Disclaimers 'n' crap: Haihai peeps! 3 chapters up within 24 hours…what's wrong with me? Anyhoo, here it is: Scott and Elaine: The Final Confrontation…for now. This is a pretty short chapter though. I edited out the songfic part because the site seems to have something against them now (see the 4/27/2005 disclaimer on the homepage). It wasn't that important. Virtually no one reading this fic would know that song (Kiss Me Sunlights) because people pretty much only bought its game of origin (Zone of the Enders for the PS2) because it had the demo for Metal Gear Solid 2 attached…and that was 4 years ago. Also, you'd NEED to know the song's melody to envision it fitting in this chapter. On another note, you already know who and what I do and don't own. Enjoy!
Scott stepped forward, slowly, but menacingly. Elaine stepped back too, looking terrified.
"Scott, what's wrong with you?" she said, then she smiled "You wouldn't kill me, I'm family!"
"You're no family of mine," said Scott, almost talking in two voices "Do you remember my dad? Yes, of course you remember him. The day after Shelby and I got married, he committed suicide. Why? Because our wedding reminded him that marrying YOU was what tore him away from ME!"
"It's not my fault that your dad chose to marry me…" Elaine was cut off, by Scott's hand around her neck. He drew his blade.
"Die," he said in a near Satanic voice "And never…come…back…" The aura around him reached a peak as Scott thrust his sword, Switchblade, he called it, into Elaine's chest. Scott concentrated the aura around him into Switchblade and Elaine shrieked as she began to disintegrate. Suddenly, there was a flash of black and before Scott could tell what was happening, he was falling over the side of the tower. He hit the ground below with a hard thud.
I lay there, in the dirt, covered in blood, and not just my blood. Whose blood? Shelby's blood, Elaine's blood, my blood. I didn't know Elaine could bleed. Maybe the Queen was serious when she said there was still some human left in Elaine. No, just physical human, not emotional. But…then…how does that explain Aelita?
Aelita knelt beside Elaine's disintegrating form, tears flowing silently down her pale cheeks.
"Mother…" she whimpered.
"Aelita," said Elaine, smiling like a proud mother, and expression she'd die before letting Scott see "I knew you'd come back to me. Listen, we share a unique bond. We transferred half of ourselves to each other when I became a demon. You…must take my place…when I am gone."
"Half of me dies with you today," said Aelita, speaking a common philosophy of death that was taking a very literal meaning at that moment "But half of you will live on within me." Elaine smiled again, nodded, and disappeared completely. Aelita sat there for a few more minutes before rising to her feet and walking over to the shattered pieces of Elaine's blade. She bent over and put her hands over them. A circle of light appeared around them and Aelita. As the pieces came together, Aelita began to change. She was growing up. Just seconds later, a grown demon woman stood holding a shining sword on top of the tower. Aelita still looked like herself, but she looked like Elaine too. She still had the pale hair, skin, dress, and soulless-looking eyes, but in stature, she had Elaine's body. She held up the sword and looked at the reflection in the polished magical metal.
She saw Elaine's face staring back at her, smiling.
Well, that's how it all got that way. Yeah, I know I just fell from about 100 feet, but, like I said, I always survive. I can hear someone calling for me in the distance. Michelle? Is that her? I can't tell…everything's going black…
Let's get a few things straight right now: No, Scott is NOT dying. That's the whole point he's trying to make: HE DOEN'T DIE. No, this is NOT the last chapter in the fic. It's a nice place to stop, but there's still some other stuff I want to put in.
Scott: Sooooooo…where IS this fic going to end?
Hannah: (singsong voice) I can't tell yoooou. However, I AM thinking about just putting 2 or 3 more chapters in.
