Chapter 8: The True Eternal sparkle?
A bit after that we head over to the farm area in town. From how far this tower sounded we would need something to ride on to get there. We found a man selling four horses. Yes only four. Yes I know there five of us! Stop giving me that look! "Hmm…the price sounds good…" Jet whispered crossing his arms.
"But there only four horses and five of us…" Gallows added in. "That fine! Sara can ride with me!" Virginia added in with a smile. "Wait…I can what..?" I asked giving Virginia a glare. "You heard me!" she ran over to the man selling the horses. I shook my head watching Virginia hands over 2,000 gella to the man.
"She sure doesn't listen…" Jet whispered I nodded to him. "You sure have that right…" Jet gave me a small grin. Soon after that Virginia ran back over toward us. "He said the horses would be outside of town waiting…" Virginia said catching her breath. "Well before we head for the tower we should just double check are items…" Clive said checking the group items bag.
He nodded to us. Are items were fine. With that we left town to get on are horses. All of us hopping into are horses. And I hop into Virginia's horse riding with her. Virginia looked back to the others. "Let's get going!" she yelled starting southwest with the boys following behind her on they're horses. We had been riding for close to 20 minutes now. "Are we they're let?" Gallows asked. So he a prevent…a drunk and a cry baby…? "No stop asking!" jet yelled toward gallows.
Two minutes later…"Are we there now…?" Jet glared slowly toward him. "What..?" Gallows asked. "You just asked that two minutes ago…" I whispered glaring toward gallows as well. Gallows slowly started to ride closer. "Why did you miss hearing my voice that quickly…?" I gave him a look like he was crazy.
As he tried to move his horse even closer jet quickly got in the middle of the horses. I looked surprised seeing him doing this. Jet glared toward him. I could hear him growling toward gallows as well. I looked confused watching him. Gallows grinned toward jet. "Hey now…try any harder and she may find something out…" Jet quickly blinked looking over to me.
I kept looking lost at him. I watch his face turn a bit red. After that he quickly turned away pulling gallows' horse away as he moved. A bit after that we got to the tower called 'Ka Dingel.' We got off of are horses then headed inside of the tower.
When we enter; we found a huge hall way standing in front of us. "We don't know really what will happen here…" Virginia started to say. We all looked toward her. "So, let's be carefully." We all nodded and started up some small stairs into the next room.
In this room we had to move blocks to make a bridge. Before Virginia could ask who would do so. Jet jumped down starting to move them into place. I just stood there silencely watching; but I could hear Virginia giggling about something. It never good to hear her giggle; "what…?" I whispered looking over to her.
"Well…" Virginia started to say. Her voice quickly changed to a whisper. "Doesn't jet have a nice butt..?" I gave her a look like she was crazy. But I could feel my face turning red at the same time. "I…I don't know what you're talking about…!" I yelled. Then the others turned to look at me and Virginia. I could feel jet's eyes looking as well.
I growled to my self. Why the hell did she have to do that! Was she trying to put ideas into my head? Wait…what am I saying? I don't even like him that way! "What was that about…?" Gallows asked grinning toward me and Virginia. "Well…" Virginia started to say. "It's done…" we all looked confused hearing that. We looked toward jet to find the bridge was made.
I quickly ran across it. "Good timing…" I whispered to him with a smile. I saw a bit of red on his face. "Whatever…" he whispered under his breathe. I grabbed jet's arm and quickly ran into the next room. "Sara…!" Virginia yelled running after me. With gallows and Clive close behind her.
In the next room we head up some stairs. Well it is a tower after all. In the next room Virginia somehow tripped over a switch that was on the ground. How you could trip over it…I don't even want to know. "Opps..!" Virginia yelled falling into it landing on her butt. But to are surprised a platform came down. "For one time…you did a good opps…" I whispered helping Virginia to her feet.
"We will have to turn the wheel to go up…" "But only two can go at a time…" I whispered. Then I could feel Virginia grinning. She was up to something. And normally that never a good thing; "well then…why don't you and jet go first…?" I glared at her. See! Her grinning is bad! Very bad! "Aww…! But I want to go with her…!" Gallows said sounding like he was crying.
As long as I'm not with gallows then I'm happy. "Let's get this over with…" I heard jet whispered. I slowly nodded then us two step into the platform. I could hear Virginia giggling as jet started to turn the wheel. The platform started moving up we both didn't say a word the whole time.
I'm sure he is as angry as I was by what Virginia did. We then step over to the next platform Virginia yelled up to us. "Go on ahead we will meet you guys by the door away." I nodded to jet. He nodded in return. We when up two more platforms; Then we saw the door way a bit in front of us. So we waited by it. Watching the other three having trouble with the platforms; I felt jet step a bit closer but he didn't say a word.
Soon after that Virginia and the others finally got to us. "Finally…" Virginia whispered with a sigh I rolled my eyes. It pretty sad to think I am her cousin sometimes. "Well…let's move on!" Virginia yelled heading into the door way. I watched the boys shake they're head then started after her. I was close behind them. Then we head up more stairs in the next room. Remember it's called a tower for a reason!
The next room had a huge open area. I started to get a bad feeling as soon as we enter as did the boys. The only person who didn't was Virginia. As Virginia started toward the stairs in front of us a monster appeared I quickly pulled Virginia out of the way. I fired some shots at the monster but they bounced right off.
"He has strong defense…!" I yelled looking back to them. As I did the monster came toward me. "Look out!" I heard one of them yell. I looked in front of me to find the monster's hand about to hit me. I felt like I was frozen and couldn't move. Then I felt someone pull on my arm, pulling me out of the way of the monster's hand.
Then I heard gun shots. I quickly looked to my right side. IT was jet! "Let's us take care of this…" He whispered. I watched Virginia, Gallows and Clive run up to his side. "If…are arms don't do the damages…needs then we will turn to the guardians…magic…" Clive whispered. They nodded to each other. I watched them run toward the monsters.
Virginia, Jet, Gallows shot at the monster getting no damage done. Then Clive casted Fragile on it lowering its defense. But lowering his defense didn't help at all. Next turn jet cast a wind spell called vortex on it. Gallows casted heal on Virginia. And Clive cast a non-element spell called Devastate on the monster. The only spell that did real damage was Clive's non-element one. SO after rounds of Clive casting that spell the monster when down. "Hmm…he was strong to all magic aside from non-element…spell…" Clive whispered placing a hand under his chin.
Virginia nodded to Clive. "Oh…! Sara!" I watched her quickly turn to me. "Are you alright…?" I slowly nodded to her. "Y-yes. I'm fine…" I whispered looking toward jet. He was looking toward the stairs in front of us. "Well anyways…we should keep moving…" we all nodded to Virginia. I think I was more surprised jet pulled me out of the way then anything.
After that we head up the three stairs and into the next room. They're three nets in this one. And we could see the door on the far side from the nets. We all jumped into the nets slowly moved across them. One small mess up and down we go. I watched Virginia, Clive and gallows make it across the first one. Then they started into the second net.
Me on the other hand was having trouble on the first net; climbing across this thing was no cake walk! I felt my hand losing hold on the net. I then let out a small scream as I felt an arm go around me. I blinked looking up to find jet there. Saving me again? Did I really look that hopeless? "Grab back on…!" I heard him yell. I quickly did so. But his arm was still around me.
"Umm…I'm alright now…" I watched him quickly remove his arm. "And…thanks jet…" I whispered as I finally got off of the first net. I could hear jet whisper 'whatever' under his breath again. After a bit we finally finished the stupid nets. Yes, they are stupid nets! You heard me! "You alright?" Virginia asked me. As my self and jet got up to the door way.
I nodded. "Yes, no worries thanks to jets help…" I whispered a grin appear on Virginia's face. I really shouldn't have said that. "Oh…?" Virginia said grinning toward jet. "It wasn't a big deal…" Jet said with a shrug. Gallows let out a laugh putting an arm over jet's shoulder. "Don't lie boy, you did like saving her, didn't you?" Gallows asked.
Before I knew it; I heard gallows let a yell out. I turn to take a look. Gallows was holding his head. And jet had his boomerang in his hand. From the look of it. Jet had thrown his boomerang at gallows and it had hit him over the head. "What the hell did you do that for?" gallows yelled rubbing the top of his head.
"Because you can't keep your mouth shut…" Jet said turning away from gallows. "What was that?" gallows yelled but Virginia quickly broken the two up. "Stop it! Both of you!" Virginia started saying. "We don't have time for this! We should keep moving!" Virginia quickly head into the next room. I watched gallows and jet glare toward each other before following the leader.
"Boys…" I whispered. I could hear Clive laughing a bit. "Well…we should move on as well…" I nodded to him and followed; we when up more stairs in the next room. The room after that had a candle puzzle. You had to put the candles out in the right way to make it to the door. And sadly only one person had the tool to do so. The person being gallows with his freezer doll; so we stood there waiting on the platform.
But we all knew this could take sometime. But to are surprise he did it pretty quickly. He put the first candle out first then the second one. But it did take him ten minutes. "See no problem…!" gallows said with a grin. I rolled my eyes at him. "Can we just move on…?" I asked Virginia. She nodded we ran on a head of the boys. "Hey!" gallows yelled.
Clive and Jet shook they're heads. The boys then started after us up some more stairs. The next room after we got to the middle; the room started to shake. "Is everyone all right?" Virginia asked looking around. The boys looked pretty worried from the shaking. "Yes, we seem to be fine…but…" we all looked up ward the ceiling. "What's going on up there?" Gallows asked.
"Heh…Our situation never seems to get any better." Jet said placing a hand on top of his head. After that we step into an elevation in front of us then pushed a button and we slowly started toward the top of the tower. When we got to the top we found Maya's group being attacked by Janus'. "Maya!" Virginia yelled to her. A grin appeared on Janus' face.
"Heh heh…looks like the stage is set…" Janus said looking toward us. He slowly pointed toward us. "The Schroedingers have the Crio Shield in their possession…which means you must have the Andro shield, correct?" "Now hand it over and I just might spare their lives." With that Maya jumped into her knees.
"Don't do it! They're not just after it for the money…The eternal sparkle is used to…" But before she could finish a gun shot was fired toward her. "Ugh…!" Maya whispered holding her stomach. "I'm trying to work efficient here." Janus whispered holding his arm pointed toward Maya. Without a word Virginia walked up to Janus and hand over the shield.
He started up laughing as soon as she did. "Hahahaha…HA HA HA HA HA HAH HAH!" "All three shields are now mine…All mine!" "Do you all believe that the eternal sparkle will grant unlimited power to the one who attains it?" "Wouldn't you like to see what the 'spear that destroys all life' can really do?" Janus asked still laughing. Virginia slowly back away from him, watching him. Something didn't feel right.
"B-boss what's gotten into you?" Dario asked. "You ain't gonna blow off our mission, are you?" Romero asked as well. "Heh…once you're dead…It's all over..." "Just like the late Lucio…He's not one of us anymore…He's nothing…" "Wouldn't you agree..? I've been giving this a lot of thought lately…how can one live forever without decaying? But the thing is…eternal life doesn't exist. There's no such thing as immortality." Janus held the shields in front of him.
"That's why I've chosen a different approach in which to live on forever. To attain a force…a power so strong, everybody will remember me for it." "I'm not going out as an average drifter. I will over come the boundary of time and continue to exist within people's memories!" "With this power, I shall become the absolute ruler and engrave my name in history forever!"
"Andro, Crio, Hieraco! The time of awakening has come! Grant me the eternal sparkle!" Janus yelled holding the three shields up into the air. The clouds in the sky started to turn dark. Then I felt it. A great darkness power coming toward us; I quickly drop to me knees. "Ugh…!" I watched the three boys turn to me. "Sara?" Jet asked questionly.
"D-Darkness…is coming this way…" I whispered trying not to fall from my knees. A magic circle appeared in front of Janus. And a huge wind started out of no where. "Why did you hand over the shield?" Maya yelled to Virginia. "He would've killed you! And…and…I wanted to believe I was doing the right thing! I wanted to hold true to my beliefs!" Virginia yelled back to Maya.
The wind started to slow down a bit. But I Felt like I couldn't breath; "Look!" Maya yelled to Virginia pointing toward Janus. A weird sphere was slowly coming toward Janus. "Ungh…!" I heard jet yelled falling into his knees. He felt that darkness now too. "What is this pressure?" Clive asked feeling the darkness as well. "It almost feels as it…" Virginia started to say.
"The mediums are trembling in fear…?" Gallows asked. "F-from that sphere…" I yelled feeling weaken. "That's the 'eternal sparkle's' true form…A symbol of power from Ancient folklore—an Artifact of the demons…" Maya said starting toward the sphere. "True form…?" Virginia asked. "Its blue flame continues to sparkle in the eternal darkness. I hear that's how it got its name. But that light feeds off the souls of others and continues to glow…It's a symbol of death…The Notorious Lance that violates life…The dark spear…!" Maya yelled.
"That's a spear? That thing…?" Virginia asked still looking toward the sphere. "I guess so…and all this time I thought the eternal sparkle was some kind of gem of Precious metal…" Janus slowly started to hold his hand up toward the sphere. "You said there was neither good nor evil here, right?" Virginia asked looking over to Maya. Maya slowly turn her head toward Virginia. "But all I feel is a dark and evil presence…" Maya shook her head at Virginia.
"Then what do you suggest we do?" Summon a superhero to kick his butt? Tell mw where we can find this defender of Justice!" Virginia quickly stood up. "I'm sure there's a defender of Justice out there somewhere. If not, then…I'll become the superhero!" She yelled holding her hands over her arms. The sphere started to move down closer to Janus. But before Janus could touch it; Virginia shot it away.
He quickly turned around pointing his arms toward Virginia. "I ran into the wasteland knowing little, but I still considered myself a drifter. Becoming a drifter had always been my dream…A drifter that would help people in need, and bring down evil, but that just wasn't that case…" Virginia said holding her arms pointed toward Janus. "The actions of a drifter speak neither good nor evil…This misconception almost robbed me of the will to fly…But Even so I still want to be a drifter!" I smiled listening to her.
"I don't care if there's no Justice…That's something I'll have to find on my own as I traverse the wasteland!" "Finding Justice is my goal and is what keeps me going. I have found my answer!" "I don't want to see sad memories engraved in people's hearts anymore!" The boys quickly ran behind Virginia.
A grin appeared on Janus' face again. "So…when I stab you with this bayonet how loud will you scream?" Janus asked with a grin. Virginia and the boys ran toward him. After some rounds of shooting him then some Gatlings on him. He finally fell into his knees. The tower started to shake like crazy.
"Dammit…I was so Close…I le tit slip away from my hands…" "Heh heh heh…but it's not over yet. There's still much I want to do. I can't let it end here…I'm not satisfied!" with that the ground under Janus gave in. Ending his life just like that; soon after we head back inside the tower with Maya's group. "I see you found an answer. But it's really not…that was just your declaration or wanting to find an answer." A grin slowly appeared on Maya's face.
"In any case, you sure place a lot of value on something that's so unreliable." Maya held a hand out. "Justice maybe unreliable, but still…I want to make that my priority out in the wasteland; I stand firm on that belief." Virginia finished saying looking toward Maya. Maya shrugged toward her. "I don't get you." Virginia slowly smiled. "So, what's next for you?" Virginia asked.
"I don't want to get involved with what just happened, that for sure. I'm only interested in gems." With that Maya's group started to leave. But then she turned back around to look at Virginia. "You better watch your self, you hear? Someone as green as you shouldn't get involved in a cause as lofty as Justice; you'll end up dead." Virginia nodded to Maya.
"Okay…You take care, too…" Maya nodded back to Virginia. "We might be enemies the next time we meet…" Virginia gave her a small smile. "Well, until then let's be on the same side." Then they left. Soon after they did, we did as well.
The rocks started to move as a blue hair man rolled out of there. "Ughhhh...Dammit…! My body aches all over…" Janus yelled falling into his butt. He looked around a bit. "Dario! Romero! You Blokes here?" He yelled but didn't get an answer. "Dammit…all!" He yelled looking at the ground. Then a loud sound was heard in front of him.
"Huh? Is that you, Dario? Romero?" He asked looking up. Three robed people stood in front of him. "Oh…it's you blokes…" Janus shrugged. "Sorry…I screwed up but I promise I'll complete my next assignment. I won't let anyone get in my way next time I…I…Actually; it was Dario and Romero that screwed up…Not me…" The robed people looked away from him. "Was it a mistake for us to manifest power to one who does not understand its true meaning…?" The robed woman asked the other two.
Then a small demon jump down holding the sphere in his hands. "Ugh…I see…so you had this watchman recover the dark spear from me, eh? How could I be so careless…?" Janus asked closing his eyes. Then a blonde man in a robe walk up to Janus; "yes, balazs has reported everything. About your grand Scheme, your actions…" then the robed women stepped forward. "How vulgar, boorish and shameless…" the blonde man started to gain power into his right hand.
"This will be a fitting end for your reckless Behavior…" the man finished saying. "No…wait…" The third robed person said. "Why did you seek the dark spear…?" He asked looking toward Janus. The man slowly steps toward Janus, "for power…?" he asked. "Y-Y-yeah…" was all Janus could say. The man held the sphere over Janus. "This is the incarnation of the power you seek…the dark spear…" "I deem you worthy..." "Accept…!" the man said stabbing Janus with the sphere. I loud yell could be heard from miles and miles.