I know, this one is so short, but the shorter the chappie the quicker the update and the longer the story. I hope you guys enjoy this one!
Chapter 16
The Final Battle (Not the final chapter though!)
This would work. This had to work. They gave it their all pull through with this plan. It was the only one they had.
The black hole began to gather so many things, the only objects left in the room were the people and their power attacks. The dark ball had now grown to be the size of a work building. The ground beneath had now had a million large cracks and canyons, all filled with water. The fire descended even more.
"Give up now, children!" Rinua cackled. "It's only going to get worse for you from here! This is the real thing!" After she said this, the sucking winds came to an abrupt halt. The ball began to swell again. After that, it slowly made it's way towards the heroes. With it's large mass, it could not move at the speed of light, but with it's incredible size, there was no way to dodge it. They were going to take a direct…lethal…hit.
"NOW!" Cried Tensha. Rinua wrinkled her brow.
"Still trying are we now-gah!" All of a sudden, the cracking ground beneath the gargoyle gave out, and the gargoyle, along with Rinua and Kirokoa, fell into a very large, water filled, crack. The were now floating.
"So is this your ever mighty plan?" Laughed Kirokoa, as the gargoyle put it's hands on the ledges to pull itself out. Inoa spat to the side.
"Do it now, guys," she said, looking at her two adversaries in pure malice. The fire-users obeyed, and lowered their arms. The fire grew so low onto the gargoyle now, that its hands slipped off from the ledges, dropping itself back into the water. Kirokoa's cackling had stopped, and he and Rinua had now jumped into the water to avoid the fire descending onto them. Hinalia smiled. They were just where they wanted them now.
"This is it guys!" She said to her water companions, eying the black power ball that was still on its way. She was hoping they could finish this in time.
"Let's do it!" Narutaku shouted, as if this were the moment he's been waiting for all his life (which it kind of was).
As reincarnates of past saviors…
It was then that they lowered the water lower and lower into the depths of the cracks. As the water went down, it pulled the gargoyle, Rinua and Kirokoa down with it. And this time, with fire right over the opening, there was no escape. They struggled of course, but the water continued to pull them down deeper and deeper.
So deep that the last thing the heroes heard were the words "We…failed." Then silence followed.
The fire diminished, and the heroes and teens walked to the cracks and looked down into them. No horror movie thing where the killer pops up again follows. They know they have succeeded.
"Just one more thing left to do!" Narutaku put his hands together. "Just close these babies up, and then we can PARTAY!" he and Naruto broke into dance as the rest of them chuckled at this regard to the greatest accomplishment of their lives.
"He's right," nodded Sakaria. "We should close these cracks to insure their fates." The girls groaned.
"It think we've had enough "fate" for one day," sighed Tenten, and she walked to the end of the crack with Neji.
"Ok, you guys pull the pieces of Earth together, while Ino and Shikamaru heat the sides," Instructed Shikaru.
"What for?" asked Ino as she put her hands on the ledge.
"So that the rock turns molten and hardens after it sinks into the cracks. That way we know that they cannot come back." Shikaru explain. Understanding, they did was they were told. The rock edges turned red and began to sink inward. They seeped in the cracks as the pieces of earth were pulled together again by the Earth forces. After a few minutes, the ground was intact again. Not everything was done though; they suddenly heard a crackling noise and looked upward. Floating above the ground where the gargoyle once stood was the charcoal scroll of the dark prophecy. It was burning from the bottom up, disintegrating to the floor in the process. After the entire scroll was burnt to ash, the remains were blown away by wind that came as if out of nowhere.
They all smiled.
"So…we really did it." Hinata said softly as she grinned. The rest of them nodded. They had done it.
"Congrats all!" a voice came behind them. They swiveled to see the fellowship behind them, unscathed.
"You're ok! Phew, I was worried about you guys when I saw the black hole!" Ino put her hand on her chest in relief.
"No worries. Tensha wasn't kidding when she said that rock was impenetrable. We were pretty much safe the whole time." Kiba said as he brushed dirt off himself. They grinned.
"You guys did good." Nejero said as he and the rest of the saviors began to glow. "Very good. But unfortunately, we have to leave you now." The teen's faces fell when they realized he was right. They had outlived their time with them now that they had fulfilled their obligation.
"What's with the long faces?" Narutaku said, holding his hands up. "You should be happy! After all…" they all began to slowly fade.
"You are the real saviors here." They all said in unison as they faded completely. Their voices echoed, and within the light left behind there was a stone that resembled the one from earlier, only the swirls were reversing. Lee walked over to it.
"They left us with the return gem...we will get out of here now." Lee said, picking it up as that little tidbit just crossed everyone's minds.
"Oh yeah…we do need to get out of here somehow." Sakura said, looking around.
"And that's what the return gem is for!" chirped Chouji, saying just about the first thing he's said during this whole drama.
"Another great help from the fellowship," said Kiba doing a pretend bow. They all rolled their eyes but laughed.
"Come," said Shino gesturing them all over. "I'm getting homesick." They all looked at him funny, and he turned red and looked at the ground. "What? My bugs are probably worried sick about me." They accepted this explanation, but were still befuddled.
They all walked over to where the fellowship was. Lee set the stone down, and everyone circled around it. The fellowship began to recite the last lines of the prophecy. As they did so, wind picked up around them. And this time it wasn't because of Sakura and Sasuke. As they got more into it, the wind blew harder and they could feel themselves being lifted off their feet. Before they knew it, they felt shot into a portal. It was unexpected, but they were not frightened. They had left the place of their worst nightmares.
Sorry about how short the chapters are getting. Again, I'm trying to space them to make the ending last longer. I'm really complemented by all of you who don't want the story to end, but I don't want to ruin the story by going into random irrevalent plotlines. I swear I plan to give it a good ending. Keep looking for the next chappie! Thanks so much all of you, more than you will ever know!
