Chapter-23 Where There's Light, The Darkness Follows
YAY! More reviews! . Thanx guyz! I'm so pissed, I was going 2 update this sooner, but something happened and it deleted the WHOLE CHAPTER! Damn it! :( Plus school's already started; which means I won't be able 2 update 4 u during the day as often as I did this summer! WAHHH! But anywho, like I said, the sequel to 'Gizmo's Birthday' has been confirmed, and will be up in about a week or two! . BUT! If there are any requests for things/ couplings you'd like to see in it, please let me know in your reviews. And if they're not too hard to work with, I'll use them! Enjoy!... PS- requested by Artemis85, there will be a SURPRISE DEATH in this chappie! Now, not only did I kill off said person because it was a doable request; I also did it because it fits in with the final chappie of this fic, read and enjoy! REVIEW! .
It was finally daybreak, but the two now much larger groups, were taking total advantage of the situation to catch up on some much needed rest.
And while all of them had ideas of how to kill Ammoraye when they got out, they were still ignorant to the fact that Hirra had done it for them much earlier last night.
In Cyborg and Jinx's group, everyone was still sound asleep, all but Gizmo, and Jinx; who were wide awake just sitting and talking.
"Jinx, you think we'll get out okay?" Gizmo asked in a surprisingly tearful tone.
Jinx then leaned over and kissed his forehead.
"I'm sure of it. We've gotten this far, and after all, Ammoraye can't keep us here forever." Jinx replied with a sigh as she propped her pale arms up behind her head.
However, despite her efforts to bring hope to her small friend, there was no avail, as Gizmo still remained silent and ever still.
"Well…yeah, I guess you're right. B-but…remember, Ammoraye has those snottin' supernatural powers n' stuff! S-so she can keep us here as long as she wants!" Gizmo screamed, choking back tears on his last words.
Jinx gave him a worried look.
Even she could see it in his tired, glassy black eyes; he'd had it. They'd been out here for almost six days, and it was just too much for a small child to take.
"Well, we'll do whatever we can, and whatever it takes Gizmo. I promise." Jinx replied encouragingly before she rolled back over to continue her fitful sleep.
Mere moments later, Gizmo began to drift off into his own little dream world, or, in this case, nightmare world…
Flashback…(I know! I luv annoying u guyz with these! Tee-Hee!)…..
The year was 1999, dead of winter to the middle Eastern part of the planet Pahora.
Yet another war with a branch kingdom had been sparked and things were just getting worse and worse for the head kingdom of Tezna, Alaya.
Inside the lavish palace, the youngest son of the king and queen of Pahora, Cheeo (Gizmo) stood outside his mother Meredyth's bedroom.
(AN- for those of you who've read other fics of mine with Gizmo's parents in them, and their names were Kris and Catrinna there, I'd like to point out that those were their NEW names, their former names, which I'm using again, were Meredyth and Gadget. K? .)
Back 2 flashback…..
Queen Meredyth was normally a very strong and strong willed woman, but a terrible fever had been going around, and she now had it.
Just recently, another horrible war had just begun; this time, between Pahora and one of its lower kingdoms, Tsuperatte.
The fever that had been going around was brought here by Tsuperatte as well, and now king Gadget was even more determined than ever to win this war.
"Doctor, how is my wife?" Gadget asked as the fat, middle aged male doctor put his things into his medical bag and got up to leave.
"Your majesty, I'm sorry to inform you, that queen Meredyth's prognosis is even worse than I first expected." The doctor began as Gadget looked and listened intently.
"Go on!" Gadget cried out furiously as the startled doctor continued.
"Alright then; well, queen Meredyth has contracted the fever, yes. But, along with it, something else. Tsuperatte has many bio-threats, but even some they didn't mean to bring here. You do recall that the deathly fever began in Tsuperatte at random, right?" The doctor asked again with a long pause as Gadget nodded again.
Meanwhile, outside the half opened door, little Cheeo listened in on their conversation, eager to finally find out what was going to happen to his beloved mother.
Just then, his small head shot back upright as he heard the doctor clear his throat and continue to speak.
"Well my liege, queen Meredyth not only contracted the fever, but while fighting in Tsuperatte, with all the dead bodies jus t lying around, and her without a mask on, it was just a conspiracy waiting to happen. I'm sorry." The doctor finished as king Gadget's shocked body slumped limply down into a nearby chair.
As the doctor exited, he caught sight of a very teary Cheeo sitting on the floor by one of the large doors.
"Daddy! What's going to happen to her?" Little Cheeo cried out as he ran into the room and latched himself tightly onto his tall father's left pants leg.
Gadget's cold blue eyes then wandered down to the ground where he found his youngest son crying on his black satin robes.
As Gadget reached down to pick him up, two more older children dashed into the room.
The eldest by far was a boy with unruly light brown hair, much like Cheeo's. His name was Konarii. He was wearing robes much like the ones his father had, but they were turquoise and white with peaceful blue chiffon designs adorning them.
And the second person to come in was their daughter, Evelyn. Evelyn was the middle child and had long auburn hair tied back into two small buns, but with two small braids cascading down each side of her head. She didn't share the same eye color with either of her parents; she had glistening emerald eyes and wore a precise pair of red framed oval glasses. And through her pale purplish pink skirts it was rather easy to see she was wearing a heavy hoopskirt.
As Gadget placed Cheeo in his lap, he felt him cling tighter to the top half of his robes and cry even harder.
Evelyn and Konarii looked on with even more worry in their eyes.
"F-father, i-is she really that bad?" Evelyn asked as he nodded, and an almost ghost like young woman glided into the chamber.
Her name was Damadel. I guess you could call her an illegal member of the Agino family, as she wasn't married to or the child of any of them. In fact, she'd been somewhat of a guardian to the Agino family for over one thousand years; and yet she looked not a day older than twenty two.
"My king! A letter has just arrived from the king of Tsuperatte!" Damadel cried out exasperatedly as she reached into the pocket of her emerald dress robes and pulled out an envelope with a golden wax seal.
"Give it here at once!" King Gadget commanded in a valiant tone as the young hybrid woman brought the letter forth to her father/leader.
As Gadget finished reading the letter, his arms dropped to the ground along with the letter.
As Evelyn watched her sorrowful father drop the letter, she picked up her skirts and bent down to pick it up. She too wound up with a shocked and scared face.
"Father! They can't be serious! A full on attack to Schtoi?" Evelyn exclaimed as her father nodded.
On their planet, Schtoi was a technical marvel that ran everything on the face of it's many kingdoms. It's actually located about thirty two feet from the palace of Alaya where Gizmo's family is….
"Now, I'm going to have to leave for awhile, Konarii, you're in charge of the household until I get back. And if anything, ANYTHING goes wrong, I want you to go to Earth, that's the last Godforsaken place they'd search for Pahorans, alright?" Gadget asked as his three children nodded in unison.
As Gadget dawned his war garn, his three children and dying wife watched mournfully, and then he turned his back and left the room in silence.
Standing before Evelyn, whom had her hands on his shoulders, little Cheeo's eyes began to swell up with tears.
Only four weeks after that…Queen Meredyth died, and king Gadget, was never heard from again…..
End Flashback…
By now, Gizmo was shifting about violently in his sleep, while beside him, Jinx was sleeping totally soundly.
Meanwhile, Terra had bumped her head slightly on a large old tree, and had decided to scout ahead for a few minutes, just to see what was up ahead on the trail.
To find her way back, Terra dragged the toe of her left boot into the dirt as she walked.
"Agh, I knew I should've just stayed asleep!" Terra yawned to herself as a sudden, heavy gust of wind blew her frail body slightly off her trail.
"Agh! AHHH! What the hell was that?" Terra asked herself, as the strong wind died down just as quickly as it had started.
As Terra dusted her already filthy uniform off, she looked back, and her eyes went wide with fright and surprise as she found that her perfectly scored trail had worn out of the dirt.
Terra clenched her hands closer to her body as she did a 360 degree turn, just to see what was around her.
But to her relief, there was nothing but the dead forest and slightly shadowed trail. But just when Terra let her guard down, she saw a black, aura-like shadow moving towards her.
It was obvious the entity was female, but her face was in an even deeper shadow than her body, but from the side of her face, Terra immediately recognized her for her evil glaring eyes.
"Mi-mi-mistress Ammoraye? You-you BITCH! I should KILL YOU for getting us in this mess, FUCK!" Terra screamed as she threw a punch towards the spirit, only to have her gloved fist go right through it. (oooh! Terra's a potty mouth! Tee-Hee! .)
Ammoraye's spirit was silent, and still.
Terra then rubbed her hazy blue eyes and backed away. But just as quickly as Ammoraye's stillness settled, she lashed out, and went right through Terra's lithe body.
Terra then let out a cry of pain as Ammoraye's spirit lashed through her over and over again.
Just then, with the final blow, Terra fell to her knees, and blood rained from her mouth and stained her pale lips. Ammoraye looked pleased.
"You see dear, the thing about this game is…That no one gets out alive!" Ammoraye's spirit said as she floated over to the dying girl, and this time, lashed herself right through Terra's heart before finally disappearing.
A few miles away, Beast Boy awoke with an intense stinging feeling in his chest.
"AGH!" He choked as he shot up from his sleeping position on the ground, and looked up into the gleaming sun.
"Terra, where are you?" The green changeling asked himself as a single tear ran down his cheek, and he clutched his heart in pain.
About four hours later in the day…..
Cyborg and Jinx's group had finally woken up and were about to head back out on the trail, when Starfire pointed out that they were missing a member.
"Friends! Terra is missing!" Starfire exclaimed as everyone looked around and recounted the amount of members in the group.
"She's right. C'mon, you know how Terra is, she probably went ahead while we were sleepin'." Cy finished as Gizmo reached up with his good arm and clutched the bottom of Jinx's tattered dress.
"Then, why isn't she back already?" The child asked as everyone exchanged frightened looks.
"Oh come on! This is pointless! I mean, we don't even know when she left! She might've only been gone for ten minutes for all we know. So let's just go, we'll catch up to her soon, alright?" Jinx decided as everyone agreed and followed her.
However, somehow, Cyborg and Beast Boy both sensed that something was wrong.
About a half a mile down the trail, past a bushel of dead, thistly brush, Jinx planted her foot down on the ground, and felt something wet; as the sorceress looked down to examine what she'd just stepped in, she let out a blood curdling shriek of terror as she saw the pool of deep crimson beneath her feet.
As everyone else jumped past the brush, they all began to gain sickened looks, or just broke down and panicked.
Gizmo began to cry; "I thought you said she'd be back!" Gizmo stated through his heavy tears.
"Come on kid, how do you even know it's her?" Cy asked as Starfire picked up a brown glove with a yellow 'T' on the front, it was also covered in blood.
Cyborg then hung his head with a deep sigh.
"Man, I sure hope BB doesn't find out anytime soon." The teen hybrid mused as the four of them stood by Terra's blood and mourned her loss, even Gizmo and Jinx.
A little further down the trail, Wykkyd and Raven's group was taking a good long break. The pain in BB's chest had now gone away but he still couldn't deny her knew something was wrong.
As Mammoth took a seat on the dirt ground beneath the trees, the others in his group soon did the same, all with deep sighs.
No one was in the mood to talk just yet, and they were still mourning the losses of their two friends.
Each member of the group had had a special connection to the two of them, and now that friendship was gone, all because of some crazed woman who felt the need to kill for the child she knew deep down she'd never get back.
"Agh, let's just face it guys, this is totally hopeless." Raven droned as a few other members nodded with yawns and groans.
Just then, very out of character of her, Raven began to giggle a little. Everyone stared at her, totally stunned.
"Raven, why the hell are you laughing? And at a time like this?" BB asked as the gothic girl turned to her teammate.
"Well, I was just…Hey, do you remember that time Cyborg tried to self build an automatic waffle maker?" Raven asked, for one adding optimism to the conversation.
BB then burst out laughing as he revisited the near forgotten memoir.
"Yeah! Hit the deck!" BB exclaimed, making interesting sound effects as he hurled dirt about the group's circular gathering to symbolize all the pancake/ waffle batter that had graced the kitchen the morning.
Everyone else there soon began to smile and travel back into their own happy memories with Cy and Gizmo.
"Yeah, Giz was always like a little brother to us." Mammoth began. "And I gotta admit, the way he acts now, insults n' all he's better and way more open than he ever used to be." The giant teen finished as he traveled back into a memory from three years ago; a tiny brown haired boy with a pair of green goggles atop his head was running from the clutches of a younger Jinx whose hair had been dyed blue.
"AGH! You're gonna pay for that you little brat!" Jinx screamed as she finally cornered him.
Mammoth chuckled to himself.
Out of everyone in the Hive Five, who'd all admittedly grown closer; Jinx and Gizmo had by far grown the closest as people and as family to each other and the team.
As the group began to pay visits to even more memories, Raven looked up to the morning sky.
"For once, She began to herself. –I've done something right that makes everyone happy. Maybe, just maybe, there is hope for us after all." Raven finished with a barely visible smile, cut off when she and the others harkened to a rustling sound coming from a patch of thick brush nearby.
"Show yourselves!" Wykkyd shouted defensively as everyone in the group rose almost as if on cue.
"It's okay! We're not here to-wait…WYKKYD?" A familiar female voice called out from the brush as everyone lowered their guard.
Just then, Cyborg and Jinx's group tumbled out from the brush.
"OH MY GOD!" Everyone cried out in unison when they caught sight of Cyborg and Gizmo, their 'once assumed dead' friends.
A few members of Wykkyd and Raven's group even began to cry a little. Finally, there was a glimmer of hope in this fight.
"Hey little one, what happened to you?" Wykkyd asked somewhat affectionately to his friend as he caught sight of his right arm which was still held up in it's sling.
Gizmo shrugged. "Ah, nothin' I just fell." Was all he could muster for the moment.
"Okay, now all we've gotta do is figure a way out of this mess. So this time, we'll have to try and stay together." Cyborg suggested as BB rushed up to him from the back of the group.
"Cy! Di-did you see Terra anywhere at all?" His green friend asked hopefully as everyone in Cy's group gave each other hurt and questionable looks.
"What? Wha-what's the matter?" BB asked, this time, his voice shook a little.
Cyborg then placed a hand on BB's shoulder, and prepared for the worst to come after he finally confessed.
"Uh, BB, ya see, the thing is; well, we found Terra's blood, and one of her gloves by a bush on the way here. We dunno what happened to her, but, but all we know is that she's dead BB, I'm sorry." Cyborg said as Beast Boy stepped shakily away from his friend.
Heroes and villains, they weren't supposed to cry, they were supposed to be devoted, strong, and strong willed.
And then again, as the journey continued, Beast Boy felt like dying himself. Just so he could be at her side again.
"I never even got to say goodbye." Said the changeling to himself silently as he dragged himself along closely behind the rest of the group. "I fucked everything up." BB finished to himself as visions of the precious moments shared with Steffauri and Terra whirled about in his head.
"This, this is all my damn fault. I was the one who told Robin we should go, I was the one who paid no attention to Steff. It was all my fault…Terra, Steffauri, I'm sorry. I'm so, so, sorry." BBthought monotonously to himself as he wiped away several tears, and continued along the trail.
AN TIME! See! I TOLD you I write ya longer chappies! . Thanx 4 being patient with me! School, friends, lotsa stuffs, been going on and I haven't been able to update lately:( But, here it is and I hope you enjoyed the chappie! Sadly tho, 4 those of you who bared with me through this fic and grew to love it…There are only four more chappies including the epilogue until this fic is over! WWAAAAAAAHHHH! (tear up! Sniffles.) But, after this fic is over, I WILL BE STARTING THE SEQUEL TO GIZMO'S B-DAY! WHOOOO! XD Anyeho REVIEW NOW! And I mean it this time! The review count 4 the last chappie was HORRIBLE! (Tears some more!) Will update soon! .
