Ms. Abadeer had grown very weak. It was not hard for Marshall to see. He said nothing though knowing she did not want to be pitied even on her death bed. He respected her and still loved her. She had just made herself harder to love over the years. He had learned young that the world was not a nice place or by any means fair. He knew what he had gone through was nothing compared to what she had lived through.
He came in and sat by her bedside bed. He rubbed his stomach remembering what it use to be like with them. She use to be very happy. She smiled no matter what happened to her. She the one who took him in and raised him as her own. Then she left him but she came back. She came back different but she still came back. Everyone else left him in this world. She was the only one that didn't leave him behind. She didn't give up on him so he tried his hardest not to give up on her.
She coughed and opened her eyes. "What are you doing here?" She asked.
"Remembering you in all your glory days." He said rubbing his baby.
"How is the child?" She asked.
"Doing fine now." He said smiling down at his belly.
She looked at him for a while. "I just realized I have never told you what happened to me." She said looking up at the ceiling.
"Well we never really had any heart to heart talks." He said smirking.
"I want to tell you about me before I die. I have never told a soul but I should have. Even if no one would have believed me." She said chuckling dryly.
He did not say anything so she continued.
"No matter what I went through or what happened to me I never forgot. I never forgot what it was like before the nuclear bomb. And I will never forget the war that put me where I am today. Marshall there are some people who chose to bury their sin. However somethings can't be swept under the wrong and forgotten. I never want it to be forgotten that it wasn't my choice to become who I am today. They I was forced to become a monster." She said seething. Her eyes glowed red but she slowly released a breath.
"The day everything went changed was supposed to be my day. It was my special day."
Lucy Macon had just become Lucy Abadeer. She walked down the aisle hand and hand with Jason Abadeer her husband. They kissed right before stepping outside. He picked her up bridle style twirling her around. He wanted to carry her to the car despite her protests. They were happy, they were young, they were in love, and they were more married. This day couldn't have been any more perfect for her.
No one saw the approaching dot in the sky. No one heard the sirens that had just barely began to ring out. And no one saw the blinding white light till it was too late.
She awoke back in the church. It was a giant rumble pile now. The sirens were going all around. She couldn't move and everything hurt. She was sure almost everything was broken. She could only see in one direction. Something had moved in the corner of her eye but she couldn't see it. She could only see look at the huge crack in the floor with smoke flowing out.
Then something flew out of the crack. It hovered over the hole flapping its large wings. Its red eyes scanned the room before landing on her. It opened its jaws revealing it's dagger like teeth. It smiled at her running its tongue over its teeth. Whatever she saw earlier out the corner of her eye moved again. She blinked and the creature had moved and grabbed what moved. It held Jason up by his head. She tried to move, shout, scream, do something but her body wouldn't listen. She could only look on as it sunk its teeth in his neck. Jason's eyes rolled back in his head and then his body was falling. As it fell she saw that damned smile again only this time it was bloody. It licked is lips moving towards her. She could only lay there yelling with her eyes for it to stay back. She closed her eyes when it reached out for her. Then she felt a liquid in her face. She opened her eyes to see an arm sticking out of its stomach. As it looked down at the intrusion teeth clamped siren on its neck ripping its head off. When the body fell her eyes stared at Jason.
He had red eyes and fangs just like the creature. He looked at her the same way the creature between them did. However before he could get to her the floor beneath her crumbled away and she fell. She watched he leave as she fell. Then she watched the light leave. She thought she was going to stay falling forever so she closed her eyes just as her body crashed into something.
When she came back to there was a glowing red light in front of her. Something was telling her to reach for it. The pain in her body had become so much worse as she fought to keep her eyes open. Even so she used her last bit of strength to reach for it. "Just make the pain stop." She thought before passing out.
When she woke up she looked around in the darkness. What happened she thought as she held her head in her hands. The events from hours ago came rushing back. She just sat there trying to process it all.
"I healed you." A voice said.
"Who's there?" She asked frantically looking around. There was a faint glow of red from her neck. She looked down at the glowing amulet around her neck. She held it looking at it and tried pulling it off bit it would not budge.
That's when it spoke again. "I healed your body." It glowed a little brighter.
"How are you even doing this it isn't possible?"
"Healing you or talking to you."
She looked at herself a little closer. She was no longer in her bloody wedding dress. She was wearing a suit and there was a hat on her head. Ignoring the question she asked "Did you dress me to?"
"The attire comes with wearing me. It is kind of like armor in a way."
"Where am I?" she asked standing up.
"You are in my temple."
"Hmm your temple. What are toy called?"
"Your kind has given me many names over the years. I was never given a true name so call me what you want."
"So what happens now?" She asked kicking a rock.
"You are handling this better than the others that have worn me."
"Truthfully I don't know what to do or how to act right now. My life has done a complete one eighty in only a couple of hours. Maybe when you tell me everything I will react differently."
"Very well. As of right now our next step would be to go to the surface. Right now you are still very much human. Soon enough though they will change and you will be a demon. You will still be yourself just a demon though. I am pure evil. I was made a long time ago. I was created to destroy all life. I have to consume souls to survive. That's where you come in. You will be doing it for me. You seem to be a true wearer also. There has only been one other such as yourself. If you were not than my powers would have already over taken you."
Lucy just didn't know what to do. She was truly at a lost.
"Would you like me to show you what is happening on the surface?"
"Can you show me Jason?"
"As you wish."
A screen popped up in front of her. There was Jason covered in blood running down what was left of the street. He was throwing things and attacking humans. He crashed through the windshield of a school bus. The children screamed and he laughed like a mad man. She looked on in horror as he killed them all. She started crying not being able to look away. They wasn't her Jason. That was a monster her Jason died in what was left of the church.
This wasn't supposed to be her life. This is a nightmare and she would wake up at any moment. Her sobs became louder as realization sat in. The image faded. You can't wake up when you're already awake. Lucy just continue to cry in the faint glow of the temple.
"How do I get you souls again?" Lucy asked as she walked through a burning town.
"You just open your mouth and suck. The soul will flow into your mouth."
"Does whatever I get it from need to be alive?"
"Yes."
A bird flew above her and she opened her mouth and sucked. Sure enough the soul flew in. She experienced such a rush. Hey head felt like it was spinning. She grabbed it stumbling a little.
"Whoa. Will it be like that all of the time?"
"Yes but sometimes you will be so caught up in what you are doing that you won't feel it."
"Well this might be fun with the mild high." She said spinning an axe she picked up a while back. She thought she needed a weapon and it just do happened to be sticking out of a street light.
The amulet glowed as Lucy whistled continuing their walk.
Lucy had discovered a different part of the world on one of her travels. She hadn't been out in years because Marshall was too young to stay by himself. It looked organized and actually put together unlike the rest of the world. She walked into a building following the voices she heard.
"Who are you and what do you want?" A being made of fire and her.
"I am Lucy Abadeer and I want to join your little...group." She said walking out of the shadows.
"Why? What could you possibly gain?" A pink man asked her.
"What is there to gain? I assure you I have nothing I want to gain. I have walked this earth for many years. I have watched the humans take to the skies and escape. I have seen the beast rise up. And I'm still looking at this planet once called earth turn into something else. Not once though have I ever came across anything such as yourselves. It is really interesting. I merely wish to be a part of whatever this is and see how it turns out. Even if you told me no you would be still be stuck with me. I don't plan on going anywhere soon." She said looking around the room. A fire being, pink man, goblin, and vampire looked back at her.
"Very well we will meet back here again in one week." The goblin said.
Everyone left but two. It was just her and the vampire. "Jason." Is all she said stepping a little closer.
He regarded her before shape shifting into a bat. He flew out the window and she watched him go. She sighed and opened a portal going through it.
The mushroom war had started and it was brutal. Not only were they secretly fighting themselves for land but also the mindless demons. Everyone but Lucy had an army on her side. She went into the battle field alone. It wasn't as bad as it seemed she handled herself quite well. There was only a slip up from time to time like today.
"I thought you said this suit was like armor!" Lucy yelled as she collapsed on to the couch from the portal.
"If you would have just sucked their souls instead of choosing to fight them all! Then you wouldn't even be like this." The amulet yelled back glowing.
"You and I both know you were full dammit!"
"Yes but you could have transformed also."
"You know I can't. It takes too much from me and I barely have control if I use it for too long."
"Mom!" Marshall yelled running to her.
"Hey there Mar." She said forcing a smile for him.
"Mom what happened? Are you okay?" He asked looking concerned eyes going over the injuries.
"I'm fine." She said as the amulet glowed healing her injuries. "See?"
He hugged her tight. "You promised you would be more careful with whatever you are doing."
"I'm sorry." She said ruffling his hair. She got up and went into her room to rest before she had to go back.
The war was taking its toll on Lucy. She fought the hardest out of everyone. She felt since she didn't have anyone then she should prove herself. She saw the others with their soldiers number decreasing. She didn't have anybody dying at her side so she could not go down never left the enemy get away because they would return in greater numbers.
The amulet knew Lucy wouldn't last much longer if she continued on like this. In its entire existence it has never been used for anything like Lucy had. It had never been used for anything but selfish reasons. She hasn't even unlocked some of its power.
She was getting ready to go back into a battle. When she opened the portal it stopped her. "Lucy wait I can't let you keep going out there like this. I can only heal so much. You're going to end up getting to many wounds for me to heal in time."
"Then what do you suppose I do then? Hmmm just sit back and see how fat they make it till they all die?" She asked through her teeth.
"No you fool. I'm going to help you open some of my power." It said. It shot a red beam into the portal and it swirled red.
"What did you just do?"
"You'll see just step through it."
She did as she was told and came out floating in the air. She looked around at what looked like a ruined city. She landed on a cliff looking out over a river of fire. "Where are we?" She asked looking around still.
"The underworld."
"And why are we here when we should be on the surface fighting." She seethed turning around and opening a portal.
"Will you stop and shut up! I'm trying to help you and you won't even give me a chance! Dammit Lucy your body can't take much more! Your soul may be strong but a body is a body and yours is wearing thin. I can only repair something so much before even my seams break. Believe it or not Lucy but I care if you do die. You are the only one that hasn't abused me or treated me as just an object since I have been made. I do not know why but we are not a hundred percent connected yet even after all these years. You are still mostly human and I can't change that." The amulet said trying to make her understand. The portal disappeared as silence washed over them.
"Alright what do I have to do?" She said putting her hands in her pockets.
The amulet glowed. "Ok I'm going to show you how to channel my power after you absorb souls. Then how to merge power into the strikes of the axe. I'm also going to show you how to make a force field over your body and deflect attacks. You do not have to rush learning this I control time done here."
She sighed and hesitated before speaking. "I'm sorry Amu for being difficult and always throwing us in danger."
"It's alright you've always been a stubborn imbecile." She laughed rocking on her hills. "But really I am kind of happy we are not fully connected. If we were then you would be a vessel of pure evil. You would not be the Lucy you are today."
She smiled holding the amulet. "Getting soft on me now Amu."
The amulet just glowed as she looked back over the underworld.
"The demons are still out of control. We don't even dent their numbers. We can't let them continue to live outside our borders." The Fire King said banging his fist on the table.
"What do you suppose we do then?" The Candy King asked.
"We have to wipe them all out or get rid of them somehow." The Goblin King said.
"And how do you suppose we do that." The Candy king asked exhausted with this conversation.
"Lucy and with this." The vampire king said placing a book on the table. "This book tells of the one true wearer of the amulet around her neck. If we summon the creator then we can command him to poses her mind. He can unlock the true power of the amulet and drive the demons back underground."
"Hmm how long have you had this idea?" The Goblin King asked.
"For some time now." The vampire king said.
"And you are just now bringing it up." The Fire King said.
"I was not completely sure about it yet." The vampire king said.
"Why do we have to sacrifice Lucy? Can't we do it without her?" The Candy king asked.
"Unfortunately no that is why I was hesitant. She can't remove the amulet." The vampire king sighed.
The room grew quiet as they each processed the information. They had gone through every other option. It was simple nothing was working. Their people were either dying in battle or of starvation.
A figure stepped out of the shadows and they all jumped weapons ready. They turned to look at Lucy. The amulet glowed as she scowled at them all. She slashed the table in half. "So this is what I get after fighting beside you all?"
"Lucy-" The Candy king started but she cut him off.
"All of you jumped on board this idea not even considering me other than a pon! Just the quickest way to make your lives easier! Well what about mine! I didn't ask for any of this!" She yelled as she looked around at them. Her eyes fell on Jason.
"Lucy please. It is best fire all of us this way. You won't be dying." He said looking away.
"I won't be dying?! That's how you fucking put it! Why the fuck would I ever say yes with that being the only good thing out of this?! And the best for who? You all are not strong enough so I pick up the slack. If it was not for me there would be no one in any of your lands! Yet all of you choice to get rid of me in the end!" She seethed opening a portal. "I'll be waiting." Then she was gone. She stepped through the portal crying. Marshall rushed to her side and she hugged him crying harder. She made him pack anything and everything he could of his or whatever he wanted. He kept asking where they were going but she only told him to keep packing. Once he was done she took him to a cave by the sea.
"Mar." She said calling him over to her. "You have to live here for a while. For how long I do not know." He was going to interrupt her but she held up her hand silencing him. "No I can't live here with you right now. It is safer for you this way. Something bad is going to happen soon and I don't want you to end up hurt." He started crying and she wiped away his tears. "Hey now none of that mobsters don't cry." She said smiling.
"But you still cry." He whimpered. She smiled kissing his forehead. "Because I am not a monster." she said. "I fight the monsters."
"I love you mother." He said hugging her.
"I love you to Marshall Lee." She said leaving.
"What do you plan to do?" Amu asked her.
"What can I do besides wait?" She said closing her eyes. "Wake me when it has started. I know you will be able to know. It is your creator after all."
It had been a couple days since that day but they were ready. The decision was basically already made for them.
"What do we have to do?" Asked the goblin king.
"First each of you need to piece of jewelry. It doesn't matter which. They all have jewels that will make you immune to him." The vampire king said as he started to draw symbols on the floor. He grabbed the book and stepped in front of the symbols. He looked back to check if everyone was ready. They all nodded and he proceeded. "I call out to the Lich King. Here my voice and rise from your enteral slumber and come forth."
A green beam shot out from the portal and the light was covered in a blinding light. When the light died down a clothed skeleton with horns was staring at them. "Why have you awoken me?" The Lich King asked looking at the vampire king.
"It has started." Amu said waking Lucy.
She opened her eyes sighing deeply. "Is there anything at all I can do?"
"I'm not sure. It is my creator so we may all be in trouble."
The vampire was going to speak but the Lich held up his hand. "I know the reason why I am here already. My question is for why you have turned to me. I am death itself. You seek help from your own doom." He said amused.
"At the end of this you will not have one enemy but two. I do not mean to come off as having compassion for this woman I am about to destroy. I assure you it is far from it and I am honest. Revenge is something I cherish. It is fair warning sort of a thank you for waking me up. It is always good to see death on the horizon." He said emitting a green flame off his body. "Anyway I shall do what I was summoned for." And he closed his eyes.
"So you are the new wearer of my amulet." A voice said.
Lucy jumped to her feet pulling out her axe. The axe glowed red as she turned in a circle looking around.
"Hmm and it looks like you have not even fully unlocked its power. What's even more interesting is you're still mostly human. Somehow you have managed to live for so long. You are interesting indeed girl." The voice said.
"Where are you?" She growled out. There was a chuckle and a green light. She swung out only slicing air.
"Dear child that simple won't die."
She suddenly couldn't control her body anymore. She struggled in vein.
"There is no since of struggling you're not going anywhere." The Lich King said appearing in front of her. She scowled at him. "What nothing? No reaction?"
"Amu has told me all about."
"That's cute you've grown attached but it won't be for much longer." He said walking around her. It grew quiet as kept walking.
"Why are you doing this to me? I didn't ask for this. My life wasn't supposed to be like this." She said finally speaking up.
"Your life ended long ago when you fell into the temple. You were born again for this. Every monster has a story yours just happens to be the saddest and most undeserving." He said eyeing her.
"No! No I am not and will never be a monster." She yelled on the brink of tears.
He walked over and kneeled down in front of her. A flame came from the tip of his finger. He started to draw symbols on her forehead. "Dear child even the devil himself may cry. When I leave you will be stripped of your humanity. The Devil savor they prayed from. The slayer they wished thru never needed for battle. The embodiment of evil." He drew a symbol on the amulet and stood up releasing her. "I'm only opening the door. I'm not the final blow." A screen appeared in front of them.
There stood the Vampire, Fire, Candy and Goblin King standing on a hill near the sea and cave. It was the cave where she had left Marshall.
"I don't think this is a good idea." The Goblin King said.
"This will get her on board the idea. She will see our side of view after this." The Fire King said.
"I will not be a part of this." The Candy king said.
"And yet you are here. You are a part of this as much as we are." The vampire king said. He waved his hand and a demon fell out of the sky. It looked around till it saw the cave and swam towards it. Inside Marshall was sleeping as the demon entered the cave.
"No." Lucy whispered.
"You know what you must do." The Lich King said disappearing.
"No" she whispered again as the beast crept closer to him.
"No" She said through clenched teeth. A shaking hand clutched the amulet. It glowed bright red as tears rolled down her face. She stood gripping it tighter.
"Lucy." Amu said as the image disappeared. She crushed Amu in her hand.
"I am sorry."
Her blood mixed with the black liquid leaking out of the crushed amulet. She did not scream as the engulfed her body and she faded into black. A light shot through the darkness. Her hand came out of the beam and the axe landed in it. She swung it out and the light broke a long the darkness. Her blood red eyes reflecting of the shards.
She stood floating above the underworld. She transformed and screamed towards the heavens. A portal and opened demons started raining in. They ran around like mindless fools looking for a way out. Some tried jumping on the other demons to get back out.
"No one leaves the Night O'Sphere!" Lucy yelled charging into the crowd. She wore a smile as she danced through the raining bodies slicing and soul sucking.
The Lich laughed from where he floated above. "You are truly interesting child. This thrown is all yours for the taking. Make them regret letting you reign." He said enjoying the bloodshed beneath him.
The Lich flames died down and the four kings stood. He stepped out of symbols and walked around the shocked paralyzed bodies. "I will not kill you today. However I shall take my leave." He said disappearing into green flames.
They all fell forward catching themselves.
"Dammit! Another problem to take care! I thought you had him under your control!" The Fire King yelled at the Vampire king.
The vampire king said nothing as he stared at a bloody Lucy sitting on the table. The other kings turned to look at with fear in their eyes.
"Hello boys." She smirked showing off her new teeth. She took of her hat holding it as she bowed. "I must thank you for the new look." She said adjusting her bloody suit. "I admit at first I didn't think I would be into too but hey it just feels right."
"Now onto the good news. He has made it where I can't kill you. Which is a shame because believe me when I say I am dying to thank you all properly. I will never stop trying to kill you all. Mercy just doesn't seem to be in my line of work anymore." She laughed looking at their horrified faces. "I also am trapped to the underworld now. Which I have named the Night O'Sphere. It has a certain ring to it don't you think."
She heard sigh of release and in the blink of an eye the Fire King was being held off the ground by his throat. "Do not get to happy." She growled throwing him against the wall. "The bad news for you all anyway is I can leave every hundred years."
She turned to the vampire king. "Oh Jason even now that I'm a monster like you. You won't even love me." She said knocking him back into the wall.
"Well what do we have here?" She asked holding a bottle with a clear liquid. The other three eyes moved back and between her and the vampire king. "You want to forget your sins." She said her smirk growing. "No you want to forget the sin you have committed against me." She threw her head back shaking with uncontrollable laughter. She threw the bottle back into his hands turning around.
"Go ahead and forget that you're all the real monsters here. I will never forget your enteral crime." She said without looking back. She opened a portal and readied her axe. Her eyes sparkled and a hellish smile spread across her face as screams echoed through the portal. Then she was gone.
A Hundred Years later
Lucy stood in the entrance of a cave. She was looking down at an amulet in her hand. "I miss when you could talk to me Amu. I'm alone now." She said waiting for it glow. When it did not she sighed and put it in her pocket.
She looked back into the cave sighing again. She straightened up and put one foot in front of the other. As she got closer she heard someone singing.
Then she saw Marshall floating and singing. "And I drink a little more than recommended, this world ain't exactly what my heart expected-"
"Maybe something's wrong with me, but ooooh oh at least I'm free" Lucy's voice sang out.
He quickly flipped up right staring at her. She had picked up a poster that said The Scream Kings. She let it sail back to the floor as she turned back to him. She smiled at him. "Long time no see Marshall Lee the Vampire King."
He crashed into her sending them to the floor hugging her tight. He started crying into her shoulder squeezing her tighter. She smiled holding them up as she petted his head.
"Mom."
Marshall sat there looking at her. He noticed he was crying and wiped them away. Taking her hand he kissed it. "I love you mom." He said.
Gumball and the group had gotten there when her story had started. Fionna and Simone rushed in after they heard Marshall say he loved her. Gumball just stood there frozen. He turned and looked at the vampire king.
"I did not drink it." The vampire king said. "Someone had to carry the sin and I at least owed my wife that one last thing."
Marshall said nothing to Gumball as the two girls walked him out of the room. The vampire king went and sat on her bed.
"Lucy"
"Jason"
"It is time I have brought the case." He said opening a black box."
She reached up and pulled the amulet off. "Good bye Amu" She said.
The amulet glowed. "Good bye Lucy."
She smiled closing the case. Her body began to turn black. "I never stopped loving you."
"I know."
She smiled one last time before she was gone. He got up and walked back out the door where Gumball still stood.
"Our sins run deep but hers was the deepest. We destroyed a life and turned her into a monster. I chose to remember because I betrayed her more than anyone else. I have no right to admit this anymore but I love her and so I will carry the guilt of having killed her for however I live. It is my punishment." He said looking at him. "This is the only thing that I erased. Everything else is still there and already the past. What's done is done Candy King." He said gripping his shoulder.
Since their return Gumball said nothing to Marshall. He kept his distance with his mind heavy. Marshall couldn't take it. There was no way he was going to bed alone.
"Come to bed Gumball" Marshall said to him. Gumball closed the balcony doors and sat on the edge of the bed. "Marshall I'm sorry about your mother."
"My mother died a long time ago." Marshall deadpanned. It was quiet he spoke again. "The same goes for Lucy. She died a while ago but somehow she came back." He said crying.
Gumball got under the covers and hesitated before pulling him into his arms. He stroked his hair and rubbed his back till he calmed down.
"Did you drank it?"
"Yes."
There was a long pause as Marshall laid there processing it. "Gumball." He said as he turned away from the prince still in his arms and pushed back into his hold.
"It's a girl."