Hey guys, Taka's back, and I'm not dead, and FINALLY I managed to finish this. I know, I'm sorry for letting you guys waiting for so long, I should have got his done long ago. But I guess it's better later than never. Well, withou anything to add.
LEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET'S GO
"What exactly do you mean by 'big guns'?" Luna asked.
"Usually, I wouldn't show you, it was my plan for the next April Fools, but since the situation asks for it…"
Luan guided them towards a corner, which had a computer laying down.
"Before you planned on hiring those doubles, this was my original plan." She explained. "It surely cost to make this work, but this pranks will be on the house."
"Luan, this is no time for puns." Lucy said.
"What is that anyway?" Lana asked.
"This, my dear sisters, it's one of my biggest works. This time, I didn't filled the house with traps and pranks. The WHOLE house is a trap!" She exclaimed.
"What?" Everyone asked.
"I can't activate it now. It will ruin the surprise effect, but to put things simply, with this computer, I can do almost everything with our house!"
All of them looked at each other. "How did you managed to do this?" Luna asked.
"Are you doubting of my abilities? It was months of hard work, planning, and buying Lisa's help with chocolate."
"Will they get hurt?" Leni asked.
Luan thought for a while. "Probably. This will help us take them down one by one, and make this fight more fair."
"Are you sure this will work?" Luna asked.
"I have no idea." Luan replied. "But it surely is the best I can get."
"So, should we strike them back?" Lana asked, punching her own hand. "Ouch." She began shaking her hand in pain.
"Is there anything you know that we could use at our advantage?" Lucy asked to Luna.
"Lynn is probably the one commanding the family. The best idea is to take out some of them silently, and break the connection with that spirit. If they finds us, the focus is on her." Luna explained, with whatever information Lincoln and Dennis could come up with together.
"So, that's it? We're really fighting our family to defeat an evil spirit, and then bring Lincoln back to life?" Lana asked.
All of them looked at each other in confusion. "Well, yeah…" Luna said. It was as that moment they stopped to think how crazy that whole thing sounds like.
"Well, I guess we have no other choice then. Let's go?" Lana said.
They all faced each other, and nodded. Luan grabbed the computer with Leni's help, and they carried towards the van. Once everyone was inside, the vehicle was turned on, and Luna faced the others behind them.
"Let's end this." Luna said.
The five girls drove for a while, until they reached their house. The lights inside were still on, and they didn't risked getting to close. Instead, they parked the van a few houses back.
"Okay, so how are we doing this?" Lucy asked.
"I can use this to separate our family from one another, and Luna...Lincoln….I don't know, will be able to break the control between them. You can do that, right?"
"Yeah, I can." Luna said. Inside her head, Lincoln was already receiving the instructions on how to proceed.
"And the rest of us?" Leni asked.
"Lucy, you make your way inside and into the vents. I'll need eyes inside the house, and you'll be just perfect." Luan said, handing her the walkie talkie they used to rescue Luan earlier, and the grappling hook. It was a good thing they left that equipment on the van. "Leni, Lana, I need you two to be with Luna, just in case anything happens."
"But how will we know when something will happen?" Luna asked.
"Just make your way to the backyard and stay hidden. You'll see it happening in front of your eyes."
"I have a bad feeling about this." Lucy comments.
"What exactly you don't have a bad feeling about?" Lana asked.
"Come on, leave stupid arguments for later." Luna said. "For now, we already have enough problems. Now let's go."
Leni, Lana, Lucy and Luna left the van, while Luan remained inside, and turned on the computer. They sneaked their way towards the backyard, and noticed some shadows of their family members. When they reached their destination, Lucy was about to use the hook to climb up. She turned to her siblings.
'Be careful, sis…" Luna said.
Lucy nodded, and climbed her way towards one of the windows. Once she was out of sight for the 3 sisters, they made their way to their hiding spot, near the garage.
"Okay, now we wait." Luna said.
"So, what exactly is the plan for when we're done here?" Lana asked. "I mean, we beat this evil spirit, then what, we will bring you back?"
"Well, something like that." Luna replied. "Let's just hope this actually works"
Suddenly, they heard a scream coming from inside the house. Based on the little that they could see through the windows, it seemed that someone was being thrown one side to the other, considering how fast one of the shadows moved from the second floor to the first floor. The back door of the house opened by itself, and Lisa came flying from inside it, lading near their spot, apparently dazed and stunted.
"Like, this was totes worse than that other thing she did last time." Leni said,
"We've got no time for this, let's go." Luna said. They approached Lisa and dragged her to their hiding spot, while she tried to force herself free. Considering everyone had a similar boost to their strength, Lisa didn't manage to free herself. "Just hold her straight." Luna ordered, and they both followed the order.
Luna did a process similar as she did to buff her siblings, holding Lisa's hand. The shining veins went from her body to Lisa, the only difference being that, when she was finished, Lincoln from the inside saw a dark mist leaving his sister's body, as she fell unconscious on Leni and Lana's arms.
"One down, six to go." Luna said.
"You really think I don't know you're out there?" They all heard a scream, apparently coming from Lynn. "Let's see if you know how to fight when facing a threat without being a coward."
"Oh dang, he's coming for us!" Lana whispered. "What do we do now?"
"Let's get inside!" Luna said. "Lucy might need our help, and if what Luan said is true, we might have a better chance to fight them there." She explained, and they both nodded.
"But what about Lisa?" Leni asked.
"She'll take a while to wake up…" Luna said. "Leni, take her back to the van, then meet me and Lana inside, understand?"
"Yeah, I do." Leni ran with her in her arms.
"Now, let's do this." Luna said.
"You can bet." Lana replied.
They both sneaked their way inside the kitchen and to the living room. Unfortunately, the other six family members were waiting for them there. Lynn took a step forward.
"So, you think you can take over us with a few pranks?" She asked. "You may have saved one, but we're still on advantage here. We're six, and you're only two."
"Well, you could say we have some backup support." Luna replied. "And we will win this fight."
"Huh, yeah, you and that little one? Don't make me laugh."
"It's actually a bit more than that."
Not 2 seconds after Luna said that, the floor below some of the family members opened, swallowing both parents and Lily, leading towards the basement. No sound of them hitting the ground was heard though.
"What the-" Lynn said, looking back.
"Guess you're not it so much advantage now, huh?" Luna teased.
"You're still only two."
"Three." Lucy said, running down the staircase.
"Seven!" Leni shouted, coming from the front door. "Or was it nine that comes after 3?"
If it was any other situation, everyone would probably just laugh or facepalm, thought they just stood in a serious pose. "Accept it, you lost. Now just leave my family alone."
Suddenly, they begin hearing hitting noises coming from the basement door.
"Guess my backup is coming." Lynn said with a smile.
"Everyone, charge!" Luna ordered, and the 3 followed her orders
Leni and Lucy went after Lori, who was a bit stronger than each of them individually, but together she was relatively easy to overpower and hold her to the ground, even if none of the two were really experienced in fighting. They did what they could to get her to stumble and fall on the ground, and then they hold her, not letting her move.
Lana went after Lola. While she didn't want to hurt her twin, she couldn't help but need to hold her down. Plus, they already fought most of the time, so it's not like it was much different here. Punches flew from both sides, and the fight what sort of even, but even so, Lana knew she only had to keep her away from Luna
Luna went after Lynn. She tackled her into the ground, however, Lynn managed to turn around and stay over her. The fact is, there wasn't much Luna was able to do.
"There's nothing you can do, Lincoln. I won this, just accept it!" Lynn said. "I already made all of your family go against you with that luck story, what makes you think you have any chance?"
"Wait, you were behind it?" Luna asked.
Lincoln inside of Luna''s body felt anger bubbling up. His spirit fists were closed so strongly, he would have probably hurt himself, if it wasn't from the fact he was already a spirit.
"Of course. And it was so fun to do." Lynn laughed. "Just like bullying your goth sister, hurting that cell phone addict with you, making those twins almost get-"
"Get out of my family!" Luna screamed, after falling unconscious. Lincoln left Luna's body, and entered Lynn's so quickly that Lucio, who was inside the latter, had no time to react before he received a blow, pushing him away from where he was, and making him lose control of Lynn. Outside, Lynn simply stopped holding Luna, and simply fell on the floor, moving uncontrollably.
"God dammit boy, now you'll see!" Lucio dashed back, hitting Lincoln, who fell back a bit.
"It's time to end your tormenting over my family once and for all." Lincoln said.
"Ha, you stand no chance. You've no idea what I'm capable of!"
"But I am." A third voice said, and both of them saw Dennis entering the place.
"Oh, you again." Lucio said. "Come on, let's see what you'll do against me!"
"Don't you forget about me!" A fourth voice said, and Lincoln saw that Dennis somehow brought Alice to the fight.
"Okay, this is getting a bit unfair." Lucio admitted it.
"You wish." Dennis said, tackling the spirit, and trying to quickly make him unable to move. "No matter how much you train, I still beat you on this."
However, Lucio held him and easily threw him away. "You really think I haven't learned anything? I told you, you can beat me-"
He felt someone pulling him, and noticed it was Lincoln. "Let's see if you like this than!" He shouted.
"What are you talking about?" Lucio asked. Lincoln held the spirits face, adn after a few seconds, he began feeling like he was burning.. "Ahhh, what is this?"
"Now leave my family alone, and never come back!" He shouted, as he saw Lucio suffering from the burn, until he simply lost his shape, and disappeared leaving a track of black fog. "Wow, this actually worked." Lincoln said.
"I told you it would." Dennis said. "Let you borrow some of the purification power was surely worth it. He won't be showing his face off soon."
Outside of Lynn's body, everyone who was under the control of Lucio was now fallen on the floor unconscious, and the banging on the basement door stopped. While the house was messy mostly due to the fights, apparently everyone was okay.
"So, is this over?" Leni asked.
"Lucy?" Lana asked.
"I cannot feel the presence of dark forces. I assume it must be over, for now."
The front door opened, and Luan came inside, alongside Lisa, who had woken up.
"So, what do we do now?" Luan asked. "I mean, if this is all over…"
"I'm still waiting for a proper explanation to the happenings regarding the last hours of this day." Lisa said.
"Uh, my head." They heard a groan coming from the floor, and saw Luna standing up. She saw the state of the house and some of the Louds. "Wow, dudes, what happened here?"
Slowly, the rest of the Loud family began to wake up and witness the state of the house. Not the worst they've ever scene, but the situation was so strange not even the parents remembered that Luan shouldn't even be there. There were only questions with no answers, no one knew exactly how to explain what was going on, until they all witnessed an orange fog begin appearing in front of them, and earning the shape of a spirit
"Leni, Luna, Lucy and Lana Loud. Your presence is requested for one last task for your brother's soul, and I shall guide you to it."
Soon, all of the Loud family members, by orders of the spirit, were heading towards the graveyard. They all found it weird, but they weren't even sure on what was happening in the first place, even if Lucy, Lana and the others who had contact with Lincoln tried to explain it.
After they reached the place, the four mentioned earlier were guided for the place of the ritual. Alice was already waiting there with Lincoln, even if neither could be seen.
"Can't believe I'm going back to life." Lincoln said. "Guess I own you guys a thanks." He said, seeing his sisters getting ready, and beginning to follow Dennis' instructions.
"We'll try not let any soul like Lucio show up again." She said. "Now remember, it's your second chance. Don't waste it."
"I definitely won't." Lincoln said. They watched as his sisters proceed, and soon the red circle began to shine. Lincoln then felt a force was pulling him towards the circle.
"Goodbye for you two." Lincoln said.
"Enjoy your new life." Was the last thing he heard from the blue spirit, before he was sucked into the circle. He saw a giant white flash, before it changed to the dark trees at night.
He sit up, and noticed that his legs were back, and not only that, but also that he wasn't looking so white. He looked around, and the four of his sisters were looking at him, like they didn't believe it actually worked.
"This actually worked!" Luna exclaimed, as the four get close to hug their brother. Hearing that sentence, the rest of the Louds made their way to the ritual area, to comprove by themselves that, indeed, their brother was back. They spent a few moments only on a giant group hug, before they began celebrating how they'd be a normal family again.
"Unfortunately, that might not be how it happens." Lisa said.
Everyone looked at her, confused. "Literally, what do you mean?"
"Lincoln has been confirmed deceased, and considering he's back, there will be suspects towards us, rather it be government research, or legal measures against us, due to 'faking' his death. In addition, we cannot ignore the fact that Luan is going to be searched for escaping the institution, and possible other suspects over our family. "
"Then what should we do?" Lincoln asked.
Six months later
"And that's the reason I moved here." Lincoln said.
Lincoln was with a group of boys seated in a table during lunch period on his new school. Things have changed a lot since they have moved from Royal Woods, but the family decided it would be for the best for the family, even if they had to leave so many people behind. They couldn't even say goodbye to people properly. After all they managed to understand from that situation, they knew they couldn't risk it, if they wanted the family to stay the way it was.
"Honestly dude, you sure are creative with your stories." One of them said, not believing him
"Yeah, but still, you have to become a better liar." Another one said.
On that moment, the bell rang.
"Well, it's time to go." A third one said, as they stood up and went to class, while Lincoln stood a bit behind.
"If only it was a made up story."
And this is the conclusion of The Soul of The Hurt. I wanted to thank everyone on the support for this story, and apologize again for the delay on this last chapter.
As for the other fics, I'll try to update as much as I can. However, I decided to, instead of working in all of them, I'll focus on only a few, to provide as much quality with a not so big time gap. So, I'll focus more on 3 fics, Too Sweet For My Taste, The Killing Joke and I Know How You Feel. The other fics aren't forgotten, but they'll have less attention temporarily.
I hope you enjoyed the conclusion, and thanks again for the support on this fic.