Chapter Four: Vengance
Author's Note:
Here's Chapter Four: Vengance. This chapter may seem like the ending, but it's just the beginning! Enjoy and review please! No flames! Until Chapter Five: Second Quest, see ya later! Also, check out my original novel on Fiction Press called, "Blasted Into Cyberspace." Under the same penname, CelestialTime93. ;-)
-CelestialTime93
Inez felt her heart sink. Matt gritted his teeth in anger.
"WHAT DID YOU DO TO HER?" Matt demanded at Hacker, setting his crystal to Sword Mode.
"Just a little persuading, that's all!" Hacker laughed.
As Hacker began to laugh evilly, Matt's sword began to glow brightly. He called out a battle cry and charged towards Hacker and Wicked.
"Matt!" Inez cried, "Look out!"
"Huh?" Matt almost hesitated when Alizia stood infront of Hacker and Wicked, holding up a Sheild Barrier.
Matt leaped up into the air, over the Shield Barrier, and slashed down at Hacker and Wicked. The only thing that got sliced, though, was Hacker's wig.
"Damn!" Matt cried, gritting his teeth as the Elvis-style wig got sliced in two.
"Matthew Phillip Williams, just what did you think you were doing? You almost hit your own daughter!" Jackie scolded.
"You think I was trying to hit her?" Matt shot back, "I jumped over her on purpose, ya know!"
"My wig!" Hacker cried, noticing that his head was bald, "What did you do to my wig?"
"Wig, shmig!" Jackie scoffed, "I'm lucky I have real hair!"
Alizia whirled around to face Matt. "Hydro Blast!" Alizia shot a blast of water at Matt.
"Gah!" Matt held up his blade infront of him blocking the strong jet, pushing him back slowly, "Alizia! I don't want to fight you!"
"Why?" Alizia demanded, "Because you're scared of me?"
Matt felt his fury grow, as his blade also glowed more brighter, and prevented Matt from going back any more. "Is that what the Dark Spirits taught you? To have a cold heart, and think that just because I'm not fighting you, means that I'm scared? You were a fool to believe in their lies! Instead of listening to your own mother, you listened to your enemies!"
"I don't have parents!" Alizia cried, "I'm an orphan!"
As Inez burst into tears, Matt gritted his teeth. He wasn't going to give up that easily.
"Take a look at yourself in the mirror, Alizia!" Matt cried, switching his crystal from Sword Mode to Mirror Mode.
Alizia disabled her Hydro Blast and stared at herself in the mirror.
"What similarities with us do you see?" Matt demanded, "And I tell you, this is a normal mirror! You don't see it glowing, nor sending magical energies to the atmosphere like what my sword did. What you see in this glass is true."
Alizia gasped when she saw the similarities. Inez's hair, and Matt's eyes. And deep down, a little spark of hyperness and innocence that the Dark Spirits patched up with their shadows.
"All of this..." Alizia stammered, "...is true?"
"The mirror never lies, Alizia." Matt said, putting the mirror away. He bent down to Alizia's level and looked at her in the eye. "I know a lot about you, Alizia. Infact, I know all about you."
"How?" Alizia asked.
"Because," Matt smiled, "I'm your father."
Alizia lightly gasped, "But...but the spirits told me that I was an orphan. And that my parents abandoned me..."
"Alizia," Matt reassured, "If there is one thing that the Dark Spirits don't know, is what Love is. The cower behind innocent souls like you, by telling you lies and persuading you to become one of them. The only way to face them, is to be yourself. Don't listen to what they say."
There was a brief silence, then Alizia spoke up again. "How do you know so much about these things?"
"I know a lot." Matt smiled, "But I don't know everything. All I can tell you is that you're a guardian, like me and my friends here. And, your mother."
"My...mother?" Alizia squeaked.
"Turn around," Matt told Alizia, "And scan the crowd of guardians, until you see yourself in a grown up form."
Alizia did what she was told. She scanned through the crowd of the guardians, and stopped until she met the eyes of Inez.
"She's..." Alizia stammered, "She's beautiful."
"Just like you." Matt said, standing up straight, "Well, don't just stand there! Go into the arms of your mother!"
Inez smiled. Alizia began to cautiously walk towards Inez. When she was inches away from Inez, Alizia fell into her arms.
"Glad to have you back, Alizia." Inez smiled.
