By Kevin Larry Ivy
I don't own the Powerpuff girls or any related characters. I do own Leviathan, Sezu, Kisu, Delu, Glyja, Beelzebub, and the six dark puffs.
The five heroines wander through the halls of the black palace, feeling they've waited long enough. Now the time has come to finally put an end to Leviathan's evil reign over the chaotic pits of the burning hells. They journey down the hall they'd seen Blitz take earlier. Hours upon hours drag by, as nothing around them looks any different. No doors or any turns, just endlessly wandering forward through the darkness. Suddenly they enter a massive chamber, containing two paths leading forward and right, and on the left wall a massive door with strange symbols covering it. The symbols seem vaguely familiar to Bomb and Battle, but none of the five can understand anything. The only really recognizable symbol is the pentagram in the center. On each of the five points is a different word written in some unreadable language.
"…I take it we use the big door?" asks Buttercup.
"I dunno…it might just be a library or something," says Bubbles, though she seriously doubts if that's even close to truth. In reality she is just hoping they'll keep going and avoid the final battle as long as possible.
"No, I'm sure that's it. Let's go," says Blossom. She walks up to the giant door, the others zipping behind her as they stare at it. Blossom gulps and pushes on the massive doors. Slowly they creak loudly and open, taking quite a bit of effort to open. Finally the gateway to the showdown is open and after a short moment of silence the girls head into the darkness, as the door slams shut behind them.
The room is completely dark, no light to be found at all. They stay huddled together as they wander into the darkness, expecting something to leap out and attack them at any moment. Flames burst and light up a few torches on the walls, giving a dull light to the dark room. They are standing in a massive circular, cathedral-type room. A massive pentagram is painted on the floor, with the same five words from before written across each point. And in the center of this room…are Blitz and Blood.
"It's about time you got here, I was getting bored," Says Blood. She stretches and gives Blitz a little push, snapping her out of her thoughts. "The losers are here," Blitz looks up and grins before nodding. The five heroines seem just slightly worried. Buttercup is again the first to think up a snappy comeback.
"Yeah right, we've gotten a lot tougher and there's no way you two can beat all five of us," she says with a bit of a waver in her voice. Brave as she is, Buttercup can't forget the horrible beating she received at Blood's hands. Blood cracks her knuckles and gives Buttercup a "Bring-It-On" gesture. Buttercup growls and flies at Blood. Blood leans back, just barely avoiding Buttercup's swing. Buttercup gulps a little and continues a furious assault on Blood. Blood continues to stay two-steps ahead of Buttercup. Buttercup powers up while continuing with her barrage of punches and kicks, but no matter how much harder she tries Blood stays a step ahead.
"What's wrong? Am I too fast for you?" She grabs Buttercup's fist and holds it with relative ease. Buttercup begins shaking as she tries harder and harder to overpower Blood. Blood jerks her forward and knees her in the stomach. Blood punches her in the face, knocking her back. Buttercup stumbles a bit, then gulps and lunges at Blood. Blood steps to the side and shoves Buttercup forward, making her fall to the ground. Buttercup pushes herself up and again begins trying to just touch Blood.
Blood grins and punches Buttercup. While she's stumbling back Blood begins going all-out, punching Buttercup constantly, knocking her backward with each hit. She knees her in the stomach, causing her to double over gasping for air. Blood uppercuts her, knocking Buttercup off her feet. While she is partially airborne, Blood grabs Buttercup's leg and throws her back at the other four girls. Buttercup shakily stands up, shaking a little as her initial fear of suffering another beating via Blood returns forcefully. Blood, still grinning, crosses her arms and gives Buttercup a venomous glare.
"So you still think you can beat us? That was nothing, together me and Blitz can easily kill all five of you. So c'mon and let's get this slaughter started!" Blood powers up and flies at them, making the girls scatter to avoid her charge. Blood turns and fires twin beams of maroon energy at the nearest girls, who end up being Bubbles and Bomb. The two dodge quickly and both fire back at Blood. Blood jumps and fires back at them with her eyebeams. Buttercup tackles her out of the air, knocking her aim off and driving her to the ground. She begins punching at Blood mercilessly, while Blood just puts her arms up in front of her face and tries to get away. She powers up and blasts Buttercup with her eyebeams knocking her off.
Blossom and Battle turn to Blitz, who is just watching with amusement. Blossom nudges Battle and together the two fly at Blitz, who grins and just watches them approach. When Blossom attempts to throw a punch at Blitz, Blitz suddenly moves with lightning speed, striking Blossom out of the air with a burst of black lightning. She backflips over Battle, who tries to fire a cutting burst of wind at her, and kicks her in the face. She grabs her hair as she's falling and throws her at Blossom, who had been flying to attack Blitz again. Blitz grins and turns to them, black lightning crackling around her.
"This should be quick and very painful for you, promise me you'll scream a lot," Blitz fires out a black ball crackling with lightning, causing Blossom and Battle to scatter to avoid it. They both begin firing their eyebeams at Blitz, testing their luck at a long-range fight. Blitz weaves in and out of the beams, firing back with her own. The three fly around each other in a dance of death through the air, blasting away with their eyebeams.
Blood jumps, lunges, and rolls away from Buttercup, Bomb, and Bubbles continued assault. She manages to get close enough to punch Bubbles. She grabs her and jerks her into the path of Bomb's explosive attack. Bomb shrieks and jerks the attack out of its course. Blood grins and shoves Bubbles forward, blasting her with a maroon energy beam. She then puts her hands up and catches Buttercup's fist as she comes flying from the air at Blood. Buttercup growls and struggles to overpower Blood. She yelps when Blood jerks her forward and knees her in the stomach again.
Bubbles gets up and tackles Blood, making her let go of Buttercup. Bubbles draws back and begins punching Blood continuously. Blood punches Bubbles off and is blasted by several explosive blasts from Bomb. She regains her balance in time to have Buttercup's knee smash into her face. Blood doubles over holding her face and mumbling curses into her hands. When she uncovers her face she gasps for air as Buttercup punches her in the stomach. While she's preoccupied the other two join and soon Blood is on the bad side of a three way beating.
Blitz jumps away from Blossom's Shinespark attack and fires back with bursts of black lightning. Battle fires razor wind bursts at her, which causes Blitz to start moving again. She skids to a stop, hearing Blood's yelps and screams, and quickly turns to her sister. Her eyes bulge, then narrow as more black lightning crackles around her; she then lets off a massive discharge of black lightning, big enough to hit Blossom and Battle and send them crashing into the wall. Blitz grabs Bomb and Bubbles, smashing their heads together and throwing them away from Blood. Buttercup backs away from Blood, then moves toward Blitz with a punch. Blitz releases a discharge of black lightning, sending Buttercup flying back. She turns to Blood, worriedly, and helps her up.
"A-Are you okay Blood?" asks Blitz. Blood wipes her face off and stares at the stains on her hand. She growls and glares at the five heroines, who have now regrouped.
"Yeah peachy," Blood growls before flying at them and tackling Buttercup. Her eyes widen as a sadistic grin appears on her face. She then grabs Buttercup's throat and a maroon light surrounds the two. Buttercup grabs Blood's wrist, but her eyes widen when some unnatural cold rushes through her. It feels like all of the warmth in her is just being sucked away, leaving her cold and tired. Her eyelids become heavy, her breathing slowing down. Then when she begins to close her eyes a bright light flashes and she is jerked out of her drowning feeling. She sits up shakily and looks up a Blossom, who is kneeling over her.
"B-Buttercup are you okay?" she asks. Buttercup nods and clings onto Blossom as she shakily pulls herself to her feet. The weak, lifeless feeling slowly leaves her but she still feels a little shaky. She lets go of Blossom and regains her balance. She looks back at Blossom's worried expression and smiles, which makes Blossom smile back. A burst of black lightning slams into the two of them, ramming them into the wall. Blitz blasts Bubbles away from her with a small discharge, making her skid back several feet. Bomb and Battle are using their infamous teamwork to try to combat Blood…but it seems as if Blood has become several times more powerful.
"Give up! You can't stop us!" Blood grabs Bomb and Battle by their throats and holds tightly while that psychotic, sadistic look reappears in her eyes. The maroon light surrounds the three of them and Bomb and Battle begin jerking around. Blossom and Buttercup both fire their Starburst Beams at Blood, managing to knock her off the two. Battle and Bomb lie on the ground twitching and jerking around. This stops after a few minutes, and they manage to get back up.
While this is happening Blossom and Buttercup are locked in a massive struggle against Blood. It's obvious now that Blood has definitely become much stronger, probably due to the attack she'd used on Buttercup, Battle, and Bomb. Blossom freezes Blood to the ground with her Ice Breath, allowing herself and Buttercup a free assault on her. While they are attacking Blood, who can only guard her face to protect herself, Bomb and Battle join in, adding more to Blood's beating.
Bubbles dodges and zips around wave after wave of black lightning from Blitz. When Blitz notices Blood's situation, Bubbles quickly attacks her, drawing her attention away from Blood. The two fly through the air punching and kicking at each other. Blitz fires a bolt of black lightning at Bubbles, who dodges and uses a Sonic Clap to render Blitz immobile for a few moments. In those moments Bubbles manages to get a few good hits in on Blitz. She powers up and thrusts her hands out in front of Blitz's chest.
"Burst Flash!" An endless barrage of tiny energy balls fire from Bubbles hands, driving Blitz back slowly and causing her to growl in pain. Blitz releases a discharge, knocking Bubbles out of the air. She then fires a massive blast of black lightning at the girls attacking Blood, giving Blood enough time to free herself. Blitz turns back and is drilled in the face by a powerful punch from Bubbles. She turns back and snarls then begins a merciless assault against Bubbles. Bubbles struggles to find some way to fight back, but she is too busy protecting her face from Blitz's enraged assault to fight back.
Blood continues her war against the other four girls, who struggle to beat her despite having greater numbers. Blood charges and lunges at Buttercup. Before she can Bomb tackles her from behind and gets her into an arm lock. Blood stands up and begin jerking around, trying to toss Bomb off. Bomb is literally dangling above the ground thanks to Blood's superior height. She holds on tighter and clenches her eyes shut.
"Keep fighting, I'm not letting g-go!" She cries out in pain as Blood slams her against the wall. She keeps this up continuously but Bomb valiantly hangs on. Blood's eyes widen and she begins trembling as a tingly feeling begins running through her body.
"Let me go! Let me go now! No I don't wanna die! Let me go!" She thrashes around, slams Bomb against the wall, fires off energy balls and her eyebeams randomly, anything to get Bomb off her. The tingling feeling has become very powerful, making Blood continue to freak out more and more. She slams Bomb against the ground as her trashing begins to tire her out.
"Blood…g-g-gonna go…boom," Bomb weakly manages to stutter out through her immense pain. She begins focusing, but at that moment a maroon light surrounds them. Bomb's eyes widen and she jerks free from Blood. The energy she'd forced into Blood to make her explode comes back and goes off inside Bomb, knocking the wind out of her, giving her indigestion, and making her heart stop for a brief moment. Bomb coughs and sucks air back into her lungs desperately as Blood rises. There are tears in Blood's eyes, which she violently wipes away. She kicks Bomb in the side, making her roll across the ground.
"You…I'll make you…I'll make you pay…" Blood walks through the cutting wind Battle fires at her and grabs Bomb's hair. She picks her up and begins slamming her face against the wall. She throws her across the room and flies at her, even with Battle flying after her and firing attack after attack at her. While this is happening Blossom and Buttercup have rushed to Bubbles aid…but the three are having about as much trouble with Blitz as they were with Blood…
ElsewhereBelial hiccups and shakes her head, trying to get the stinging tears out of her eyes. Even after nearly an hour since her sisters had left, she still can't stop crying, wishing they'd come back and help her. But at the same time, Belial can't deny the fact that she deserved what she got. But now…she suffered enough for what she did right? She didn't deserve this forever, she paid for her crimes…but she is going to have to keep paying for them forever.
"This isn't fair…I just want my daddy…I wanna go home…" She begins crying again, even after crying so much lately she still hates herself for it. She gulps and jerks up straight when the door creaks open. She fearfully glances at the door, gulping when she sees it's Blaze standing there. Blaze looks very nervous for some reason, which Belial happens to notice. Blaze shuts the door and leans against it, staring at the ground. Belial shakes her head again, trying to get rid of the tears. Blaze gulps and glances at Belial, then looks away.
"…H-H-Hi B-Belial…" she mumbles out. Belial gives her a confused look if anything Belial should be the nervous one, as helpless as she is right now. Blaze gulps again and sits down next to Belial, making Belial jerk away from her. Blaze jumps and glances at Belial, then looks away again. "Um…h-h-how're you d-d-doing?" Belial is confused, but quickly becomes angry and glares at her.
"How do you think I'm doing? I'm living in my own personal Hell!" Blaze looks down, becoming confused.
"…B-but don't you like being tickled?" she asks. Belial trembles and clenches her eyes shut while feeling herself about to cry again.
"Of course not! It makes me feel weak, powerless, and inferior! I can't stand not being in control…and I lose my p-powers…I can't stand it…I'd rather die and burn in the lake of fire then stay here and go through this forever! How could anyone possibly like this!" Blaze's eyes water as she stares at the ground.
"…I like it…I…I wish I was in your place right now…" Belial looks at her like Blaze has just grown six more heads and ten horns. Blaze blushes and looks away from her, glancing back every now and then, but always looking away as soon as she does.
"…Why are you here? Why don't you just tickle me and leave so I can go back to wishing I wasn't here…" says Belial venomously. Blaze gulps and continues to look away.
"I…j-just…I…I needed to talk to you…"
"Why? You need to talk with your torture toys to make you feel better about yourself?" Blaze gulps and rubs her eyes, which are filling with tears fast.
"No…I…I really…I…just…I like…I like you…" Belial looks at her confused, which Blaze misinterprets as disgust and begins freaking out. "I mean…I like you like you…but I know it's really gross, because we're cousins and we're both girls, but I can't help it and I really really just wanted to be here and talk to you but I know you're probably grossed out and I'm sorry but I just had to tell you and I can't hide it anymore and I'm really sorry, please don't hate me!" Belial carefully goes through what Blaze had just said at lightning speed, managing to pick out the important parts.
"…You like me? I thought you hated me…everyone hates me…" she says plainly, like she's just stating a scientific fact. Blaze blushes and fumbles around with her hands nervously.
"I don't hate you…I think you're really pretty…and you're a lot of fun, even though we were fighting each other, I thought it was fun…I'm sorry I helped them bring you here…I thought you'd…I thought you were like me…and you'd like being stuck here…" Belial snorts and looks away, glaring at the opposite wall. She hears something jingle, but doesn't give it a second thought until her arms fall and land on her lap. She stares at her hands and glances at Blaze, who is blushing as she also undoes the cuffs on Belial's ankles. Belial jerks her legs up to her chest and wraps her arms around them. Blaze sits on the other end of the chair, blushing and staring at the ground nervously.
"…So…why are you here? Shouldn't you be helping your sisters fight the Powerpuff Girls and my sisters?" Blaze looks at her blankly, confused out of her mind now.
"Wh…What are you talking about? No one is here…" she asks confused. Belial becomes confused now, glancing around the room for her shoes and socks.
"Didn't they tell you? There hasn't been an announcement or anything?" Blaze shakes her head, which confuses Belial more, "but…they're here to kill Leviathan, surely he'd have everyone ready to kill them first…" Blaze's eyes widen.
"Kill Daddy? Is that even possible?" Belial shrugs and stares at Blaze.
"I think it is…but if they want to try…I have to help them…maybe I can make up for being a royal bitch my whole life." Blaze gulps and scoots a tiny bit closer to Belial.
"You shouldn't say stuff like that…" Belial snorts and looks away, but finds her gaze drifting back to Blaze, who still seems to think the ground is the most interesting thing ever.
"Why not? It's true…all over something so stupid like being tickled I killed my relationship with my sisters," Blaze looks up and glances at Belial, this time not quickly averting her gaze.
"…But…" Belial feels her powers coming back enough and quickly flies and gathers her footwear, putting them on quickly and tying her shoes extra tight. "Belial…you can't fight them…we all got st…oh yeah!" She fumbles around and finds the black marble she'd taken from Leviathan and holds it out. "Hold this and it'll make you a bunch stronger!" Belial gives her a funny look, but carefully takes the marble from her. When she can think next she is on the ground with Blaze leaning over her nervously.
"B-Belial? Are you okay?" Blaze asks nervously. She sits up and looks down at her hands.
"Yeah…I'm great! Now I have to go, if you show up don't think I won't have a little fun with you for getting in my way," Belial winks at Blaze with a little grin. Blaze blushes deep crimson and looks away. Belial climbs to her feet and holds out her hand. Blaze stares at it, then looks up and stares at Belial's once more confident expression. "So you coming with me or not?" Blaze blushes again and nervously takes Belial's hand.
The Black SanctuaryBlossom, Bubbles, Buttercup, Battle, and Bomb are all hurting badly from this fight. Blitz is in almost perfect condition, while Blood could stand to be a little better. Bomb and Battle are busy trying to take down Blood while the puffs are working on Blitz. Bomb and Battle have gotten into their usual groove and have Blood on the ropes trying to keep up with them. She growls and jerks around firing beams of maroon energy at them, which the two dodge and duck away from firing back at her with as much force as they can. Blood manages to get almost close enough to grab Bomb; just then a Starburst Beam slams into Blood knocking her away from Bomb. At that moment, Bubbles and Blossom join Bomb and Battle, and again the four of them are once more knocking Blood around mercilessly.
Blitz slaps Buttercup away and growls, blasting the four with black lightning. She lifts her hands above her and a massive black energy ball crackling with lightning appears and begins growing. It reaches high into the darkness above them, growing without end.
"Th-That can't be good…" says Buttercup as the five back as far away as possible, ending up against the west wall. Blood is standing on the ground behind Blitz, laughing at the fear on the heroines' faces as Blitz continues to gather more power. There is an explosion as the doors blast open. A flash of violet goes by in front of Blitz. Blitz's eyes bulge, causing her to double over holding her stomach giggling like crazy. The ball begins falling out of the sky. Blitz's eyes widen, and she spins around managing to make the ball go off in the air. The explosion sends her crashing into the ground with some moderate damage. She gets up and looks around, trying to find her.
"Where are you! How did you get free!" She spins around and glares at Belial, who is glaring back with as much venom. Blitz charges at Belial and instantly the two are locked in a fierce struggle. Blitz clearly shows she is the stronger of the two, but Belial manages to keep up.
"Hey! Get rid of Blood while I keep her busy!" The other five stare at Belial dumbly. What they don't realize is that Belial wasn't talking to them. They hear a sound and turn to see Blood dodging waves of fire being shot by Blaze, who looks more scared than anything.
"What's going on?" asks Bubbles.
"Heck if I know, but let's just do what she said and get rid of Blood!" The five move out to join Blaze in taking out Blood. Belial crashes into Blaze knocking them both into the wall. The seven gather together, standing across from Blood and Blitz, who are boiling.
"Dammit! What are you doing Blaze? Help us kill them you little faggot!" Blaze gulps and looks away. Belial grins and puts her arm around Blaze's shoulders, tugging her closer and making Blaze blush bright red.
"She decided to help us kill you, so I hope you don't mind Cuz." Blood growls and Blitz glares at Blaze, who blushes and looks away. At that moment all of the lights go out. The nine girls all jump at the sudden action. Music begins playing, a song which is all too eerily familiar to Belial. Candles begin lighting up with blue fire around the hall, on both sides heading to the pentagram in the center. Flames light up all around it and a blood red light shoots up from the pentagram. Falling from the infinite darkness above them is a figure, who calmly floats down within the red light. His feet touch the ground, and the light fades, the music stops.
Beelzebub is now standing in the center of the sanctuary, the eyeholes on his mask burning like two blue flames.