes glared fiercely into Danny's. The two stood up and held glowing blasts of plasma in their hands. Rosa stood up, in the middle of the fray. The wind blew softly, softly caressing each person, and causing their hair to slightly float. Both boys kept glaring at each other and Rosa stood confused at the two boys. Rosa seemed like she was trying to decide something. She looked hard at Aries, almost as if trying to stare into him, then the wind blew away the hair from her other eye and she gasped at what she saw. Her lizard eye focused on his form and saw deep inside his being, a light of goodness. So pure and light, she felt at ease suddenly. The light suddenly turned into the form of good Aries. He looked like he saw her too and smiled softly. Then his lips moved, it looked like he said, "Kill me.." Rosa's face turned to horror. He looked at her pleadingly. Then his mouth spoke again. "I will kill you if you don't, please. I don't want to hurt anyone." Rosa could only stare at him, her face filled with concern and worry. Her concentration was suddenly broken, by Danny who knocked her to the ground, with him on top of her. Rosa briefly saw a blast of red barely pass the two as they were on the ground. Danny quickly got back up and retaliated with blasts of his own.

"I wont let you hurt her again!" Danny yelled, now forming beams of green from his hands and firing at Aries. Aries only smirked and formed clones of himself, Danny gasped and quickly put a shield up as all of the Aries fired their blasts at him. They hit the shield with extraordinary power and Danny closed his eyes tight and tried to keep his focus.

Rosa got up and frowned. "Aries!!!" She yelled, her pink eye bright with anger.

All of the Aries stopped what they were doing and turned to Rosa.

"Stop this Aries! I know your good! You're half good and half bad! Stop this and take control again!" Rosa ordered.

Aries looked rather confused, then smirked evilly. "Good Aries can no longer be with us. I put him away for good."

"No..." Rosa said in disbelief. "He isn't gone! I know he isn't! I wont kill you either!"

"Why? Are you really that much of a good person, you think you can change me? Id like to see you try." Evil Aries grinned and advanced towards her. Danny jumped in front of Rosa and formed bright green beams in his hands.

"Go near her and I will slice this through your body." Danny warned.

"Id like to see you try." Evil Aries kept advancing.

Danny was about to fire, when Rosa yelled, "No!" and grabbed Danny's arms. The blast he formed flew off to the right of Aries and hit a light pole, causing it to fall down and wake up Star who was an inch next to the fallen pole.

"Rosa why did you do that?" Danny cried.

"There's still good in him, and as long as there is we cant destroy him! Besides he's not a ghost! We cant kill someone!" Both her and Danny started to back up as Aries came dangerously closer. Rosa grabbed a hold of Danny's arm, then yelled. "Aries concentrate! Don't let evil Aries kill us!" She looked at him pleadingly.

All of a sudden, Aries stopped, his face turned blank. Both Rosa and Danny started to relax. Aries blinked, and fell to his knees. The clones suddenly disappeared as well. He grabbed at his heart as the two people inside his body fought each other, when he opened his eyes, they no longer looked threatening.

"Guys... you have to kill me.." Aries said weakly.

"No we cant Aries...You will die too.." Rosa said.

"Do it...its better than having you all suffer." Aries said.

"No.. Rosa is right, we will help you..." Danny said, grinning.

Aries looked up at them. "Really?"

"Of course."

"Thanks I-"

"Look out!" Rosa cried, but she was too late, Aries turned to see Star with a piece of wood, she then slammed it into his head, sending him to the ground, unconscious.

"Star!" Rosa yelled. "That was good Aries!"

"Uh... Oops.." Star whispered.

"Yeah oops.." Aries eyes were open, and grinning evilly, he stood up. "Thank you Star for waking me back up." All of their faces turned pale.

Then Star narrowed her eyes and formed blasts in her hands. She fired them at him rapidly. At first he looked like he could handle it, he dodged each blast gracefully, but then one hit his leg and he was bombarded with blasts of yellow. He cried out and fell to the ground.

Rosa ran over to Star and grabbed her arm. "No Don't!"

Star turned her head sharply to Rosa. "C'mon Rosa.. the guys evil!"

"Not all evil.. you cant destroy him without destroying the good Aries too." Rosa looked at Star sadly.

"I know the consequences." Star shrugged Rosa off.

Rosa stared at her. "How could you be so cold?"

Star snapped, she whirled on Rosa. "Cold?! You think me saving your keester every time something happens to you COLD?! I'm protecting you Rosa! I'm not cold! I'm saving my friends!" She hissed.

"Isn't he your friend too?!" Rosa yelled. "Cause he's mine! Even if he tries to kill me or make me be his queen in evil or something! I don't hold it past people! Maybe you should think about doing the same."

"Guys?" Danny asked, as he saw Aries start to stand up.

"I'm not you miss goody two shoes! I'm who I am and you expect me to change my ways! He's EVIL! He will kill us all!" Star yelled.

"You want to kill him!? He is human too after all! And a good person! What right do you have to kill him!?"

"Guys?" Danny said louder, as Aries suddenly spotted them.

"What right do you have to protect him!? Do you want to put all your friends through this kind of torture or let him go in peace?!" Star retorted, her face turning a nice shade of red, from anger.

"Killing him isn't the answer! I don't buy that you have to kill every person because they might be just a little bit evil! Not everything has to be solved with violence!" Rosa's eye was forming tears.

"GUYS?!" Danny practically screamed as he saw Aries form blasts in his hands.

"WHAT?!" the two girls turned and yelled at him.

"Um, Duck.." Danny suddenly hit the dirt.

Both girls turned to see two red blasts heading for them. Both instantly followed Danny's example and jumped to the ground.

Star then jumped up after the blasts went past them, and formed her own blasts and also was glowing a slight yellow tinge. Her eyes showed ones of anger and revenge.

"STAR! DON'T!" Rosa yelled as loud as she could, she ran to follow, but Danny grabbed her arms.

"No! Star needs to learn this lesson on her own!" Danny told her.

"Your going to pay for everything we had to go through!" Star's eyes exploded with fury. She threw a punch at Aries, hitting him in the chest, he fell back and hit the wall hard, he seemed to be knocked out. She walked towards him, anger and vengeance clouding her thoughts. When he managed to open his eyes again, he saw Star above him, her white and yellow suit covered with dust and stains of blood. She formed blasts in her hands and clenched her teeth, looking at him like she was looking at a person who killed her best friend. He looked up at her, bad Aries no more, but good Aries. He looked really scared. His face streaked with cuts and the smallest hint of blood. His red hair had flakes of cement and dirt in them, also twigs and brown leaves. His suit was torn and matted with dried blood and dirt. He sat there, gapping at her, then closing his eyes as tears fell from them, He closed them tight and Star stopped in her tracks almost. Her face softened. Was this what Rosa was trying to tell her about? Star lowered her arm.

Aries waited for the blow, to end everything, at least he wouldn't hurt anyone else. Evil Aries would be dead, and him with it. He continued to wait as tears fell from his closed eyelids. When the blast never came, he opened his eyes and looked at a concerned Star. "Why are you standing there?! Kill me before I hurt anyone else!" Aries yelled.

Star's head finally was clear enough to think about Rosa told her. She shook her head and stepped back. "No, I wont."

"Why?! Ill hurt you! Kill me!" Aries cried, putting his head in his arms, crying so hard. He had always held the emotions in, until now. He couldn't take it anymore.

Star shook her head. "No, I wont.. because you're a someone! Your not just a evil halfa, your good too."

He looked up at her suddenly, his eyes had a glimmer of hope.

"You can control the evil, by remembering things that matter." Star said.

Aries nodded softly.

Rosa and Danny stood nearby, both smiling. Finally, all the fighting was over.