The car stopped and we were in front of a huge, towering building in front of the city. Axl didn't hesitate to turn off the care and get out. It was almost like in that one swift motion I could feel that he was honestly ready to deal with X, and he was a bit upset. But when I looked at him I competely got the opposite expression. It looked like he was excited and this was sorta nerve wrecking.

I don't think I'll ever get him. As for myself, I'm starting to get nervous. I'm starting to shake a bit. This felt like the last struggle we'd have but would it honestly be? I thought about what Blues told me. The Illuminati had to have alot of numbers. What good would it do to get X and Zero only. Sure we could save Blues but like what? And could everything be fine in just two days?

I doubted it. I was a bit scared. Axl looked at me and tilted his head. I frowned.

"Ya scared Rocko-chan~?" Axl asked. I thought for a second but not long and just simply nodded.

"It's just...what's supposed to happen after this like...will life ever be the same?" I said suddenly getting what I wanted to say out. Axl just shrugged, and it made me feel like he was being completely honest with me.

"Who knows. In fact, I think this is all a bit shifty, but still we have to go forward. If we don't we're gonna die. I won't let that happen to you. It wouldn't sit right with me." Axl said emotion leaving his face.

"This is so strange! I can't handle this." I said letting more of how I felt come out.

"No kidding. Listen, Rock... I'm really sorry about dragging you into this...but you can't quit now. I need you. I'm serious. I seriously need you." Axl said, with his hand touching my shoulder. I felt like I had left my body when he said that. I took a deep breath to calm myself.

"Alright." I said nodding my head and grabbing all the resolve I could. Axl nodded too.

"Hey! Don't look so worried, we're gonna save Moe Nii-chan~!" Axl said throwing his fist in the air. I nodded and did the same.

After that there was no more talking. We ran up to the front door of the building and it turned out that it was really fancy lofts. We ran to the front desk and rung the lady's bell. She walked over to us and made a face.

Obviously we probably looked strange.

I had a tank of water and what looked like a nerf gun in my hands, and Axl was just a character already. She looked at us like "Where they do that at?" Axl walked toward the desk more and leaned on it.

"Aye girl. I'm trying to get to a loft and I kinda need the number, but...I noticed how cute you looked and I just had to talk to you...Like god damn! Where are you from?" Axl said putting a layer of charm. I squinted my eyes at the situation. Like for what?

"Oh! Wow...erm...who can say? ahahahahahahahahaha" The woman was giggling. Axl smiled at her.

"Your just so cute. You wouldn't mind helping me find the loft I'm looking for riiiiiiight? Can I borrow the keys tooooooo pleeeease?" Axl asked. She kept giggling. Now that was carisma if I ever see it. How does one pull that off. Man. Axl's amazing in the worst ways sometimes.

Once Axl had gotten information from here and grabbed the keys he left and we walked towards an elevator.

"Rock I don't feel so gucci maaaaan." Axl said leaning back in the elevator. I was concerned.

"What's up?" I asked.

"The closer we get to this room, the worse I'm starting to feel." Axl responded.

"I...what can I do?" I asked. Axl shrugged again.

"Nothing man, I just wanted to tell you just in case something happened." Axl said with a small smile. I kept this in mind. X's loft was on the top floor with apparently an amazing view. We had almost gotten to the door to X's loft when suddenly we saw a guy who got launched through the door. His head hit the wall and there was blood. Looking at the guy we had no idea who he was and it sorta made me cringe.

It's times like this when my mind becomes paranoid about what is gonna happen and what will happen. Sometimes I wonder how I'm here right now and where did I get all these guts. Right now I feel like I'm on auto pilot, like I'm not the one in control. It's sorta strange. Nothing stops me and Axl from ringing the doorbell. Externally I'm calm and cool but on the inside I can't believe this. I grip the water gun in my hand and Axl smiles at me one last time before the door opens.

X comes to the door in pajamas and bed head. Good to know he was sleeping in while we were worried like hell about Blues. I spoke first.

"Where's blues?" I ask still on auto pilot. X smiled at me.

"Rock, he's right in here, why don't you guys come in." X said turning around with a sweet smile, nudging for us to come inside. This pissed me off. What is his damn problem? Treating this like it's just another day. He fucking kidnapped my older brother, like what? He's with the illuminati and probably sacrifced people but still this motherfucker is being all sweet, in his stupid little pajamas, with his nice bedhead. This mother fucker. X pissed me off.

My first reflex as soon as he turns around is spraying him with the holy water in the back. I did it quickly and I could tell not even Axl was expecting it. X dropped to the floor and groaned in pain. He was wining like a small kid that hit his knee but was trying to be a G about it.

"OUCH! Rock, what's your problem I thought we were friends?" X said looking genuinely hurt. It was almost eerie how childish he was being. It was distrubing, I retaliated with anger.

"Fuck off. I want my brother and then we're gonna deal with you." I said. I felt like I wasn't even in control of what I was saying at this point. All I wanted to see was the end. That's all I wanted. I was scared, but I was hiding it with courage. That's what I read in some psycological book once. Axl was calm when I looked over to him. Til finally he spoke.

"Damn Rock, you're not fucking around man. Alright guess it's time to get serious." Axl said bringing his hands together. X got off the floor.

"So I guess, I can't give you back your brother and Axl is gonna come with me huh?" X said calmly.

"Yeah pretty much. Wanna know how this is gonna go?" Axl said to X. X just nodded curiously.

"Well Rock and I are gonna wreck you. Thennnn we'll take blues, annd then we'll come for Zero and I'm gonna rip out his lushious locks. After that I'm gonna reserrect and expose y'all motherfuckers. So shall we begin?" Axl said stretching. I titled my head.

"Yeah what he said!" I agreed a bit thrown off with how this was going. It just seemed so calm. It was strange. X stepped back and then nudged his head. Zero appeared in the room and pulled out a sword. I knew at that moment we were gonna be fucked. X on the other hand flexed his hand and then suddenly came running at me without one word.

I moved out of the way. I guess X was coming for me. Zero on the other hand went for Axl.

In that moment I swear my life flashed before my eyes, and before I knew it X had tackled me and was literally strangling me.

It was in that moment that I felt like I was in over my head.

I could feel my breath shortening.

I saw X's face. He was still smiling.

In the distance I heard furniture breaking.

It must be Axl and Zero.

I felt like I was loosing conciousness.

My squirt gun was far away from me.

I knew I wasn't good enough.

I mean, like what was I really?

Just some white skinny 17-year old kid.

How did I even get into something like this?

By pure rotten luck.

I wanted to help Axl.

Just like how he indirectly helped me.

I loved his show, it gave me motivation everyday.

When I watched it, it sorta made me feel less lonely.

I was never good at making friends, and talking to people.

I was never good at expressing my emotions or dislikes, or likes.

To everyone else, I was a blank slate. I was just there.

That's all I am.

Just there.

It hurts. Feeling useless, it hurts.

These thoughts hurt more, than being strangled.

It hurts me so much.

So much.

My gun is almost in reach.

My breath is shortening.

I can't even help him.

I was going to die.

In the one moment I thought I could be something.

I look X in the eyes the best way I could.

All I see is confidence.

I feel a single tear come out of my eye.

X's smile deepens.

This is the moment I try harder than I've ever tried in my life.

I scoot slowly towards it, in hopes of reaching the water spray thing. X doesn't realize what I'm doing. I'm so close, but it hurts, and I'm sure I've lost all breath at this point. But I wasn't going to give up. I had to this. For myself, for Axl and for Blues. I had to. I couldn't just give up. Not after everything. It's in my grasp and I grab it and squirt it in X's eyes.

He lets go of me, falling back. Finally I feel air coming back to my lungs. I look down for a second to recompose myself and catch breaths. It still hurts, but atleast I can breath. I have to ignore it. I have to finish off X.

I get up off of the ground and I see X on the ground curled up. I can almost hear a sizzling sound. It's honestly disgusting. I take a deep breath and dash towards X. He's on the ground, and he looks up at me with pure hatred. He tries to grab at me, but I can tell he can't see right now. Was there seriously so much demonic shit inside of X he was legitimately burning away from holy water?

Like damn, what was he doing?

Ignoring this thought I start shooting more relentlessly, making sure X can't get close to me again. Unfortunally X gets closer and once more get's me on the ground. This time with my newfound resolve I actually make it out on top and I just keep spraying X while I hold him down.

At this point he's screaming in agony, it was ugly.

The whole situation was ugly.

His skin was peeling off and there was steam. The sizzling sound came back. All I could hear from X was, stop, stop stop stop. In the worse painful shriek. It kinda hurt me. Internally. But the I remembered the ceremony. I remembered all that stuff that I'd read. He deserves this. He has to. I'm not doing anything wrong and I won't stop.

Suddenly the screams stopped and X was out cold. Something was different about X. I want to believe that I had gotten all the demonic stuff or whatever out of him. I felt drained.

I wanted to collapse right then and there but I heard glass breaking. Axl and Zero.

In the distance I heard :

"JESUS BEAM MOTHERFUCKER."

Yep Axl must be doing okay. Still I was worried. Zero was really tough, he probably doesn't know about X being knocked out, if he does that will probably give him an edge over us so I decided to put X on the couch so Zero won't imediately know. He strikes me as the kind of guy to only get tougher when he's angry. Once I do that I check the other parts of the loft to see if Blues is there.

I avoid the part of the place that Axl and Zero are fighting in so that Zero won't find out that X had been defeated. I want him to think we're still fighting.

Looking at the loft I see that's it's decorated amazingly. Without a doubt it was X's doing. A feeling I have tells me to go to the farthest door. I do that and it looks like a bed room. It's completely teal and pink in there, and there's a giant TV going with what looks like Rainbow Brite on the TV. It was the episode where she lost her balloon. I walk in more to see something I'll never forget.

My older brother, as intense as he was :

In the pink bed, with footie pajamas, tied to a giant kuma bear with heart patterned duct tape across his mouth. His sunglasses are off and I could see his eyes. There's little heart shapped clips in his hair and Blues is intensely watching Rainbow Brite. I can't help but laugh. Blues squints at me. I run over, first giving him a hug. I was scared to death to be honest. But now that I know he's just been tied to a giant teddy bear watching Rainbow Brite I can't even think they did anything wrong to him.

I take the duct tape off of Blues' mouth. He goes "ouch!" Then he speaks.

"Would it be disgusting if I said I had the time of my life." Blues said, as I started to untie his arms from the bear. I stopped and laughed. It came out nasally because I'd been choked less than 6 minutes ago. My throat hurt like hell, buuuut I was ignoring it.

"Blues, those pajamas are fleek as fuck." I said with a laugh. Blues smirked.

"Dude shut up, I'm taking these home. Where's Axl?" Blues asked me suddenly. I had remembered.

"He's fighting Zero, you didn't hear us come in?" I asked curiously.

"No it seems like this room is soundproof. Nothing comes in. I don't think anything gets out." Blues said. Suddenly my mind goes where it shouldn't. There had to be a reason this bedroom was sound proof. This was X's loft too...I'm sure my face went red. Blues deadpan glared at me.

"You're dirty lil bro." Blues said getting up and walking towards the dresser. He got his sunglasses out from the drawer and put them on.

"Alright, lets go help Axl." I said with a smirk brushing off Blues' comment. Blues just nodded. I see he made no effort to find his old clothes. He must really be feeling those pajamas. Maaan I secretly want a pair.

We go back out into the living room to see X, thankfully knocked out and Axl and Zero on some serious fight stuff.

At this point it was Zero swinging his sword and just missing Axl, while axl was was trying to throw a Jesus beam ( Can we please not call it that) Axl looked so cool. I know it's real ridiculous of me to think that while I'm watching a crazy fight but he really did. I'd give anything to take a picture. Well maybe not anything.

"Should we intervien?" Blues asked. I nodded. So like the hater I was I started squirted holy water at Zero. The first shot tripped Zero up so hard, he fell on a glass table and the whole room paused. As if we were one unity we yelled things and laughed so much that I'm sure it pissed Zero off.

"DAMN HE GOT FUCKED UP ON THAT GLASS!" Axl yelled literally pointing at Zero.

"Fuck, man are you good?!" Blues said trying to contain his laughter.

"That's what your bitch ass fabio self gets." I said leaning down right next to Zero's ear. As soon as I said that

"DAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN Rock you ain't have to say all that." Axl said putting his arm around my shoulder. I smiled down at Zero, he was struggling to get up. I had no sympathy for Zero. I was still mad about the two other times I fought him. So I took the whole tub of the holy water and splashed it down on Zero. He screamed. He still wasn't knocked out, he was screaming in pain, and his skin was pealing off just like how X's did. Soon he was out cold.

He almost looked peaceful. He'd been bleeding though. So Blues called an ambulence. Sure we were gonna beat them up, but sure as hell we weren't gonna kill them. Besides we'd gotten all of their demonic power out of them. There's so way they could attack us again.

As soon as we were done I fell to my knees. Yep my neck pain was catching up to me. I looked at Axl who walked over to me and crouched down beside me. He grabbed me and gave me a hug.

"Thank you Rock." He said simply. I was embarrassed beyond words, but I hugged back. Yep this was so worth it.

"Oh so you guys aren't gonna include me in the hug? Pffft. whateverrrrrrr" Blues said in a fake hurt tone. I laughed and it hurt. Axl and I let go of each other and ran over to blues.

"Oooooh I couldn't forget about you Nii-san~!" Axl said making kissy face at Blues and Blues cringed. I hugged Blues from the other side and we all ended up falling on the floor.

"Too much love, too much." Blues said pushing us off.

"Man Blues, those pajamas are fleek as fuck." Axl said examining what Blues was wearing.

"Mhm jelly ain't you." Blues said. I got up off of the floor, and walked into the kitchen area. I took the wild berry poptarts out of the cabinet and opened one and ate it. Blues and Axl started laughing. They were laughing but I'm trying to eat these poptarts.

We gathered up our stuff and left, walking out of the door, down the hallway. We knew the ambulance would get there soon, and it wouldn't look good if we were there when that happened. I looked at Axl to see he'd got cut by Zero's sword a few times. He saw me looking at it and he threw a peace sign and spoke.

"I'm fine. Seriously, I don't feel anything. In fact I feel really good, so don't make that face~" Axl said with a small smile. I couldn't help but smile myself. Blues smirked from where he was. We walked out and got into the car.

When we got to the car, I took off the holy water container that was now empty, Axl got into the passenger seat and Blues got in the front seat, I got in the back because I seriously wanted to lay down or something, even though I knew it wouldn't help my throat.

When Blues started the car, he put in a childish gambino CD and played track 7.

We all started singing along. Axl started.

"All she needed was some." Axl went

"All she needed was some" Blues went

"All she needed was some" I went

"All she needed was some" Axl went.

By the time the song actually started I fell asleep.

When I woke up I was in Blues' house in a pair of his pajamas. My throat had been bandaged with some kind of ointment stuff that made it feel better. I was feeling good but drowsy. I looked to the side to see Axl on the side of my bed. He smiled at me.

"Hey~! You're up." Axl said poking my head. This made me wake up a bit more.

"Y-Yeah" I said slightly embarrassed for no reason in particular.

"Hey, calm down it's just me." Axl said moving in closer to me, I sat up in the bed. Axl pulled me closer.

"Rock, you know I feel like it's almost time for me to go again...but there's something I wanna do before then..." Axl said almost nervously. I got equally as nervous but before I could do or say anything else, we were kissing. Like legit kissing. This was happening to me. It was the best feeling in all the feels. Better than anything I could've accomplished by myself. When we let go I missed the feeling of being connected.

Axl grabbed my hands and then spoke looking me directly in the eye.

"I want to tell you that you're amazing. I want to tell you that, you're better than all those other people you put ahead of you. Rock I want to tell you that you have potential and I want you to live your life to the fullest. If you like someone go ahead and tell them. The worst they can do is say no. If you wanna wear a yellow blazer, do that shit, wear it with pride. If you wanna get over on someone, do it loud and proud. Waiting is how you miss out." Axl said maintaining his smile.

I could feel myself tearing up inside. This sounded like a goodbye.

"Axl..." Is all I could get out.

"Rock life is short, remember that." Axl said smiling.

We kissed once more, and then when I opened my eyes he was gone.

I wanted to believe that he would resurrect. I wanted to believe that one day he was just gonna come back to life. That they'd stop his funeral and he'd pop out of his coffin and hope out like

"I'm not dead~! Sorry not sorry~!"

But it never happened. Axl never resurrected.

When I asked the priest down at the church he told me that Axl's injuries were too much for his soul to contain, and that he probably did come back to life, but simply died before he could get help.

He was dead. After all that he was gone.

I can't help but think that no one came after Blues and I because of the fact that Axl did just stay dead and there was no one to really tell about the truth of the Illuminati. What could Blues and I do? Nothing because anything we'd say would just sound like internet rumor fodder. It disgusted me. In a strange way they'd won. X ended up doing what he normally does, publishing books, I stopped to read one the other day and it feels like there's a different air about him now.

To this day I'm still not completely over Axl's death It really hurts. I didn't know him for long, but it felt like I did. He was really amazing. I carry around my plushie still. But now it's for a different reason. I just feel closer to him somehow.

I took his advice. I'm actually living my life now. Everytime I hesitate I remember what he said :

"Rock life is short, remember that."

I'll never forget it. It helped me so much. I made friends, I progressed I even managed to find a girl that I liked. Her name is Tempo she's a year younger than me, but we like some of the same stuff. It took 3 years but hey, it happened.

It's all thanks to Axl.

I'll never forget it.


This story is all finished up now. It was gucci writing it. I went from hating it to being like "Yeah~!" I feel like you all will want to fight me for the bitch ass ending I just wrote and I'm here to say COME AT ME BRO. You guys can get it. Or if you wanna hug me that's good too. It's funny cause Axl has never died before in a fanfiction I've written. He's always that one that just manages to live and he's like "Damn man that was crazy" But nope not this time. Lastly, my homie Night, I hope you're satisfied, I saw this to the end for you. I hope you felt it. And shout out to every other person who read this story. You guys are fleek as fuck.

That's pretty much all I wanted to say. I'll be back with another fic soon enough.

-Froggy.