Love Lasts Forever
Chapter 15: The Final Battle
Guest Starring: Tails the Fox and Shadow the Hedgehog(my faves)!
Previously on Love Lasts Forever: Hamtaro and his friends send the guards to a hungry eagle, and they die...Of course:). Then, when Hamtaro reaches the Scepter of Heaven's Light at the top of the giant staircase, he feels they have completed their quest. Not yet, they haven't. At the bottom of the steps waiting for him, is none other than Glacier! Now, Hamtaro and Glacier will have the final showdown, light against dark, weapon against weapon, for the whole world, and the story will conclude as Hamtaro takes his place......
Bijou and the others were tied up. Hamtaro looked at Spat for a moment but his wings were binded together. Glacier leaned against his weapon. It was different from the others. It was a pitch-black staff, with diamond and onyx(a black gem. Yes, it's real), and a pointed end sharper than any Hamtaro had ever seen. Hamtaro frowned. "The Staff of Darkness". Glacier nodded, and smiled evily. Hamtaro looked at his friends, and looked at Bijou. Glacier looked at her, and just to make Hamtaro mad, Glacier slapped Bijou across her face. Bijou shut her eyes tight, trying not to cry. Hamtaro was mad now. No, he was FURIOUS!!!! He took the Scepter of Heaven's Light and ran at Glacier.
They fought outside the Temple. They were both extrememly fast. It seemed as if the weapons powered up their owners. They clashed with their weapons and tried to hurt one another. Every time their weapons would hit each other, there would be a small flash. Hamtaro dodged a close miss and got Glacier in the back all of a sudden. Hamtaro knew it was over. Then, weakly, Glacier smiled and said, "You think you've won? Not yet! One life down, three more to go!" Then, all of a sudden, the Staff of Darkness was forced into a black, floating, electric orb that floated above the trees. Hamtaro watched as Glacier passed away, and then turned into his second life-form, Kamikuro, the winged beast!
Hamtaro didn't panic on the outside. On the inside, he was petrified. Hamtaro made sure he dodged every one of the beast's swoops from the sky. Then, Hamtaro remembered. Swoops. The golden eagle. "A cut on the leg won't do me any good," he thought. Hamtaro dashed behind a tree while Kamikuro wasn't looking, and tried to think of a plan. It was going to be hard bringing him down. Hamtaro thought about what he had just said. Bringing him down...."That's it!" Hamtaro jumped out from behind the tree, and Kamikuro saw him. The beast dived at him at top speed, and Hamtaro ducked when it was right above him, and grabbed on to it's panther-like paw!
Kamikuro flailed like crazy with Hamtaro on him. Hamtaro held on tight and climbed uphis leg and onto his back! He held on to Kamikuro's fur and scrambled over to the beast's wing. Then, holding on to some fur on the beast's shoulder, he was just about to thrust the Scepter through the beast's thin, bat-like wing, when Kamikuro starting flailing it's long, draconic tail at Hamtaro like a whip! Every time Hamtaro dodged it, Kamikuro would only hit himself, but he didn't care. Then, Kamikuro's tail hit Hamtaro! Instead of flying off of him, though, Hamtaro held on to the tip of his tail! Hamtaro ran back up, and ran to the wing. As quickly as possible, he thrust the Scepter through the wing, and Kamikuro couldn't hold his weight with just ONE wing. He fell, faster and faster toward the ground, and Hamtaro leapt off just before he crashed.
Then, Hamtaro shakily got to his feet, and looked at the fallen beast. The next form was the dragon, Inferno! It reared it's head and bent its neck like an angry snake would, and hissed, "Thisssss issss your fate! Die!!" He blew a flamethrower at Hamtaro, and Hamtaro dashed in another direction to try and get away. Hamtaro hid himself behind a large rock. "I can't cut through those scales very easily...I'd need a tidal wave to put out those fires. Even powder won't produce that. He looked at his tied up friends. I need someone to free my friends so Spat can help me. I remember Laura's other friend...I can't remember her name...She was talking about her favorite cartoon characters...."That's it!!" Hamtaro thought about when he'd seen the charachters on a video game before and took some powder. He blew it, and there was a flash.
There, standing before him, was Shadow the Hedgehog, and Tails the Fox! "Wha??" Shadow looked down at Hamtaro. "What do you want? Why are we here?" Hamtaro said, "I need your help. Tails?" The fox looked at him. "Yeah?" Hamtaro said, "You can fly. I need you to fly over to that temple and untie my friends. It should be big enough for you to get in." Tails flew over to the temple, and flew a little faster there when he saw the enormous size of that dragon. Shadow said, "Uh, what should I do?" "Help me beat that dragon," Hamtaro said. It was a good thing Shadow wasn't afraid of mostly anthing. He nodded, and they dashed after the dragon. The dragon was extremely confused. Inferno kept his focus on Shadow, when Hamtaro thought of something. "Shadow!" Shadow turned his attention toward Hamtaro. "When he opens his mouth!" Hamtaro threw it to Shadow, and just when Inferno was opening his mouth and was just about to bite Shadow, Shadow shoved the pointed end into the roof of the dragon's mouth and through his head.
The dragon wheeled and screeched in torment and pain. It bent to its knees, let off another roar, and fell dead. Then, as Shadow began to leave, Hamtaro said, "Wait.." The dragon began to change. As Hamtaro looked up, the Staff of Darkness was falling toward the changing form of the dragon. Then, with a flash, the body took its final form. It was a chimera! A chimera is a creature with three heads. One is a lion's head that breathes fire, one is a ram that breathes jets of water, and the other was on the tip of the chimera's tail. The tail was half of the body of a giant green snake, with the head at the tip breathing waves of acid. It also had beautiful, dark raven wings. Hamtaro looked for a moment. then, he said, "Shadow! Go to the Temple, and help Tails protect my friends!" Shadow nodded and dashed to the Temple. The others were untied, and Bijou was watching with hope and sadness at the same time.
Hamtaro didn't know what to do at all now. Then, the Scepter of Heaven's Light started to glow, and a white, mist formed around Hamtaro. It was something no one could see through, and it grew bigger and bigger until it was the size of the chimera itself! Then, as the mist faded awat, there was a huge tiger.Hamtaro looked down at himself, smiled, and roared ferociously. Hamtaro recognized that there was a crescent moon symbol on his forehead. Hamtaro didn't know if this would stop it, but he decided on the plan of cutting off all it's heads with his two-foot long claws. The chimera flew into the air, and Hamtaro ran at full speed at it. The chimera had just been flying a little to gain speed, so he landed and ran straight at Hamtaro. They were charging at each other like two knights would during a jousting round. The chimera charged with his mouth ready to shoot a blaze at Hamtaro, while Hamtaro was extending his claws.
They hit each other. Hamtaro got a little burnt just before he cut the lion head off. Now, he had to deal with the ram's head, which could blow him away with a tidal wave and break one of his limbs with a single charge with the horns. The ram came charging and hit Hamtaro in the side, which knocked him down, and there was a huge tremor when he fell. He got up, hurting but not broken, and used his mouth to pick up a boulder beside one of the trees and threw it at one of the ram's horns, breaking it off. Then, He picked up the horn and slashed the pointed side at its neck to chop it's head off. One more head to go.
The snake was a tough one, though. Its neck would be a breeze to cut through, but it was difficult to get there. One drop of that acid could kill Hamtaro, and slowly! He dodged the jets of acid quickly, and then he decided he nedded to block the streams with something powerful. He couldn't place anything. Hamtaro ran about, dodging acid, and thinking to himself. Hamtaro tried everything possible. Trees, rocks, chunks of gold from one of the statues, everything! Then he remembered. The powder! He ran over to the bag, dipped his claw in it, and blew on it. all around him, a transparent, misty-white shield formed around him. The acid hit it, and nothing happened! The snake stopped and hissed in petrified horror as Hamtaro the tiger cut it's head off and finished the chimera.
Hamtaro, still in his tiger form, walked over to the palace, and laid down next to it. Bijou came out, and she ran over to him and hugged as much of him as she could. Hamtaro smiled, because she couldn't hug much of his huge paw. He told everybody to get on his back, so Bijou, Boss, Daisy, Spat, Shadow, and Tails hopped on. Hamtaro lumbered down the mountain at a good pace, and about an hour later, they were back at the city. They boarded everyone onto Hamtaro the tiger's back, and headed back for the village.
A week later...
The Rainbow Village was completely fixed, and the empty castle was restored to its former beauty. Shadow and Tails were just about to be transported to their world with the last of that powder, when Hamtaro said, "Shadow? Tails?" They knelt down. "Hey Hamtaro," Tails said. "We'll never forget you, or any of this..." Shadow smiled. "If you ever call us, we'll come back, and we may even bring some friends." Hamtaro shook hands with them as much as he could, and watched as they waved before there was a giant flash. They were in their world again. Gone.
Hamtaro walked into the empty palace. With Bo gone, it seemed so dark. Hamtaro went through the great halls, the lounges, bedrooms, and kitchens. He went to the library and saw the book they started their quest's knowledge on. He opened the cover and saw a note. Hamtaro frowned. He opened it and read:
Hamtaro,
Don't worry. I know I am dead, but my kingdom will live on. On our trip,
before I died, I told you I wanted you to become king if something
happened to me. Well, it looks like something did. Tell everyone that
I'm in a better place now, and am seeing my ancestors again. I know
you will make a good king, and remember to always keep that
Scepter in a safe place. One question though. Where's Dexter?
Didn't he die before I did? I guess he's okay and happy with you guys.
Don't neglect the job I gave you, Hamtaro. It's your kingdom now.
One and only,
Prince Bo
P.S.: Tell Daisy that I love her and always will.
Hamtaro folded the letter again. He started to cry a little, but he shook it away. He went to Daisy's home and showed her the letter. Then, he showed it to everyone in the village. Everyone knew that this wasn't a fraud. Hamtaro would be proclaimed king a week later, and Hamtaro was given all sorts of things. The best things the villagers loved about him was that he was a hero and there weren't any taxes,
The End
Thank You For Reading:
Love Last Forever
Elisa Kiyomi Volonakis