LefthandedFreak: I came under the realization that there is about two more chapters left of this story and….I cried.
Joey: Your weird.
LefthandedFreak: Seriously, I don't know how writers ever finish a book. You just get so attached to the characters and it's so hard to let go.
Joey: Talk to the reviewers.
LefthandedFreak: All right.
HellsEternalFlameDude! You gave me a Scandalus! Awesome! Woot! Hope you like this chapter! And, I added some humor too!
DragonLady222I hope you really enjoy this chapter. Of course our fab four have got to save Fate. Why else would they be here? Unless…!
Joey: (covers her mouth) Shush! You can't reveal what's going to happen. Bad of you to try. Time for story!
LefthandedFreak: Mmph!
Side Note: Sorry for anything mispelled or any other errors. Took forever to write and paretns kept bugging.
Her eyes felt heavy as her legs trembled beneath her, all this noise diminishing little by little. The talking had stopped and now there was only the brutal cold stares left to drive her to the ground. Fate gripped the podium tighter, trying to keep steady as her legs twitched beneath her. She didn't want to know why they where shaking. She didn't want to know why she was here.
She didn't want to know her own Fate…
A voice boomed loudly throughout the room and she tried, oh how she tried to hear what was said but it was only done in vain, the noises hitting her at full force. An irruption of cheers was all it took to tell her what her verdict was, however, and she was soon pulled away from where she stood, being dragged by too strong arms. She didn't try to pull away, it seemed all of her strength had left her.
It seemed her vision was going to leave her too.
If she was to have anything, anything at all at that moment, she would wish to see earth one last time. She never knew why but she had always felt a sort of connection with the lush planet she had never placed until now. Pity that she hadn't realized it earlier. She felt herself being thrown back into the cold room whilst the others figured out her demise. She didn't mind.
She laid her head back on the floor and closed her eyes.
Aphrodite raised her hand, knocking the blade out of Persephone's grip and causing the other to scream in anger.
"WHY ARE YOU TRYING TO STOP THE INVETIBLE? JUST DIE AND BE HAPPY ABOUT IT!" Her red face glowed in the dim kitchen light as anger surged through her. Aphrodite frowned before starting to approach, knocking items out of her way as they flew at her.
"You don't want to do this Persephone, it'll only make things worse. If we die, who will be left to blame?" Persephone growled at Aphrodite's comment before nodding at Kaiba, Joey, Yugi, and Yami, or in short, the Guys.
"Their humans, crazed and filthy beasts. It won't matter if I kill them; they have flaws. Besides, if I kill you I have the perfect bait to take the blame." She smirked before throwing a ball of light at Aphrodite causing the other to knock into the others.
Aphrodite quickly gained her composure before returning the assault back. Persephone dodged and disappeared, Aphrodite looking for her, before she reappeared from behind and rammed the other against the wall. "You really should be more careful on who you become an enemy of. They might just snap." A pan collided with the back of her, knocking her away from the lady of love, who immediately gasped for air.
Kaiba turned to face Persephone as she pulled herself up and glared at him. "I bet you thought that was funny, didn't you?" she eyed the pan in his hand.
"Highly actually." An orange chain shot from her hand and wrapped around him tightly as he spoke before she pulled and yanked him to the ground. Grabbing a knife from the table she lunged at him before being ramned in the middle by a certain blonde. "You're like bloody cockroaches. You try to get rid of one and suddenly there's more!"
"Ya, well, it's not like where going to stand still and let you kill us!" Joey muttered as he struggled to pull the blade from his hands. She glared up at him before looking down and smirking. Pulling her knee up sharply, she easily pushed Joey off of her as he grasped himself in pain.
"Sucks to be male, don't it?" She aimed the dagger at him before she was hit in the face. "What is it, lets all up and attack Persephone! Listen, this would be less painful if you'd stop bloody popping out of nowhere and helping each other" She spun around, grabbed Yami from behind and flung him across the room. "I mean, come on!"
She turned and grabbed Yugi's fist that had been coming at her from behind, twisting his arm, as her eye seemed to twitch. Yugi winced in pain and tried to pull away from her grip. "Why are you trying to get away? Didn't you want to fight?" Yugi dropped to his knees. "Come on now! Hit me!" She turned suddenly and blasted an oncoming Kaiba onto the floor before she twisted around and flipped Joey upside down and into the air. "I have no time for these childish games! If your gonna make a dent at least make one that packs a little punch.."
The sound of a bell resounded through the room, causing Persephone to let go of Yugi, who was immediately pulled back by Yami, Joey falling to the floor in a painful heap. She turned and smirked at the guys as she started to laugh.
"It seems as if Fate's punishment has been chosen. And what a Fate it is. To be ripped into insanity and die in the most horrific way! I almost forgot that a human, well, former human, would get the most awful of punishments for killing a higher being! It's so horribly sweet I can feel myself getting cavities". Aphrodite suddenly pounced from behind and rapped what looked like a plug around her neck. Persephone's eyes darkened and sent Aphrodite flying into the wall with such force, it caused a dent.
"Um, something's tells me abnormal eyes color and weird glowing is NOT a good sign", Joey backed away with the others as she turned at them. Neither seemed to notice the figure in the door.
A bright light landed on pale skin as Fate clenched her eyes tightly. It was becoming too bright for her likening. She felt another pair of strong arms wrap around her and pull her up. She didn't even have the strength to stand as she was flopped across someone's shoulder and carried out. She could literally feel the eyes burning into her with such force that she could of sworn that she might burst into flames at any time.
After awhile of travel she was carelessly thrown to the floor in another room, left in broken mass. She already knew they where draining her of her abilities, leaving her weak and immobile. She wanted to believe that she was scared but still, she felt nothing. Maybe she had finally accepted her Fate. Funny how she'd accept the one thing she was, letting Truth do some justice.
And she didn't even get her money from that poker game from Truth now that she thought about it. Darn, too late now. A bright light suddenly appeared in the corner of the room and slowly, little by little, started to spread into the cracks and corners. Fate didn't move however, she just laid there and stared at it. She knew what it was. She had witnessed one other having stared into the light before it hit them. She'd never forget the screams from that day.
Right now, it didn't matter. Fact was, she was starting to believe she had murdered Hades. He was heartless a lot and picked on her like crazy, why wouldn't she kill him? Still, something in the back of her mind kept screaming at her something that just had to be incoherent. Darn.
She sighed, as the light grew closer to her. She suddenly felt tears sliding down her face as she averted her eyes from the shining light. It must have been painful to look at for her body to do that. She probably would have given it more thought if someone hadn't just blasted through the wall from behind and slid into her back. Willing herself, she rolled over and came face to face with..
"Joey?" the blonde had his face scrunched with pain and snapped his eyes open at her voice. A smile quickly lightened his face.
"Fate, we found you! Now we can…" he was suddenly cut off by another body flying and hitting him from behind.
"Um, guys, I'd rather not be shoved closer to the bright shiny light of death", Fate muttered as she made out Yugi crawling out of a painful position from behind Joey. His head quickly snapped at her as she spoke.
"Fate! We found you!" She rolled her eyes.
"So I've been told. Tell me, should I be expecting anyone else to ram into me?" As if on cue, three more people shot out and landed either on top of the existing pile of people or next to. "Never mind, I seemed to be cursed with finding out for myself" She peered over to find Yami, Aphrodite, and..
"Aries? I thought you where on a raid in Cambodia?" He raised a brow at her.
"You know, for a girl who's about to die, you should be happy I came back. I thought something fishy was going on." Fate just raised a brow.
"Like what? I didn't commit murder or something like that?". Aries nodded.
"To a point", another body flew from the hole in the wall and landed onto the others.
"Oh come on! How many people are going to fly out of the rabbit hole? I mean, Jeeze, I wouldn't mind if you ran in or anything but flying in and landing on me or shoving me closer to the pointy teeth of death is not what I had in mind." The others just looked at her as she made out Yami pulling himself out of twisted before she shrugged. "So, if I didn't kill anyone and am not going crazy, than who did? Kill anyone at least, don't know if they went crazy but it is a-"
"Oh, for a person who's about to die, you sure do talk a lot", Persephone stepped out of the rubble, arms crossed in annoyance. "And for being blasted through a bunch of walls, you sure know how to stay alive". She glared down at Joey. "I mean, the others didn't even hit the wall, you went through five! Your one of those impossible people to kill, aren't you?"
"Kill? Why are you trying to kill him?" Fate raised a brow and lifted her head a bit. Persephone rolled her eyes.
"Oh, if that wasn't the biggest give away of all I don't know what is!" Aphrodite glared up at her as she wiped some sort of silver liquid from her face.
"You killed Hades." Fate barely whispered as realization hit her.
"Oh, she gets it!" Persephone titled her head. "But you know, this sort of works out cause now I can kill you myself." Aphrodite jerked her leg out, knocking Persephone to the floor. The other growled in deviance before rolling over and knocking Aphrodite through the wall again. Fate tried to pull herself up before collapsing back to the ground. She was too weak to do anything but lie there. Persephone turned immediately and started her way back, knocking Kaiba to the side as he stood up along with Aries.
Yugi placed himself in front of Fate as Yami was knocked back and into Kaiba. Persephone glared down at them, Fate grabbing hold of Yugi's wrist. "Yugi, get out of the way. Please, I don't want you to get hurt." Persephone's eyes lit up as she heard this. Yugi didn't even turn to face her.
"I won't let her hurt you." Persephone suddenly shot out a hand. Yugi knocked her right arm out of the way but couldn't stop the left from wrapping around his neck and lifting him up off the ground.
"Oh but you should really respect Fate's wishes. She doesn't want you to get hurt right?", she held him towards the light that was slowly drawing closer. "And now she'll have to watch you die as she doesn't have the strength to do anything about it." Joey attacked from behind but was quickly reflected back and onto the floor. Fate couldn't even glare.
She had had enough. Struggling, Fate tried to pull herself as the light came closer Yugi's struggling form from within Persephone's grasp. She was weak, hurt, and was suddenly starting to feel something twist in her stomach. Something she had never felt before. She watched as Joey tried again and fell back in agony. Again and again, he tried to pull through the barrier Persephone had obviously raised to block them off.
"Yugi, hold on, I'll get you out of there". Tears where streaking down his face as he desperately tried again and again to get through. Fate couldn't take it, she didn't want them to hurt.
She had to complete her mission.
Persephone was taken by complete surprise as Fate suddenly lunged forward, knocking Yugi out of her grasp and onto Joey. Persephone fell to the ground, Fate on top, drawing back a fist and punching her.
"This is for my friends", she pulled back before Persephone could strike and hit her again. "This is for Hades". Persephone shoved her off and stood but soon realized Fate hadn't let her go. She tried to pry her hand off but found it stuck to her wrist. Persephone aimed a punch at Fate but they where all dodged.
"What are you doing!" Persephone shrieked as she desperately tried to pry Fate's fingers from her arm. The brown haired girl, as emotionless as she appeared, smiled before wrapping her arms around a struggling Persephone.
"What, you've never heard of dead man's grip?" Fate jerked violently and pulled Persephone with her and into the white light.
"FATE!". Kaiba pulled Yugi back as he tried to reach for the girl. He could only watch as Persephone shrieked and fell to pieces, melting to the floor and turning to dust. Fate fell to the ground, shaking before peering at the others. The light had stopped spreading through the room and had encircled her figure as she sat, shaking violently.
"Fate…", she looked up at the four and smiled, shifting closer to the edge of the light. Kaiba let Yugi go as Fate reached out of the light and touched his face, stopping a tear that fell. He hadn't even realized he had been crying. She smiled sadly at him before placing her hand on Yugi's cheek, his crying much worse than his.
"Please don't cry, it's only death." She chuckled lightly, "As some say, it's the next great adventure. Besides, being a higher being is not as it all cracked up to be.", She started to cry too. "You make to many friends and say too many goodbyes." Yugi grabbed hold of her hand, holding it to his face.
"Can't you just.." Fate shook her head.
"I've already been weakened too much. I'd just die anyways. Besides, if I walk right out, it'll spread again and I couldn't have it hurt you." She smiled weakly. "Besides, now that your together and here, I'm sure you won't forget me."
Aphrodite was pulling Aries out of a pile of rubble, tears falling from her own face. "We came to save a life and it was all for nothing." Fate shook her head and looked at Joey.
"Don't say that. In fact, you have given me the greatest gift." Her feet slowly disappeared as she flinched in pain before smiling; a weird glitter making it's way up her body, causing it to vanish slowly.
"What…what was that?" Fate looked at Yugi as the glitter made it's way up her neck.
"I can feel again…" With that, Fate disappeared, and even though her body was gone and maybe even her soul, they could feel her still there and in their presence.
LefthandedFreak: (sobs) Fate!
Joey: (pats her back) you knew it was going to happen.
LefthandedFreak: I know but it's still so sad. Anyways, I'm thinking of doing a sequel so I have two chapters left.. You all have the choice of either…
No continuation or
Continuation
I hope to hear your votes! Next time, if continuation wins, I'll let you pick a choice. But since the next chapter since it's not up yet you can tell me any ideas you may want to see the group through next time that is if you vote for continuation.
Joey: You are a sad, sad excuse for a human.
LefthandedFreak: I know, I'm working on it. Read and Review.