Due to the little voices in my head telling me to write another story, I'm going to go on and kill this one. That's right, you read right! This is the last chapter. Enjoy it to the last.
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A Psychologist's Day And Life
Chapter Eighteen: The End…Seriously, We're Done
Thunder crackled through the sky and the lighting shook the group below. Everything was blown away and all things were knocked back. It looked like a missile attack hit the whole place. Of course, I didn't know that because Amor and I were engulfed in a blinding light. Now in the anime, Rosette was in immediate pain and most of her clothes were stripped off. I expected that the same thing would happen to the both of us when this happened. As we were basked in the light, I could hear Rosette scream our names. It was both sweet and weird at the same time. She cared? Who knew!
I believed that we were closing our eyes when this happened and as the light began to fade, I knew not what was going to happen. As I opened my eyes, I looked around. First my clothes: they weren't torn. Second, my brother. He still had his eyes closed and I tapped him on his shoulder. Third, our surroundings. On the left side, the group had their eyes budged, the girls having a look of sheer fear. On the right side…well, how about an enraged devil who was gnashing his teeth?
We both realized that nothing happened. Nothing. Absolutely nothing!
Amor turned to me. "Well, that was a rip-off."
"HOW COULD YOU TWO BE ALIVE!" We both turned to Aion, who seemed to burst a vein. Jeez, what was his problem?
"What do you mean?" I asked him.
"It's impossible! You two shouldn't be standing after that? YET YOU STAND! HOW!"
"Like this," Amor said and just stood there. At least the blast didn't effect his sense of humor. As he was doing this, it looked like Aion wanted to kill us both.
"Why?" I asked him, "why are you doing this?"
"Why?" Aion asked, "I thought I explained it to you all already. I have no need for a fake world. With the Head of Pandemonium turning into the Sphere of Atonement, it would become a gateway from this world to the next once it was destroyed. It would have destroyed the attacker instantly. Once destroyed, the gateway would appear. Yet you two defied this somehow. You managed to survive. It must be trick, it must be! The question is how did you do it?"
That was his plan? Man, his taking-over-the-world-plan was way smoother than this.
I said to him, "I can probably tell you how you failed."
"Enlighten me, human."
"Well, we are not of this world. Therefore, it can be said that we are made up of completely different materials of existence than all of you. Now if Rosette succeeded to destroy the sphere, that would be a different story. But she didn't."
Silence soon engulfed us all. Aion looked like he calmed down and returned to his cool state. He then proceeded to laugh for a very long while.
Amor made a gesture that he'd been drinking too much. After his long laugh, he spoke again.
"I suppose that you are right. Even though my plans failed and I am left with nothing. If I am destined to die, so be it. But I will take every last one of you with me!" He transformed into his true form. I had to admit, he looked sick in that outfit of his. He headed towards us but we managed to dodge. Whew, that was close.
Satella and Chrono looked tried from the last battle. They proceeded to move the other two bodies away from the battlefield. From here it was me, Amor and Rosette who was shooting frantically.
Amor yelled while dodging, Ah! We're gonna die!"
"No, we are not! What to do, what to do?"
Aion was still in his killing spree. "Gah! Hold still so I can kill you!" He grabbed Amor's arm however he was able to shake him off.
"I'm still using this. If you don't mind…"
As Amor and Rosette fought Aion (which was looking pretty grim on our part, by the way) a thought occurred to me. I thought that this thought was a little rushed but at our present situation, you're bound to think quickly.
As I thought, Aion headed towards me. "This time you're mine!"
Rosette screamed and Amor raced to intercept. However as he was about to hit me, he stopped.
"What…what is this?" He tried to move…and move…but he couldn't. I smiled because I knew what was going on.
"Uh…" Amor walked towards me. "Bert…what the hell?"
"I'll explain. Since Aion claimed that the blast should have killed us, this proves that we are that we are composed of different matter in this world. A classic case of matter and anti-matter. Everything around us being matter and us being anti-matter. A collision of the two would nullify the intended result. For example, if someone shot us with a bullet here, we wouldn't get killed. If we were thrown in fire, we could swim. The only reason why we can feel pain is because we make it real in our minds. Therefore we can manipulate anything here. So…"
I waved my hand and imagined that Aion was moving around in the air. He did so and cursing me with 1920's slang.
"Shut up!" I said to him impatiently. I imagined that he was mute. He was then and there. I turned to Amor.
"So in short, my brother, we can do whatever we want here." Amor thought about what I said. Now, we don't go into discussions because I use big words and smart stuff like that. But I think he understood because he smiled. Just then, a huge part of pavement was lifted up and landed on top of the Sinner.
"Sweet!" Rosette was staring at us blankly and was probably wondering what the hell was going on. I wanted to finish this quick but sweet so I asked Amor how to do this.
"Since we have god-like powers, how do you suppose that we do this thing?"
"I don't know, you finish him off."
"Well…okay, if you insist…"
Okay, I'm going to admit that I was a Tales fan. If you don't know what a tales fan is, I'll explain. They are the Tales games that have been made by Namco that's been gaining in popularity. Tales of the Abyss, Tales of Symphonia, stuff like that. So in order to finish off Aion once and for all and at the same time incorporate my enthusiastic attitude for the series, I thought I finish him off with a spell. Mind you this was totally dorky but I didn't care. Nobody should care about what others think, right?
So I mumbled a spell. "O Lightless tempest from distant regions, stretch out thy tenebrous arms and lead my enemies to their eternal slumber..."
Suddenly there was an ominous shaking and black little lighting was sticking out from the ground. Then a black ball appeared and the turned into what seemed to be a black hole. My intended result, mind you. As Aion glared at us fiercely, I smiled at him.
"Well, this is how it ends. It's been fun."
"Say hi to Satan for me," Amor added.
Aion was sucked into the black hole and he left with a muffled scream. The hole imploded upon itself shortly after. We looked at each other and I suppose that we were thinking about the same thing. We have just beaten a devil. All of the Sinners were gone. That's it, no more. Funny, we felt like celebrating but we didn't show it. We slowly walked back to Rosette who looked at us with sheer fear.
"Oh, god." I thought to myself. We saw Chrono and Satella running off from the distance with a group of people. I knew that our time alone was going to be short so I asked Rosette the one question that was on my mind. I looked at her.
"What?" She asked quickly. Damn, she was edgy.
"What? Don't you give me that 'what'. What gave you the idea of running into something you knew that was dangerous and deadly?"
"… … …"
"Did it just called out to you? 'Oh, hit me! You'll save the whole world if you destroy me' You might as well wear a sign, 'dead woman walking!' What in the hell were you thinking?" I didn't realize this but I sounded pissed. To me, I was asking questions however to the people who were receiving the end of this rant…that's a different story.
Amor put his hand on my shoulder, "Bert. Stop man."
"Amor, I'm talking here so if you don't mind…"
"Shut up…" It was Rosette who had said this.
"Excuse me? I'm sorry, what did you just say?"
"I said shut up," in a cracked up way. "I wasn't thinking, okay?"
"Hell yeah you weren't thinking! What kind of a stupid idiot knows something that's dangerous and runs into it?"
"An idiot that want to stop something horrible from happening. An idiot who cared about the safety of others."
"You mean to tell me that the whole world would be saved if you sacrificed yourself for the means of others? You don't know how wrong you are!"
"You don't know how I feel!"
"You could have sacrificed yourself for the protection of others and at the same time destroy your friends' lives in the process. You don't realize how fortunate you are because you are the most important thing in some people's lives. You are the inspiration, you are the glue that binds everyone together. Your death would create havoc and confusion to the ones that actually love you. They wouldn't know what to do."
"I…"
"No, you will listen! You will stand there and listen. Get it through your thick ego of yours. YOUR LIFE.. NO LIFE IS FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF DYING!"
At this point Satella and Chrono were just close enough to heard the end of my rant. Amor frown…then smiled…then frown again. And Rosette? Well…her eyes were covered, that was all. Then she made a mad dash away from the group and headed towards somewhere. I, obviously, ran after her.
"The Order's here," Chrono mumbled. "Remington is here also. He's waiting for us outside of the area."
"Bert!" Amor called out to me, "what do we do now?"
"Go with them! Don't worry about me! I'll handle this situation." I was following her as she was still running. I don't know where she was running to or why. She ran pretty fast but then again I can run as well. We ran up some steps and made our way to what seemed like an edge of a cliff. There she collapsed and breathed heavily. Her breathing was cracked as if she wanted to cry. Knowing that my rant might have upset her, I went to her and prepared myself for what she had to say.
"No life is for the sole purpose of dying?" she asked me. "What kind of sick logic are you thinking?"
"Is it not the truth?" I asked her.
"Just leave me alone…"
"I can't."
"Why?"
"Because I know what you're going to do. You're going to go somewhere far away from your friends…your family and die all alone. You said one time you wanted to die with dignity. Now you're planning to reject it? Where is the logic in that?"
She got up and made her way to a cliff wall.
I asked her, "What do you want?"
"What do you mean, 'what do I want?'"
"Forget about what Chrono wants, what your brothers wants, what your peers, your friends, want. What do you want?"
Her quiet whimper became a cry. "I want to rest. No more searching, no more sacrificing. No more. I just want to lay on the ground and die. But you and everyone else knows that's going to happen soon, right?"
"Hmmm…"
"But…" she turned quickly away. "I don't want to rest! Not Yet. There's still so much to do! I'm just so scared. I'm scared. I don't want to die. I just want to live a little longer. Is that so wrong?"
"Yes…" a voice replied. We both turned around to see Amor standing there.
"You…" she said in a pissed off tone. "Why do you keep harassing me with your stupid…?"
"Harassing you?" Amor said as he cut her off. "I may annoy, piss off, make angry, but harass? Never. It's also the answer to your question."
"What do you mean?" I asked Amor. He smiled.
"You want to rest, have your life end. At the same time you want to live and fulfill all the things you either didn't do or wanted to do better. When you say you want to rest and at the same time say that you want to live then you would be contradicting yourself. They are two things you cannot have existing at the same time. Rest, live, rest, live, rest, live, which one is it?"
"This doesn't even concern you! You two have made my life so complicated. Why can't you just…"
"…leave you alone?" I asked her. "Face it, you need help. Everybody has been lending their support and help and even though you say that you're are fine about this whole thing, you are far from it. You've been handling this situation all by yourself. You knew that there was help but you reject it. You knew that you were way over your head but still you go on."
"No…"
"You had Chrono. You had the Order. All the searching, all the time, the four years spent. You didn't care about the Order. You didn't care about the world. You don't care about anyone else. You cared only for your brother."
"No…"
"Why is he so special? Why would you risk your life for him? His charm? His good looks?"
"No…."
"If he had went with the Order, he would have been safe. But no, you had to reject to this idea. Why? Because you didn't want to be alone. That's why you are risking your life for him. He's the most important thing in your life, isn't he. He is above everything else. You don't want to be lonely. He is the only family that you have."
"Joshua was there when I was alone. He was the only one who understand how I felt. This is the reason. I want that same person back. Don't you understand?"
"But that is not a reason for what you have done," Amor said calmly. "It is merely a motive; not a justification." He can be philosophical at times. At times…
"A motive? A motive? What are you talking about?"
"This doesn't justify in what you have done all these four years. The real reason why you wanted Joshua back because he completed you. Without him, you wouldn't know what to do. He gave you that comfortable feeling that you so longed. He gave you a sense of responsibility as well as the courage to do things other people dreamed of doing. He gave you…purpose. Purpose, being the epitome of all human desires. If we have lost purpose, then we are non-existent in this world. A nobody."
"Aion took away Joshua, as well as your purpose." I said this as we both approached her. "You would do anything to get him back. Even if it meant risking your life. Even if it meant as to go so low as to beg for your brother back. Now that I say this, you wanted your purpose, not your brother. You selfish…"
"No!" Rosette screamed. We were both taken aback. She then took out her gun and pointed it at us.
"See what I mean," I pointed out to Amor. "She's difficult to handle."
"Grow up," Amor growled.
"You two…" Rosette said with her cracked voice. "You said things that weren't true. I didn't save Joshua for myself. I did it for him! For him! You just don't understand." She dropped her gun. "This whole world doesn't understand…" Rosette started to run over towards the cliff. We both knew what was going to happen.
"Holy crap!" Amor yelled. "Bert, do something!"
Little did he know, I was already working on something. "May the merciless embrace of frost take thee…"
Another tale spell. Seriously I loved those guys. If it wasn't for them, we would have one dead sister on our hands. At that time, Rosette was at the ledge. A series of blue and white circles appeared under her. Let's just say that her whole body was incased in ice as fast as you can say 'apostle'.
"Absolute…" Amor mumbled. "You casted absolute?"
"Well it stopped her, didn't it?"
"You're dumb." I smiled and we both walked towards her. The good news was that Rosette wasn't harmed. The bad news? Her eyes were covered again. While Amor went over to get help (and maybe some ice picks and flamethrowers) I was left with Rosette again.
"You are a handful to deal with. No wonder Sister Kate and the others have a hard time handling your antics…I mean what were your thinking? I know that your emotionally upset with us. Anger outbursts and physical attacks fine but suicide?" I stopped because what stopped me was soft sobbing. She was crying. Oh god.
"I'm sorry," Rosette said to me. "I…I just couldn't take all the stuff you guys said to me. That was hurtful. It hurts when someone tells you that you're not good enough. I tried my very best. But my best failed."
Tried her best… I thought about what she said. Then I realized how much of a jerk I was. I expected so much from her. I was blind sighted by my own ambitions and expectations for a girl who was a year younger from me.
"Rosette," I said as I turned to her. "I am the one who should be sorry. It is because what I said that made you act this way." Honest to god, what I am about to tell you is the truth. I wanted to cry. I was sick with myself for putting her in this state of mind.
"Please forgive me. My foolish behavior. It is beneath me. I suppose you hate me now."
The sobs stopped. Her eyes appeared in a waterery eyed state. She smiled. "That's all I wanted to hear," she whispered.
Well we had one hell of a time getting her out of that ice. After that, we all retired to Satella's villa. Joshua and Fiore were being kept at the San Francisco branch of the Order for further observation. Remington said that they won't be sure what their futures maybe until they had regained consciousness. By that time, however, we would be long gone.
Two days after the battle, Remington pulled us out privately.
"You boys did well," he said with a smile. "Rosette seems more happier now. Now that everything is normal, we are rebuilding some parts of the city. We can safely say that all demon activity have ceased…for now."
"That's good to know," I said.
"What's going to happen now?" Amor asked.
"Well it seems that you two have outlived your usefulness. Here." He gave us both little golden pocket watches. "I've created these watches to return you to your world at the same appointed time you have left. All the time in your world will be restored to normal. As if nothing ever happened." We both looked at each other.
I cleared my throat. "What's going to happen to Rosette?" Remington looked at me with a serious look.
"I don't know," he said calmly. "This I do know. She's going to lose her life…someday…but not today." As he walked off, we both looked at each other.
"What are you thinking?" Amor asked me.
"Well, we have god-like powers, right? So…"
Amor smiled. "You want to give her more time, right?"
"Well…"
"I thought you hated her."
"Well, I did. But now, I don't."
Amor walked away. "Bert has a girlfriend, Bert has a girlfriend."
I ran after him. "She a girl and a friend, but not my girlfriend!" I thought about giving Rosette more time. I willed it. I didn't know if it worked or not but I hoped it worked. I also thought about giving Joshua and Fiore their memories and the memory of what had transpired while they were in Aion's control. Give them something to think about. We stayed for two more days in which Remington notified the rest of our group that we had the ability to leave. Near the evening of the third day, Azmaria called us out to the living room. When we arrived, the whole gang was there.
"Guys…" I said uneasy.
"We know that you guys have to leave," Chrono said. "Why didn't you tell us?"
"We couldn't find the words," Amor gave the excuse.
"Are you going now?" Azmaria asked. We looked at each other and we nodded.
"I thought so," Satella said with a smile. She went towards Amor and…I don't know how to say this but…planted those big lips of her on his. That must have been Amor's first kiss and after a while he blushed accordingly.
"Yes Amor," I mumbled.
"Shut up," he growled. We all gave a laugh and we all knew it was time. Rosette came to the both of us.
"Thank you…for everything…you know."
"Yeah, we know," I said to her. "Your welcome." She peeked us both on the cheeks. The girls had tears in their eyes and the men looked down. We both pushed the button on the pocket watch at the same time.
When I awoke, I opened my eyes. I looked around. My living room, my chair, my computer. Welcome to the future. At that time, Amor came out in the living room. I looked at him and he looked at me.
Amor then mumbled, "Bert, go to bed."
"In a minute," I said to him. As he went back to the bedroom, I opened Microsoft Word and began to type:
"Boring…boring…boring and dull. Yup, that pretty much summarizes my life..."
That's it boys and girls. Another story done. I'm planning to work on a sequel on this. Maybe I won't. This story to some of you people may be screwed up big or small however…Well…I like to thank Misogirl for the constant reviews. I hope that the rest of you enjoyed this story. Until then, later.