Chapter eight: Return to harmony!
Light's P.O.V.
I hardly notice Mello come in.
"Light?" He speaks.
I turn my head away.
He sighs. "Light don't be like this. Everyone needs your help."
"There's no point." I sigh. "Harmony is gone forever."
Mello's angered glare I can feel quite strongly. He comes over to the edge of my bed. "Light." He says with a growl in his voice. "Don't you remember what you told me?" He says slightly glaring down at me. "That friendship is worth so much it's priceless?" He says.
I sigh. "It's worthless now."
Suddenly he slaps me making me jump.
"Idiot!" He snaps. "Your friends need you now and you are abandoning them!" He snarls as I rub my cheek. He glares right into my eyes. "Remember what you told me when I didn't want to work with Near on anything even though it was important? You told me that if I gave it a try I could find a forever friend and you were right." He says. "You told me to not throw away my friendship." He picks up a framed photo I had knocked down a little earlier and tosses to me making sure I catch it.
I glance to it seeing it's me and the other elements…. Not grey and looking happy.
"Now it's my turn to teach you a lesson I learned during my first while of trying to be friends with Near since you convinced me that it was worth it. Friendship isn't always easy but it's worth fighting for."
I glance up to him then I look back to the picture. "My…. Friends…" I say to myself.
Then I blink and I feel warmth in my body again as the memories of the good times with my friends come back and how everything was before.
I notice, since my hands are holding the picture in the picture frame, that my body gets rid of the grey turning back to normal. I look up to Mello with renewed hope and determination.
He smiles seeing the change.
I put the picture on my bed and I hug Mello. "Thank you." I say to him.
"Well enough of this." He slips out of my arms. "We have more important things to deal with."
I nod and we race downstairs. "I think I have a book that might help us." I find the book easily on dark magic since it's black with clear gem colored writing on the spine saying 'dark magic.'. I flip through the pages until I find it. "Here it is." I begin to read out loud. "Discorded. A condition in which grey appears on the person and turns them opposite of their true selves."
"Well at least we know what's going on now." Mello says.
I read further skipping over more of the description of it until I find the cure. "There is one way to cure them." I say with a smile. "A simple spell to remind them about the friendship they hold dear."
Mello nods determined. "Let's do this!"
I put the book away and we race out to find the others.
L is leaning against a house on the outskirts of town he is eating a strawberry but since he is discorded and the world is being plunged into chaos he seems to reverse the bite when he goes to bite it again but in his view of the world he must have believed he ate it all as he carelessly tosses it away. "So I tried to defeat Discord but none o my so called friends would even try to help." He complains to Watari who is dancing as he has the grey tint to him.
I'm sure that if this was him not discorded he'd have thrown out his back or something.
"L!" I call his name making him slightly jump then turn to me. I stand proud. "I'm here to fight for our friendship!"
L slightly rolls his eyes. "Oh now you want to fight!" He leaps to his feet and pretends to be battling an unseen enemy. "Where were you when I was against Discord!?"
I tackle him pinning him to the ground even as he slightly struggles. "Snap out of it! You are not a lair!" I use my magic bringing my hand up slightly while putting my forehead against his closing my eyes for a moment.
L freezes and once I am sure the spell is cast I back up enough to look at him opening my eyes no longer casting the spell.
He closes one eye and the grey disappears turning him back to normal.
I get off of him.
He sits up bringing a hand to his head. "Wha? What happened?"
"L! you're back to normal!" I say happy that it worked.
"Light!" L gets to his feet then he looks down. "I had a vision of us all fighting. I couldn't handle the truth so I started to lie." He looks up at me hopeful I'll forgive him. "Can you forgive me?"
I smile and move over to hug him. "I already have." I assure him.
He smiles and hugs me back.
We pull apart after a moment.
"Now let's get going and get everyone so we can defeat Discord." I say.
L nods with determination.
We take off to find the others Mello tagging along.
Who first?
I think that Matsuda is the closest.
We head to Matsuda's place and sure enough he's there.
He turns to us with a glare obviously ready to fight if he has to.
We move in and Mello is able to hold him back.
I begin casting the spell and raise my hand to by his head.
He suddenly stops struggling as his eyes widen. He changes from grey to normal and Mello releases him. "Light! L! Mello!" He gasps. "What in the world happened? I'm confused."
"You were turned the opposite of your true self by Discord." Light explains.
Matsuda looks away. "The balloon garden….. They were all laughing at me then a Discord balloon showed up and joined in. After that some of the balloons turned into the other elements faces as they also joined in." He says just loud enough to be heard. "I couldn't take being laughed at so I didn't want anything to do with it."
"It's alright." Light says with a gentle smile. "Discord seems to have used our weaknesses to make us become discorded. You should know we wouldn't laugh at you."
Matsuda perks up with a smile and nods.
"Let's go. We still have more elements to find and change back to normal." Mello says.
We take off heading to find the next person.
Halle is next since her place is the closest.
Luckily she only has Wilbur still and jumps out in front of it to protect it.
Mello races to the boulder to distract her so L or Matsuda can possibly restrain her if needed while I cast the spell.
"No! what are you doing!?" She demands glaring at Mello. "Get away from my gem!"
Matsuda grabs her arms and I cast the spell like I did on Matsuda.
Once done she's released as she turns back to normal.
She pushes the boulder out the front door letting it roll off to wherever. She looks back at us. "Let us never speak of this again." She says.
"We have two more to change back." I take the lead as we head to find the other two. I expected to go find Near but instead we found Matt protecting an old abandoned building probably it's something else in Matt's eyes. "Matt!" I say glad that we found him anyways.
"I will protect Whammy's house from anyone! It will crumble without me!" Matt says in a way that says he won't back down.
"But we need your element. Loyalty." Halle points out.
Matt rolls his eyes. "Pfft. Loyalty? You have got to be kidding me. Tokyo is a disaster. I'm staying at Whammy's where everything is awesome."
"How can he possibly think that building is Whammy's house?" Halle wonders out loud.
"The same way you thought that the boulder was a diamond?" L points out.
Halle looks embarrassed. "I thought we were to never speak of that again." She slightly hisses out.
"Well no time to waste. Let's get going." Mello charges at Matt tackling him.
But Matt shoves the other off of him.
L and the rest of us move in.
Matt turns with a glare.
L grabs him trying to restrain him.
Mello helps out and Matt can't get free.
Matt struggles. "Let me go! I don't need you guys!"
I move in to cast the spell and I do.
Matt turns back to normal like the others and the two release him. He looks worried. "Did we defeat Discord?" He asks slightly panicked.
"Not yet. But we will. There is one element we still need to snap out of being discorded." I explain.
Matt looks at the group. "Near." He says.
I nod. "Yes."
"We may need some ropes. I doubt enough of us will have space to hold him down." Mello points out.
"Oh yeah." Matt nods. "He was trained to fight by the best fighters ever who raised him. The greatest criminals ever A and BB. Only one of them can take down ten people at once armed with guns and the one against them armed with a single knife."
I had seen Near fight to take down bad guys before and he can win pretty easily especially if he wants to or has a reason to fight.
He is a good fighter so we'll need a good way to restrain him. He is a really good fighter but not everyone can win every battle.
We find some rope and head to find Near gathering the rest of the team as we go along filling them in on what we can about being discorded.
Mello peers around in Near's house since it's locked and Mello has the spare key. He comes back out. "He's not here." He says with a slight shrug.
"Without Near we can't use the elements to defeat Discord." I say worriedly. "Where could he be?"
"If he doesn't want to be found. It's close to damn impossible to find him. Well you could actually say it's impossible. Anyone from Whammy's knows that well." Matt explains.
"I hope that's not the case right now." I say as we look for any clues as to where Near could be.
We begin to look around for him.
But with all this chaos and random things that just don't seem right it's starting to get harder and harder to figure out where exactly we are.
"How are we supposed to find Near in all this chaos?" Matt questions.
"We don't have to." Matsuda speaks. "Because he's right there." He points to a roof.
We look and sure enough Near is laying on the roof just chilling.
I brighten that we've found him so we can bring him back to normal but then my face falls when I don't notice a way up.
Near probably got up there and got rid of the way up to not be bugged.
"But how do we get up there?" I question.
The others look around uncertain.
Misa appears suddenly even though she wasn't in our group before. "Why not use one of the ropes you guys grabbed?" She offers an answer.
I look at her wondering how stupid she can be. "If we did that it would just end up hurting him when we pull him down." I point out.
It sinks into her mind and backs off. "Oh."
I look back to Near. "Maybe I can talk him down." I move forward then pause glancing back. "Anyone good at lasso?" I ask. "As soon as I get him down we need to restrain him so I can cast the spell."
L nods grabbing one of the ropes. "As long as someone else can hold the ropes since we'll need at least two then I'm sure I could do it."
I nod and move forward. "Near!"
Near turns to look to me.
"Come on down." I call to him.
Near turns away. "No."
"But we just wanted to talk to you." I try again.
"I said no." He doesn't even seem to care one bit.
I think.
The usual trying to get him down by telling him that we need to talk to him or something won't work so what could?
"Light." Halle speaks and I turn to her. "Near doesn't like to be thought of as a weak helpless child." She tells me.
I smile and nod as the words form in my mind. I turn back to Near determined. "Or you know. You could stay up there like a weak helpless child." I say starting to turn away.
Near reacts this time and turns with a glare. "What did you just say?" He growls.
I turn back to him. "You're looking to be a pretty weak and helpless child right now." I say.
He growls and jumps down landing on his feet.
"Now!" I move out of the way and L throws a lasso.
Near dodges it with a glare. "Forget it!" He growls as he realizes our plan to restrain him. He turns and dashes off.
We chase after him.
"If we don't catch him Discord wins." I say as we continue to run after Near.
L quickly makes another lasso then throws it.
It hits target wrapping around Near.
Mogi takes the rope but Near keeps moving and Mogi is unable to stop it practically being dragged.
I toss L the other rope. "Last rope. Make it count."
And L does.
We official have Near restrained enough that Misa, who ran off finding more rope, gave us the extra two ropes we needed to fully restrain him.
The strongest of our group has to hold the ropes.
Four people as Near struggles.
"Forget it! I don't need any of you!" Near growls.
I move in to cast the spell.
Near glares at me then turns his head pausing in his struggling.
My hand gets close to his head as the spell is cast.
He opens his eyes that widen then he changes back to normal.
The four holding the ropes drop them then we get Near out of the ropes.
Near shakes his head then looks to me with eyes half open. "What happened?" He then moves closer. "Did we defeat Discord?"
We get a group hug glad we are all alright now.
But we cut it short seeing a line of ballerina dogs go by.
"Maybe it's too early for a group hug." I say and the others make sounds of agreement.
We grab the elements and head to look for Discord once we make sure we found them all.
Discord is sitting on an evil throne at the top of the hill watching chaos around him. He laughs then creates a cup to get some cola from a nearby snow cone cloud. He drinks the glass then acts like the actual drink was the cup. He shrugs and tosses it back.
It explodes into flying pigs.
"Discord!" I call.
Discord looks annoyed at us. "Oh. You again?"
"You couldn't separate our friendship for long!" L tells him.
"Oh L don't lie to me." Discord says. "I was the one that made you a lair." He uses magic to grab L's element of harmony stone bring him up to float in front of him. He then does the same with the other elements except me.
I glare at Discord then I use my magic to it's fullest potential to teleport to the others. I use my element magic to create a force field around the elements then I bring them back to the ground.
Where the force field touches the ground it turns back to normal grass.
"You aren't going to win this one Discord!" I say with a smirk.
"Oh gag." Discord says as if it's something disgusting. "Fine. Use your magic of." He raises his hands to do air quotations. "Frenamies." He then leans back to sit tall in the throne. "But make it quick as I am missing some very excellent chaos."
"Ready?" I ask the other elements.
"Wait!" Matsuda says.
We all look.
He's under a cotton candy storm cloud taking in as much of the chocolate milk raining down that he can.
We wait watching him with a 'really?' face.
He quickly rejoins us now done as he looks ready to fight.
The rest of us turn back to Discord ready to fight him.
Discord rolls his eyes at us.
We concentrate to start using the elements magic.
It's actually working this time!
I can feel the elements true power coursing through me and that special link between us when we use the elements is connected.
The elements each begin to let out a glow that feels warm and welcome around us.
Discord blinks in surprise. "What's this?"
One by one we open our eyes that are now softly glowing white with power.
We tilt our heads back and the rainbow spiral appears only to turn after going up a little now as a straight rainbow heading for Discord.
"No!" Discord tries to struggle as he turns to stone from his feet up. He ends up completely stone in the end.
A rainbow goes over the town then it flashes turning everything back to normal.
Us the elements are lowered to the ground as the magic fades.
The unbalanced Discord stone falls onto it's side.
We won! We defeated Discord!
The world is back to normal.
Of course there's a big celebration to celebrate the defeat of Discord.
It's nice and even when things get tough true friends can make it through together.
The end.