the devil within

by max333

When Tuxedo Mask's past identity is revealed, he's ripped from his beloved arm's while injured, and kidnapped to the negaverse where Prince Endymion is born. Yet things are not as they seem to the majority on either. Wanting his beloved Moon by his side he makes his own agenda, but is he truly playing both sides of the field or is he really one over the other? Find out more inside.

19. Endymion's Justice & face off part 1

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the devil within ch.19

EvilEndymionPOV

I think quickly of a reason or way to explain these alarms going off so she doesn't begin to suspect anything or decide to leave off. I need her here. Vulnerable. "Which is probably why the other Senshi have come here, the Doom and Gloom Girls were dispatched to stop them but apparently, they beat through those forces," I told her using it as a reason to keep her in here and to explain the alarms to go off.

It's not a good enough excuse to have her stay in here though and I work through a way to keep her in here. However, now I can see that she's more miffed than pissed at this.

"Their stronger and more of a nuisance than I gave them credit for," Her voice annoyed at this as I am admittedly surprised by her reaction. "No matter though, there's plenty of youma here."

I prevent myself from reacting.

"They will obliterate them, and then with this crystal, I will have control over everything. The Senshi will hold no power to my own. I will destroy whatever is left of them and make them beg for death. Even then I will find a way to make them suffer for getting in my way of universal domination. The world won't be enough now. To be a truly powerful god or goddess one must have complete and utter control. My time has finally come. The universe and all of its creations are now mine to do with as I please."

I blink for a moment digesting the stupid craziness of her words. For starters to ignore such a threat in her own kingdom was honestly reckless. Even IF she had the real crystal in her possession she had no clue how to actually wield it. To use its powers to the fullest. To control it to any extent for that matter. The power would potentially decimate her yet she's so entrapped by her hunger for power, domination, and utter control of everything it's obviously warped her brain.

If this was my kingdom, I'd have tightened everything down at this point. Dispatched guards, you name it. I don't know if she's not reacting out of sheer arrogance of what will happen to the Senshi, assuming their deaths are a given with the youma inside, despite her BEST youma being killed on the outside by them, or is so wrapped up in the 'crystal' that she's ignoring the obvious warning signs but this is NOT what a Queen or King would do.

Not a smart one anyways. She then makes her fatal flaw. The moment I've been waiting for since this all began. The moment all of my planning has been for. She turns her back to me, giving me her ignorance. Her fascination with the fake crystal takes up all of her thoughts as she holds it in her hands and feels its heat, its glow. I can't give her much time to look at it or think about it though. The power to give off the energy signature will only last so long and soon she will find out that it's a fake.

All these months I've spent here, earning her trust, earning my place here was for this one moment in time. In the end, I knew the only way to truly kill Beryl without it being a full-on power-to-power fight was to work my way till I was able to be with her at her most vulnerable point. To get close enough to her so I could end it all in one fatal move against her. I know she thinks her moment in time has come but really it's mine. Even Mamoru I can feel wants to kill her for what she's done.

I very carefully and soundlessly pull out the sword, the very sword she used to lead her armies with back during the silver millennium, I can feel the heaviness of it. Like the innocents that died are attached are waiting to be avenged and be freed. Who knows maybe there are some souls trapped in here, either way, vengeance will be ours. With her back turned to me I angle it just right and in a few quick steps at full force, I ram it as hard as I can upwards into her back, going from the mid-lower section through part of her rib cage.

The angle I aim for pierces one of her lungs easily as she gasps in sheer shock. Before she can scream for help I grab onto her mouth from behind effectively silencing her in the moment and pull her stunned, startled, and fumbling form further back onto the sword as she lets out a chortled gasp. She reaches for her scepter that's in the room, presumably WHY she had come in here in the first place.

It comes to her beckoning but is stopped by my hand. I let her watch as I use my powers to crush it in my anger and rage. It falls to the ground. I twist the sword into her, earning a startled cry and gasp from her. I can practically feel it going through her as I see it come out filled with blood on the other side. Dripping with it as I know she can see it too. I made sure the angle would hit more organs than just straight through as I pull it back out, some of the blood getting wiped off.

Mamoru's medical knowledge came in handy along with my knowledge of how to kill is effective in killing her. With this in mind I smile knowing I've hit one of her lungs, she's scrambling around for something to attack me within her room. Her panic is beginning to set in as she clearly didn't see THIS coming. Fumbling horribly as blood is beginning to come from her mouth before she sends a blast my way.

She's obviously onto me and trying to compute HOW I did it. I easily dodge it as she sends another. Just as I dodge the second one, as I don't need this to take too long, just need her dead now, I block her next two power attacks with my own shield, and during the few seconds that she takes to build up the third one, as she's losing both blood and energy, one that would definitely push me back a bit.

Despite my avid training and the fact I'm the Terrian prince she IS after all the Queen of the Negaverse and is quite powerful. It's why I had to be in the right position of power to do this. To get close enough. I throw a dozen steel-tipped black roses at her as she sees me using a weaker attack as a reason to think I'm weak. I avoid grinning knowing I needed her to think I was getting weak.

I needed her to react as I needed her. To be assuming that I was getting weaker therefore making a mistake on her part by getting cocky and going in for more of a kill shot. One that would lower her guard down for a few swift seconds to let out the powerful attack. I've seen it happen before. She keeps her shield up when attacking ONLY when her scepter is within range and now that she's weakened, both wounded and scepter-less she can't maintain that powerful combination anymore.

Though still very powerful which is why I need to weaken her further. She dives away from the wall she was momentarily pressed against and shoots off another power blast at me. I smirk having seen the move coming and executing my next move perfectly. I outmaneuver the counter hits, letting them hit the walls behind me, not stopping as I cut her off at her planned exit by force again.

Only this time from the front, as I dodge her latest attempt to hit me with a powerful strike. It nicks me just a bit but not enough to slow me down as I spin around another and just as she gets to the door I sweep up and slam the blade once more into her. My right hand gripping the handle with utter brute strength and jamming it into her. Shoving it in right under her rib cage. That soft spot that can take anyone down if hit right.

I use the momentum to push her away from the door she was angling to escape from as she tries to call out for help but the blood in her throat coming out of her mouth like a small fountain is preventing her from calling out very easily to the youma. I finally hit the wall and push it hard enough to impale her on it. She's now embedded in the wall. It's a pretty lengthy sword, to say the least.

She tries to stop the blade with her hands, but her own blood is slickened on it. It's satisfying to see her covered in her own mess...the thick red liquid makes her resistance and escape all the more futile. She tries to murmur something before I grab her face and look her dead in the eyes and shove it in the rest of the way. The handle is now hitting her cut dress as her blood seeps onto my hand now.

This time it's a deal breaker for her as I twist the big thick blade once more and slice clean through her spinal cord. Her whole body tries to react to it, shaking in the dreaded realization that her time is up. She's been defeated and there's no turning back to losing your spine...at least not that I'm aware of. The Negaverse has its own healing limits I would think. Even if not, I'm not risking it.

She still tries though. Bringing up power blasts that are gradually weaker and weaker with each breath she takes. I do begin to realize that while I've been fighting her in here I haven't heard a THING outside the door. I can only assume that Malachite is still fine as he's not one to go down so easily. Not against youma anyways. Beryl's last power blast I force her hand to turn on herself.

She lets it die out. Her body is obviously weakened. Even a powerful one such as hers has taken on too much blood loss and mortal wounds to sustain a good powerful hit. It's why I had to strike while the iron was hot. Or else her own personal shield would have been too strong to go up against. By doing things this way and destroying her scepter, I weakened her too much to use them effectively.

Her powers were off as was her aim to use them. I see her glaring up at me. Her own sword jammed into her so deeply that she was pinned to the wall. Her expression turns from a glare to beyond pissed off at me. The emotionless mask falls off as I let her see all the hate, all the anger of what she did to me...to all of us.

"Why...how?" she breaths out, her breaths coming out full of blood as she spits it out, like a weakness.

Her voice croaks' like a dying person. As satisfying as it is to hear her like this, as much as I want to gloat in the face of her defeat I can't help but let her see all the emotions I've been feeling and suppressing since the start. It hits me so hard that I can't help but feel my eyes begin to burn. My nose tingles and it hits me that I'm on the verge of tears. Angry tears, full of pent-up emotions from the long hard months we've endured.

From her attacks on us to my kidnapping, treating me like a lap dog to do her bidding. Trying to kill my future wife. Killing my family back in the Silver Millennium, destroying my kingdom, infusing me with Metallia's magic to essentially make me her bitch. Despite the powerful dark magic within me right now I just feel fueled by my anger and hatred of this vile creature before me.

Doing everything she did, just ruining so much for her own gain. It's all so much that I can barely suppress them. The nega-energy with me encourages me to beat her to death. To revel in my victory of killing my combatant to unleash it all and just lash out. Release it all, make her feel my pain, our pain. I can feel it encouraging me to let loose and fully liberate myself and let her feel it all.

I can see the anger in her eyes but I can also see the terror in them at what her own selfishness has caused. I can see simmering beneath those depths the few moments of realization that she 'fucked up beyond royally' when she took me and did this to ALL of us. That glimmer of dawning realization is enough for me to get a cap back on my overpowering emotions.

Reason and control that I hadn't realized I was losing slipped back in as I know there's no time to torture her as I please. I know I can't lose focus now. I'm able to force the emotions back down, the ones that didn't escape from my emotional and mental grasp, just enough to regain more control over myself and do not assume that this is the end. It's not over till her head is either in my hands severed from her body or her body is nothing but ashes. I barely put the leash on them in time.

Seeing her own anger, especially considering all that SHE has done I can't help but mock her a bit. "A bit angry are we?" I snarl out a bit as I see that her rage, despite dying pinned with her sword in her own room down here, is at new heights. For obvious reasons. I add on as I glare at her, "Well join the party cause I've been here for a thousand years, between being reborn, waiting to get my hands wrapped around your scrawny neck for what you do to me…to all of us."

I'm clearly beyond enraged as I tell her, "Tell me do you even give a damn about the pain and suffering you've caused? Do you feel ANY remorse for your actions? The lives lost because of your power trip and jealousy?!"

She nearly snarls at me in response, temporarily regaining her voice in her anger. "I did it for us…my prince...it's not my fault…," she gasps between breaths again as she slowly gives up on trying to pull the sword out. "You couldn't see the power…"

She returns her glare towards me. "Or see the damage that that moon bitch could do…she's the real enemy in this not me...she always has been. She's the reason we couldn't be together, the reason why I had to take such desperate measures back then. If you had simply seen what a union between us could have done," she gasps out, trying to once more blame Serenity for everything.

My frustration hits new levels as I practically spit out, "For kami's sake Beryl there was never an us!" She barely flinches, which makes me wonder if it's due to losing sensation or delusion that there was something there or both. "There was never going to be an us!" My voice begins to rise up. "You delusional, selfish, psychopath…" it's at this point that in my rage at her I grab onto her neck and begin to squeeze. My fingers tighten up around her throat as she tries to scratch at my arm to stop me.

I get a little bit closer. "You took everything from me so I see it as only fitting that I take everything from you…," I tell her. I think now it's hitting her that she's going to lose this fight. That I'm winning. A small part of her is no doubt wondering where her youma are to back her up. Malachite is taking care of them no doubt. I can't stop the smirk from hitting my face as I see the fight leave her, feel it even.

"Did I forget to mention, one of the powers that I was granted being here, probably to use it on my love to kill her as you so loved to demand of me…," I can see the regret in her eyes for it now, especially how this is coming back around towards her full circle. "Will now be used on you to drain you dry and use it to save my world…our world from the evil selfish bitch that you are."

I can feel the small bones and cartilage in her neck break down from the pressure of my hand on them. It feels so empowering to be doing this to her. To be getting rid of such evil in this world. "Know this though in your last moments of life, that it was my moon princess's love that saved me from being your bitch."

The last flare of anger hit her at my words, realization once again dawned on her that she wasn't able to fully have me and I was playing her this whole time. "Impossible…," she tried to sputter out.

"Not impossible when you have the love of an incredible, wonderful, compassionate, beautiful woman inside and out that not only trusts you implicitly but would go to the ends of the Earth for you...I held onto that love while you infected me with nega-energy. I stored it away safely so that when the time came I could see the look on your face, like the one right now that knows just how badly you fucked up but fucking with us."

I smirk. "I will say this though, had I been fully evil the plan to seduce and kill her would have worked like a charm, but you were too selfish and jealous to let something like that happen..." Then something hits me that makes me smile as I tell her letting my voice get lower and more serious sounding. "And I think it's because in the end...I would have fallen for her all over again."

I grin at her all consuming anger knowing that I was right about it. She tries to strike at me but her power is so diluted now that I am easily able to use my own powers to suppress hers as she resorts to just trying to slap me away but each movement only does further damage to herself. I use my powers to wrap vines around her wrists and pin them with the thorns into the wall before I further use my dark powers to electrocute her.

She cries out not for the first in pain. "Death may be a more peaceful ending than what you deserve but..." I stop the currents and give her dying body a slight break, just so I can see her gasping for air. I watch her suffer. She manages to look up at me, blood coming from her mouth.

"You've grown bloodthirsty with the nega-power in you," she tells me right as she gives me a glimmer of a smile. "What would your precious moon princess say about that?" she asks me.

I let the electricity flow and tell her as she screams unable to stop the agony, "She is my equal and as such trusts me to make the right call. Something you know nothing about." I smile back as I then add on once I stop the currents again. "Letting you live despite any measures we put in place would be a far greater gift than death and that is something I will not tolerate as you do not deserve it."

I'm a risk taker for sure when the situation called for it, but I'm not stupid, not when it comes to making my enemies suffer before they die. I get back into her face so she can clearly hear me and know my truths. "I will rule my planet with her by my side and you will be nothing more than a distant memory..."

She spits out more blood but it does no good as her mouth fills up with more.

"While you suffer in the afterlife, wherever in hell that is, full of your anger, your hate, your bitterness, know this...while you're there suffering for your crimes against us I want you to go there knowing that you mean absolutely nothing to us, we will live out the rest of our lives happily, and Serenity and I will have a family together...the way we were meant to and you will die knowing that."

"With that being said, your tedious little life comes to an end." She struggles to get one breath in as I mock her and ask, "Oh last words?"

She looks me dead in the eyes. "The kingdom you're aiming to destroy, the Negaverse…" There's a grin on her face that causes me a shred of unease, "They're the remnants of the Terrain kingdom."

My eyes widen a fraction at her words.

"This place is all that's left of your former home."

My anger bubbles over even more so to the surface than before.

"You destroy it and me within it and you destroy the last fragment of your kingdom…Prince Endymion."

I ease up on the pressure for a moment as I tell her, "It was tainted the moment you stepped into it…the moment you ruled it you made the memories here mean nothing to me." I see the last of whatever damage she was trying to inflict on me leave as she acceped her fate now.

It takes mere seconds later as I see the light dim from her eyes before I now know the truth of where this place came from, snap her neck with the rest of my anger and rage. I use my muscles to pull the sword free from her and use my powers to obliterate her body so no youma, no one left that has the power to revive her can. Her body becomes mere ashes and dust as she crumbles before my eyes.

I take a look around and look for anything that looks like it's familiar and yet nothing is. There are no memories here. Nothing that I can say belongs to me anymore. Nothing that says 'the great Terrian prince and his loving parents once lived here'. This place is an empty husk of what it once was, destroying it once Metallia is defeated will put the souls in here at rest and allow for evil to die so new life can grow.

I walk back outside and see that there are several dead youma out there. At least four to five are between being decapitated and blasted away. I step over a couple as Malachite blasts the last one away and turns its head into oatmeal. "Well, I'm off of that breakfast food for a while," I mutter as he looks at me. A little worse for wear but not too bad either.

"Several came down to interfere," he begins as he smirks.

"They did not last." I nod, "Didn't think they would. We need to go through, to help the Senshi destroy Metallia, especially now that the only person who can allow her to take on more of a human form is dead."

Malachite nods and I can see the relief he is feeling. I thought I felt a massive presence die inside. I didn't want to get my hopes up though."

He smiles towards the end as I grin and punch him good naturally in the shoulder, "Let's get going." We both head to our final destination.

O.O.O

Moon POV

I feel the heat of the crystal take control and transform me. The silks of my princess dress are back in place as my crystal is flashing in full glimmer as I stand untouched and see myself in a crater where her power hit landed. The crystal saved my life. "Ahh the princess in all her glory, soon that dress will be stained with your blood," she tells me, laughing at the idea of it.

"Not before you are nothing more than vapor," I state in response.

I can feel her building up the darkness in her powers as I raise up my moon wand…give me the strength to protect those that cannot fight for themselves against this evil…cause she will do all that she can to destroy this world and the next till there's nothing left but misery and death…let me protect it…

"Silver crystal power!" I call out as I watch the lights come out and power up the silver crystal.

I feel it envelop my body and swirl around me. More powerful than it ever has before. All those times of training with Endymion have finally come down to this. With all the practice sessions, and the meditation we went through, I feel such a strong connection to the crystal and now it's coming full circle. The power of the silver crystal leaves out as hers does once more and in seconds flat all you can see and hear is the massive clash of good versus evil.

It's enough to create a bright yet dark rim around the other as both powers come together to fight for dominance. I can feel it coursing through me so strongly like it's my own life force I'm using to fight her. I'll use it all if that's what it takes to protect everyone though. When I look into the black nothingness that is her I see nothing other than a blank, emotionless soul that holds no compass nor cares for anything. It's all the more reason to fight this evil and win.

"You will never win!" she shouts as I feel how the increase in power is reacting to our environment. Objects around us are whipping about as the throne gets shredded by the sheer power alone. My hair is whipping all around me and the crystal's power is forming both a shield around me and sending out a massively powerful blast towards her as well.

I see her anger yet I also see her laughter at me, "Your stupid simp of a princess! Your poor mother couldn't defeat me and neither will you! I shall send you to greet her in the afterlife!"

Her shouts enflame me, glorying in what happened all that time ago.

"She still sealed you away all these years…that's more than anyone else could do at that time and I'm her daughter! I'll do worse!" I shout at the end when I whip the moon rod at her.

I was upset at her calling out my mother's sealing her like it was nothing. It did so much for so many people. My mother saved millions of lives that day, on two different planets no less, I plan to make sure that her sacrifice wasn't in vain. This evil needs to die today. I cry out in anger and sadness, letting it help fuel me in this fight.

"You will not beat me!" Metallia screams out as she tries to hit me with a more intense blast than before. It does admittedly push me back just a bit. I cringe at that as she glories in it. Relishes on it even as I keep my focus up. Deciding that I need more power I feel it more with the added shield that was around me and push more power into her. This of course makes her do the same thing along with enraging her. Debris starts to hit me as I get bruises on my arms and wonder how long till I get hit with something hard enough to knock me out.

That's when I see youma entering the area and can't help but think…oh no! I can't battle her AND the youma. I see the gleeful expression on her face at them taking me out granting her an exit to begin her destructive reign of terror once more.

"You will perish soon enough," she speaks her voice full of disturbing amounts of glee. I try to figure out what I can do, how I can defeat them all, AND destroy her when I don't have the power to do all of that, at least not yet, when I see it happening.

I see them getting barbecued and struck by lightning and frozen from behind while another gets stabbed to death and another gets its head nearly blown off by an orange-looking laser. I turn my head away as the ashy remnants are far behind I then take a look back over my shoulder as even Metallia looks back and sees the youma now dead by the hands of the rest of the Senshi and Jadeite who's tossed caution to the wind at this point and is proudly standing before her at our side as he gives me a friendly smile.

My previous worry goes away as relief begins to course its a way through me as I look back at her with renewed hope and for the first time see fear in her dark eyes. There's that feeling of knowing hitting me once more. The one that tells me we will win this. I can't stop smiling as a wave of crushing comfort hits me. We ARE going to win this and Metallia will be defeated no matter what.

They begin to run towards us, "What do you think we're going to let you have all the fun?!" Mars says as she shouts out, "Mars fire! Ignite!"

Ss the rest of the Senshi follow suit as well. Metallia grunts at the force of being hit but doesn't back down any, "You impudent girls! I will not be defeated." She then puts her shadowy hands to the ceiling of the place and seems to fuse them in as we look on in confusion.

She looks back down at us, "Soon enough it won't matter. My power can spread like a plague. Infecting anyone who gets in my way." I wonder what she means when Mercury shouts, "She's using part of her powers to let the nega-energy leave the dark kingdom and spread over the world, little by little it's leaving here."

This is obviously worrisome, but it also tells me something else. She's spreading herself out, she's getting worried and trying to infect more people since she KNOWS she might not win after all. I can't help but give a little smile that confuses Metallia.

"What?!" she shouts.

"I never would have pegged you for showing fear before your enemy but thanks anyways." Her eyes widen up as her anger takes over pulsating more power into her attack on me as I keep up my own power attack on her.

"You're not going to win!" I shout and feel more energy coming to me. My own confidence rises as I feel the girls feeding their own powers yet I know it's not enough, not yet anyway. That's when Metallia's own forcefield expands and covers more space in here than before. My powers are still hitting her as the powerful blast hasn't faded, yet she using her own powers, a different type to expand.

"She's using the energy she's getting from the people on the outside to expand what she has in here," Mercury shouts.

The winds are getting worse in here as the structure supports begin to weaken from both strong power sources hitting each other. The reverberations are causing massive damage to an already damaged place. Metallia seems to not care nor mind that her 'kingdom' will be down soon enough. Probably because she'll take us with her. When the darkness of her dome expands she gets a smile on her face.

"I will expunge you from this world moon brat. No one will be left for you to save and there won't be any of you left to save them." Her cackle is deep as if all knowledge of this as the dark dome begins to cover me. I hold steady and strong, not wanting to back down as I know the moment I show any sign of weakness, it's wrapped. It's over. I begin to see nothing but darkness shroud me like a blanket.

Now my own shield that I have is the only thing that's bright enough in here to see ANYTHING with, and that's the bare minimum. I can feel the Negaverse's energy trying its best to penetrate the barrier I have around me. It's just her and me in this dark world that she thrives off being in. I knew that if I was going to go down, that right now I was in the heart of the beast as it were. "Oh to have the silver crystal so close!"

Her hollered words echo out as she tries to attack me from all sides. My own forcefield, thanks to my training, is just barely holding up right now. I can feel the winds of her nega-energy picking up as she tries to take me down. Using them to force me to give in despite my willpower in preventing THAT from happening. I don't know what's going on with the Senshi right now. I can't see them anymore.

I take a brief glance back and see nothing, but the darkness Metallia has surrounded us. I can't hear them anymore, yet I feel they're trying to reach me. I let myself glance once more back as I push the power continuously forward I see the brightness of their powers glowing behind me as if trying to get in. It's the only other source of light that has been able to breach this nega-dome of darkness.

Knowing that their still out there fighting gives me strength and hope to continue going forward. We are ALL in this together. Plus…if for whatever reason I can't destroy her on my own I need to weaken her enough for them to finally kill her. They're the last hope left and I have faith in them that if something were to happen to me that they would save everyone. Just like they've had my back all this time.

"You may think that you have me…," I crane my neck back and look at her as she tries to put pressure on the shield. Trying to use her powers to do many things at once. "But the reality is Metallia…"

I push more of my own energy into the silver crystal, knowing I'm beginning to push it to the brink. However, I know I have some left and I don't want to use it all just now just to be safe and see if I can still destroy her with what I have.

"If YOU had me, you wouldn't have had to separate me from the others. You would already have killed me and yet…here I am…still standing in your way…back then and even now…there is no stopping good from winning…eventually we will surpass evil."

She growls at me for my words. Yes, grows at me for it. "You're such an insolent girl!" She pushes even more energy before from what I'm gathering is the people up top at me.

I can see the darkness growing even further, as Metallia uses more of the energy she's taking from the innocents. My dress is flapping hard in the winds as she tries to make me flutter. She whips nega-energy at me along with her powers, trying to make me falter. I get upset and let my anger flow through, slapping the moon scepter back towards her as a powerful blast erupts from both of our sides.

So I laugh at her making her falter a moment. "Using the people above us, the people of earth to energize you in this fight against me…and me ALONE…pathetic till the end Metallia." This enrages her as she slams even more energy into her power blast at me which admittedly pushes my own power blast back down a bit. I can't help the small whimper that comes out of me as I feel the pain she's trying to inflict on me.

I can then hear the voice of Mercury. It sounds soft and distorted in here which means she must be shouting it out there. "Luna and Artemis are getting in reports of people attacking each other!" Metallia could hear it too. "It has begun…I will be the destroyer of this world and many others!"

I snap back full of anger, "Not going to happen." I focus myself more and pour more of my own energy into the crystal.

Pushing it to its limits as I am now getting to my own. However, the shield I have is wearing down as my powers are being used more to keep the attack blast up and in full rather than to keep the shield going. Metallia is using the energy from the chaos as a way to power her own selfish desires and knows she's doing it and doesn't care cause if I don't use the last bit of my own power, I will lose this fight.

I have to win this, for the people up there, for the planet, for the universe. I resolve myself to do it. Using it all up so I can make every last-ditch effort possible to protect the people of earth from her. I lower down on the power from the barrier and put more into the power blast making her grunt in agony from it but also making me grunt from feeling more of her nega-powers too.

I can still hear the girls out there as I try to look back but know I can't now. I don't want to lose focus for even another second in this. Yet I feel something changing back behind me. Like something or someone is coming through the darkness towards me. Did a youma get in? is one sneaking in right now? A tear begins to form in my eye that I force back so that Metallia doesn't think that she's winning.

She can't see weakness or fear in me. She'll exploit it. I feel whoever it is coming up to me and my instinct is to block them, but it could also be someone coming up to help me. I go through my mental exercises to regain momentum as I breathe in and out then decide to take a look back only to see that Metallia looks way too damned pleased suddenly, "The time has come for you to die."

My eyes close for a moment before I look back.