Stardew Valley's strong rains and winds quieted down to mere hard rains as the Wizard Rasmodius created a rounded barrier sheltering him and the five bodies before him from the elements. He watched as Sam's and Sebastian's bodies twitched violently and Abigail sharply whipped to her side. Faye and Penny remained still, though expressions of distress began pulling on their facial features.

"Goodness. The mental realm is a lot more volatile than initially thought," he muttered to himself, "I hope they're doing okay."


"Are you going to actually put up a fight this time?"

The Sultry Faye grinned excitedly at Sam and Sebastian, having successfully disarmed them of their firearm. Hardly a hair on her head was out of place compared to the two boys, who were both panting. One of Sam's jacket sleeves were ripped off and Sebastian's jeans sported bloody rips and holes as they glared darkly at her.

"Obviously, our usual divide and conquer thing won't work here, huh?" Sebastian sneered as he spoke under his breath.

"Any ideas?" Sam asked him. They shared a quick knowing glance until all of a sudden, both boys were smacked against part of the rocky mountain wall, and they effectively crumpled to the ground.

"How about you two drop dead, I drop your corpses into the dark void where I came from, and you can join me there?" murmured the Sultry Faye excitedly as she strode towards Sebastian's body, "Starting with you, Seb." She grabbed him by the collar and lifted him off the ground. Her eyes shone milky violet and her pearly whites bared in a wicked grin as she inhaled deeply through her scarlet lips.

Unbeknownst to the subconscious Sebastian, a translucent white essence began pouring forth from his lips and into Sultry Faye's own. In no time, her regained his consciousness, only to struggle weakly against his rapidly-waning strength the more his lifeforce seemed to drain.

"Sebastian! Hold on!" Abigail yelled at him amidst her disadvantaged position in her blade fight against the Cloaked Faye, "Sam! Get up!"

"Mind your fights, bitch," the Cloaked Faye snickered as she dealt swift slashes across Abigail's torso, allowing blood to splatter on the dirt, "Unless of course, you're allowing me to finish you off."

Abigail responded with a hack to Faye's cheek, "Never." She looked over to Penny and saw what just seemed like a flurry of whips and a steadily bloodied Penny hunched over a small something. A few feet in between all of them was Sam's discarded firearm courtesy of the Sultry Faye clutching onto Sebastian.

With adrenaline pumping anew through her veins, Abigail felt a spurt of agility rush throughout her body as she quickly maneuvered behind the Cloaked Faye and promptly stabbed her in the back. As the Cloaked Faye fell to her knees, Abigail sprinted towards the gun, grabbed it, and fired two finishing shots into Cloaked Faye's chest.

One hit the heart, and with an anguished look on her face, the Cloaked Faye mustered a weak grin as she disintegrated into shining yellow dust. As quick as she disappeared, the lingering dust formed itself into a blinding ray of light and struck Morris in the heart of the void.

In another fight away from the others, Faye was squaring off head-to-head with her battered counterpart. She saw the blast hit Morris from the side of her eye, and the both of them stopped in their tracks, feeling the hit reverberate throughout their bodies. At once, Faye felt strength returning to her as she saw the same strength waning in her counterpart.

"Never thought of ending it all that way," she smirked excitedly, though fatigue was still apparent on her face.

"Not if I can help it," the Battered Faye shot back as she began transforming into an all-shadowed form, "We're all a part of you, and nothing can change that."

As the two Fayes resumed their martial sparring, Morris let out a horrible screech from his position on the void perch. He recoiled before regaining his composure, though that had momentarily halted his rapid whipping.

Taking the opportunity, Penny, now sporting numerous welts and whiplash wounds, picked up Baby Faye and sprinted towards Abigail.

"Abigail, help Sam!" Penny urged her as she clutched Faye harder, "Then you two can take on that monster. IT'S GOING TO KILL SEBASTIAN!"

"She falls to anyone who can outplay her game," Baby Faye said in a muffled voice against Penny's chest.

"Got it," Abigail nodded. But first, I have to interrupt that life flow somehow.

She charged and rammed herself as hard as she could into the life-sucking Faye, knocking Sultry Faye off-balance onto the ground. Regaining her footing, Abigail rushed to Sebastian and shoved him out of the way before reaching Sam, who was coming to.

"Sam! Sebastian just almost got the life sucked out of him. I can help you get that witch," Abigail shook him roughly. She looked back worriedly and saw that Sultry Faye had resumed sucking the life out of Sebastian who, at this point, was deathly pale. Abigail yanked Sam to his feet, and he cast a look between the Sultry Faye, Faye fighting with the abused version of herself, and Penny, who looked at him expectantly as she hugged Baby Faye close. He saw as the oncoming whips slithered behind her and resumed their abuse, resulting in Penny and Baby Faye crying aloud.

"Ready that gun, Abi," he muttered to her, "Wait for my signal." At her momentarily confused look he added, "You'll know what it is."

Abigail could only nod and cock the pistol as Sam rushed at Sebastian. Grabbing him by the shoulders to thrust him in Abigail's direction, the life force flow broke once again as he then charged at the Sultry Faye. Catching her by surprise, he felt her slump helplessly as he roughly grabbed her and his lips locked with hers.

"Haha, you bastard," Sebastian chuckled weakly, a wide smirk on his and Abigail's faces. He looked around at the other two Fayes fighting in the distance and saw that the real Faye had a suddenly stunned look on her face.

Her fingers traveled to touch her lips before she turned to look at what was happening. Her eyes widened at seeing Sam kissing her impish self before getting mauled in the stomach by her bruised half. Shaking off the strange feeling, she aimed a punch to her evil half's temple.

"You've been waiting for that," the Shadow Faye snickered as she aimed a perfect roundhouse kick to the head. Faye immediately smashed into the dirt.

The pistol sounded its shot as Abigail aimed squarely at the Sultry Faye's back. Her body slackened against Sam's hold as it connected. Without further words, she, too, mustered a weak smile before she disintegrated into golden dust. As with the previous Faye, she fired at Morris and hit him square in the chest.

Again, the whipping subsided and the change of strength hit both fighting Fayes once again. The essence of Sebastian's life sucked by the Sultry Faye drifted through the wind, and Sebastian breathed it all back in, regaining his strength and senses. Morris was now visibly weak as he fought to keep his balance against the bigger blast resulting from this second defeat. It was at this point that Baby Faye let go of Penny hesitantly and looked up at her with a sad smile.

"We'll all be at peace soon," she said quietly as Sam, Sebastian, and Abigail ran to meet up with the two of them, "Thank you for everything you've done."

"Why are you talking like that? Is there anything else we should know?" Penny asked her weakly, sporting numerous wounds as she was knelt at Baby Faye's eye level. Baby Faye let go of her and picked up a number of the throwing knives left behind by Cloaked Faye.

"Only that older me can end everything only if you four believe in her now that you've seen everything," Baby Faye answered simply as she thrust one of the knives knife into Penny's hand, "As for myself, I'm of no further use to you alive here in front of you."

Penny's eyes welled up with tears as she looked at the glinting knife, "I don't think I could…"

"You still saved me, saved us, in the face of oncoming abuse the way you did," Baby Faye smiled as she reached up to touch Penny's cheek, "I'm forever grateful. I can go now knowing I will have friends like you." She then turned to Sam and handed him the remainder of the knives.

Penny looked up at the other three standing behind her. Sebastian was catching his breath and was held up by Abigail whilst Sam looked between Penny and Baby Faye sadly. The three of them nodded gravely, and tears flowed down Penny's cheeks as she turned to face Baby Faye again.

"Thank you. I promise to help you however I can, even if it means just being a friend."

Shakily, she held the knife to Baby Faye's stomach and shanked her clean. Baby Faye giggled weakly as blood leaked from the corners of her mouth. As she and her teddy bear collapsed, she, too, withered into gold dust.

It became a blast larger than the previous two, and struck itself again into Morris's chest. The whiplashes were finally halted and silenced as Morris fought to keep standing.

"Well THAT… was an interesting ending," Abigail muttered in awe.

"Not quite yet. There's still one more," Sam reminded her, pointing further up the cliff. There, the two Fayes were still facing off in a purely martial art-style manner. As the teddy bear lay innocently motionless on the ground, the four of them made their way up the mountain cliff.

Faye had gotten up and spat out a mouthful of dirt before she merely glared at her battered alter ego. She watched as Sam, Sebastian, Abigail, and Penny hobbled towards where they were fighting, covered in equally as many bruises and wounds as she was.

"Giving up? It'll make this a lot easier," snickered Shadow Faye as she got into yet another readying fighting stance, "Your friends won't have to suffer much longer on your behalf any longer."

Faye could only let out a frustrated scream as she leapt up and began meeting the Shadow Faye blow for blow. Before the Shadow Faye could land a knockout punch to the temple, Faye stopped it in its tracks.

"Why save them?" Shadow Faye spat in her face, "Especially when you know this is only going to end badly for you."

Faye answered back quietly, "I saved them from you, and they still cared enough to reach me here." And she struck back, hitting every single pressure point she could effectively reach. With a huff, the Shadow Faye found herself partially paralyzed and slowed in her now-weakened movements.

"It was just a mere experiment gone wrong, and you took the opportunity to come back," Faye went on as she elbowed the Shadow Faye to the temple. She buckled to the ground in a crumpled heap. "There's no forgiveness for what you've almost made me do."

"You can move on in peace, Faye!" Penny pleaded as they came within earshot of them, "You don't have to beat yourself up anymore!"

"Yeah! We're all here now! You're better than this," Sebastian added on, taking a few of the knives from Sam cautiously.

"Faye! Catch!"

Faye turned and saw Abigail flinging the Galaxy Sword towards her. She smiled meekly. Leave it to being in the mental realm to thinking to get what you need.

She caught it with one hand and saw Shadow Faye ready to pounce. Once she leapt, Faye stabbed her squarely in the chest. Black blood spurted everywhere.

"Even if you banish me from here, you know I'll just come back," hissed the now-bloody and shattered Shadow Faye as she slithered further through the sword. Faye just looked at her loftily, flinging her body off the sword and closer towards the dark void where Morris could only watch in weakness and resentment from his point in the center.

Faye walked past the four others, and they followed her quietly as she gestured to them. "I didn't have them last time. They helped give myself a second chance."

"Finish her, Faye," Sam encouraged quietly at her side, "Finish all this."

In a flash, she grabbed the knives from Sam and Sebastian and flung them as hard as she could. In five swift chops, the Shadow Faye was dismembered into six separate parts. Piece by piece, Faye flung them into the void, and each impact resulted in more blows of light striking Morris into an unrecognizable form. Finally, with just the Shadow Faye's head left, Faye lifted it by the dirt-tinged maroon locks. It cackled eerily as Faye flung it last into the void.

The eerie cackle joined Morris's screams of anguish as the void exploded into a brilliant funnel of gold. As it stretched towards the sky, all the traces of black and sickness that plagued the environment began to clear, the skies becoming crystal blue and the valleys becoming clean and green again. All the litter and broken memories repaired themselves into their rightful places, some of them even disappearing into thin air.


A delighted grin creeped onto Wizard Rasmodius as he saw the skies above him began clearing up, the rain slowly stopping and the winds eventually dying. The monsters previously tormenting the town began dissipating out of existence. He reached down and hacked off the bonds keeping Faye immobile.

He released a long sigh of relief as he felt the five bodies stirring before him. In no time at all, five pairs of eyes fluttered open. Finding themselves lying on the ground, Abigail, Penny, Sam, Sebastian, and Faye sat up, and the scene of a peaceful dawn hitting Stardew Valley met them along with a gentle breeze.

Wordlessly, they looked at each other and smiled.


A/N: I had NO idea what to call the alter egos, so cue my cruddy naming :) Just one quick chappie left. Hope you still like!