The End!
Everyone's eyes were wide in surprise at what was happening. Their movements were graceful, their eyes alive with an inner fire, and most importantly they were in full battle gear as people scrambles out of the way of the Misu's sisters. Marrow and Gateau flew behind them. The group was ready for battle, and their auras were so intense that even the two Haz Knights with the flowers stop. Millie prepared him self to face them knowing full well, that he wouldn't arrival in time to save the coffin. Their objective is clear, yet, without some sort of interferences there was no way it could be saved. The coffin would be destroyed, and a real fight would break out within moment after that. Only a complete idiot would get in their way now, and to his surprise though it shouldn't have been Onion Glace step to the back of the coffin. He pulled out his old, rusty sword from it's sheathe, and prepared to square off with them. His voice and eyes filled with the fires of his youth as he shouted at them.
"STOP, this isn't the way to do this!"
It was a command & a plead that the four could no longer listen to, as twin whips struck out only to be tangle in a sword, and a fire phoenix split through the air as the tangle up sword was forced into position to take the incoming attack. The fire splitting in two around him and around the coffin as Onion Glace held his ground against the three attacks, and then met fist to fist with the fourth. Once the flames had cleared, Gateau had goes in for what should have been an effective surprise attack. Yet, the real one to be surprised was Gateau as he bounces backwards shaking his hand a little. Both men fist were a nasty shade of red as the four pairs of eyes searched for Onion's, and he met theirs without flinching. His interruption wasn't one that the group had figured on as he stares at them deeply, and then snatched his sword backwards taking the Misu sister's whips with him. It was clear, that their plans had already gone array as the whips arched in the air before lying at the foot of the coffin.
"What in the hell are you thinking?" "Are you thinking at all, or are you letting the grief control you?" "What would your actions here gain you?"
His hard voice calls out as Marron stood there rigid. His father had never spoken to him in such a way, and the harshness of his voice took him back a few steps. The two girls & Gateau were not nearly as effective as they switched their weaponry. The whips were gone, but that didn't do anything about the spindle thread that they often used. It was much more deadly and they knew if that weapon was drawn this was going to be a fight to the death. Yet, Onion didn't back down, as he waited for an answer.
Marron was the one whom spoke up.
"Father, Carrot isn't in that coffin." "I checked it earlier …I know that it's empty." "Carrot isn't dead …I can still feel him."
Onion looks at his son, and then twist to looks at Big Mama. The woman was already to her feet, and though silent she was waiting to see how this was going to turn out. Millie stood at her side then, where he had come from was beyond anyone's guess as he crossed his arms. His eyes cast downwards, and Onion couldn't help noticing that even as he turns his back on Marron. He walks to the front of the casket, and without any kind of effort swings it open. Onion already knew what he would find, and he felt his heart constrict in pain. His son, his eldest boy lay there amongst the cushion of the casket. His eyes closed, his mouth set in a peaceful expression that would never change. He looked only to be asleep, but, Onion knew it was permanent. He wouldn't wake up. He didn't at first want to look back, but, he knew he must. He ran away once, he wasn't going to do it again ….as he looks back to see Marron's broken expression. The spindle thread dropped from both sisters' hands and Gateau slump to the ground. They were wrong …they were so wrong, and Marron seem almost at a lost for words. He could still feel his brother though. If he was dead, why could he still feel him? Why?
Marron's hand went over his heart, and his father knew what to do without anything needing to be said. He walks over to Marron and holds him close as he feels the boy slump against him with his head on his shoulders. Soon, Onion feels the coolness of the room through the wetness of his shoulder. The heartbroken sobs of Tira and Chocolat could be heard coming beyond them, and Tira found comfort in Daughter's arms as the winged girl came to her side. Hugging her close, the girls sobbed together, while Chocolat sobbed alone. Her eyes shut so tightly that one would think she was trying to will herself to disappear as Gateau found his sister hugging him from behind. Her tears wet against his neck, as she cried for him. The muscle man wouldn't shed a tear, his pride wouldn't allow it then, as he stare ahead with hallow eyes. Onion tightens his grip on remaining son as he looks over his shoulder at Big Mama. His glare was twice as ferocious as before.
"Grief can be a very powerful emotion, please, do not think harshly of them." "They were the ones whom knew Carrot best, and also the one whom will miss him the most."
Big Mama tore her eyes from the eldest Glace and proclaimed loudly. It was her way of asking without asking for everyone's forgiveness for the interruption. Her way of smoothing over something that she knew was still jagged and raw, and finally, a way to continue what had been stopped only moments before. That last event had made her very uncomfortable standing up there, and she was more than ready for this to be over. The sooner, she really did kill Carrot the better it would all be, and she knew that though they had let it go for the moment, his team-mates if she didn't move faster would find out the truth. At all cost, that wasn't to happen.
The two Haz Knights that had paused in all of this started forward again, and Carrot, the real Carrot slump to the ground. He is dead. He looks at the head that rest there, the spiky hair still pointed in varies directions, with a brown tint that could easily be confused as black. His own face with his eyes closed and his mouth set in what seem to be a peaceful expression. He couldn't believe it. Yet, he was there, and this is real. The snake coils around him tightly.
"Sssssshe went through a lot to do thissssss." "You are dead to them and your life isssss over here." "You can clearly sssssee it." "Sssssso, what are you going to do now?"
The hissing seems to come from everywhere at once. Carrot turns to try and look for it, but, he couldn't see anyone. He knew deep down, that it came from that snake. The one that had bitten him deeply as his hand unconsciously goes to his chest. The wound nonexistent, seemingly nothing more than a figment of his imagination now, but then again, he is a ghost. Why was he still here? He could feel a heavy weight press on his body as the flowers reached the coffin and was then placed in the middle in a cross formation. Each rose's end resting just short of where the coffin lay open where he could see it all. His body laying there, everyone's tears, it all suddenly became suffocating as the snake tighten its coils around Carrot. Invisible deadly coils that fed the doubt in his heart, as the snake drew itself closer to his ear.
"The war will begin after this." "Your father figured it out the moment that it happened …he knowssss Big Mama killed you." "Your friendsssss will rally behind him, and everyone will die." "You can't sssssave them from that fate asssss you are now, but if you let usssss help you, you can build a new one for them." "Burn thisssss dessssspicable world to the ground, let their sssssoulsssss free, and then re-gather them and place them in a paradissssse of your own creation." "You can do that …even now, Carrot you can do that, but only if you let usssss help you."
The voice hissed, and Carrot simply shook his head. He wouldn't be turned, even if he was dead to them and his friends would suffer because of it. He couldn't, wouldn't be the one to destroy them. The snake hisses angrily, but its voice didn't go away. Not when the funeral reached its apex and his friends came forward to say their last words. The voice continued to plead with him, even as his team-mates were too frozen by their pain to participate in the final farewell. When it was done, the coffin was closed for the last time, as his father, Millie, Gateau, and Marron each took the coffin out of the church. The voice still demanded that he would call out for them, and as Carrot followed them to where he is placed in the ground, his decision didn't change. The dirt quickly cover up the coffin as the rain fell from the skies, and Carrot felt his hair slicked by it, but yet, he didn't change his mind. He sat down in the mud as he watched it all, and he raises his head to the heavens.
"I don't want to die, but I accept it."
His voice was so soft, and brown eyes didn't even flinch when he felt the reply to his answer. He was disappearing, and he didn't try to fight it. His body became as translucent as glass to the snake then, and the wind blew once and he was gone. The snake's jaws open wide …as he hissed horribly, and lightning flashes across the sky striking the ground. The entire funeral procession that remain jumped as the lightning scorched the ground, but all they saw was the burnt ground. The snake saw something more as twin green coils slither …though only one through the ground. A dragon, its head towering high above that of the snake as its teeth shone white in its anger.
"You pushed it too far."
There wasn't much else that could be said. The snake scales left a trench in the mud, but the rain washes it away almost as quickly as the snake made it. This was the only sign of their existences, but considering what was going on around them …no one would ever notice. The snake hissed its displeasure a sound that breach the real world, but sounded the same as the rain pouring down around them. It had all went exactly as planned, it was perfect, he should have broken, but yet, it would seem that this host wouldn't be pushed. His acceptances wouldn't come that easily, as the snake showed it's fangs as Big Mama stood amongst those that remain. Her eyes were calm even as Onion bumps up against her, and his voice lost to everyone in the rain gave her a very real threat. The man might be a drunk, and sometimes a shame to the Sorcerer Hunters, but he was also one of the most respected members of her order. That wasn't just amongst the hunters, but amongst the Haz Knights as well. His threat wasn't one to easily be ignored, and for a moment, her real face showed. A face as cunning as a snakes, with fang that seem to match. Her eyes glinting not with compassion, but with an evil that seem to go all the way to the core, but, it lasted for less than a second. For less than the time it took to blink, and she was once more a beautiful pure woman with a heart of gold.
Yet, there is darkness within her, and it is that darkness that the snake knew would one day bring about the Destruction of the world. Though, it would seem that today wasn't that day, as the Dragon curled around the snake once more …threateningly, and the snake bowed its head in surrender. It had failed its objective, it had failed completely, and thus, it's lost would be a heavy one. Lightning flared across the sky once more, and the snake was no longer at Carrot's grave. Instead, it lays curl around the boy as he lay on the ground at Crossroad Canyon. The boy's body nude, and exposed to the world …even as the poison course through his veins. The snake still around him …they had just broken from their joining, and it was reluctant to leave as of yet. That feeling of power, the knowledge that if it press just a little bit more, maybe it could force the child to do something more. Kill his friends, that would drive him mad, that would give him a reason to surrender himself to them. Yet, the snake knew it wasn't alone. It could feel the presence of its brother in this change …the thicker scales of the dragon encircle his own.
"Your plan failed."
The dragon's throat rumbles deeply, and the snake hisses angrily at creature. The snake's movements are swift …as its fangs once more puncture Carrot's chest, and like before, it would leave no visible marks that any mortal could see. He injects his poison deep into the boy's veins, and he could feel it already counter-acting the other poison within. The darkness is receding and the light slowly cutting through it. It was pointless for that woman to continue to try, if they couldn't turn him, then her attempts at destroying him wouldn't be any better. They would make sure of that, as the dragon disappeared, and the snake quickly followed.
His friends gather around him in fear as he lay there longer than normal, their eyes waiting for him to get up. A rock shifts slowly as the boy does just that, and he smiles at his friends with whip marks all over his body. The tell-tale signs of their rounding up of the giant water snake that he once was. A relief that went all the way to their souls was expressed, but none of them knew why, as the beating after that quickly commence. For the boy, wasn't the smartest of people, but, seeing their seriously looks …he had proven once more he would never turn on them.
"Man, too bad …I was having a wonderful dream about women, and they were rubbing their breast all over me."
Carrot proclaims loudly, and Chocolat suddenly topless jumps on top of him then. Rubbing herself up against him, Carrot tries to dislodge the girl from his body as a sudden tension grew in front of him. Marron chuckling lightly as Gateau moved to man's side as if getting closer to Marron would give him better view.
"Darling, you don't have to dream …I can give you the real thing if you want!"
Chocolat proclaims as suddenly a stuttering voice changed from high pitched to very sensual.
"C-C-C-Carrot, what do you think you are doing?" "I see you are a bad doggie that needs some more training."
Carrot looks beyond Chocolat to see Tira completely transformed. The thin wire trailing through her lips as the boy tries to run with Chocolat still attached, but he didn't get very far as the cackling could be heard from miles around.
Big Mama glared at her crystal ball and the image within it, as she waves her hand to dismiss it. Her fingers crossing as she thinks about the creature of destruction that still remains in their ranks. Her hand touching on the arm rest of her chair as Millie bows before her. Big Mama takes a deep breath.
"It wasn't good enough." "It seems I will have to try something else." "You are dismissed Millie, I will call you again when I have come up with a better plan."
The man bows even lower as he straight up and leaves. The words ran through his mind: The most dangerous darkness is the darkness that is within. He passes through the church, and sitting outside of it is waiting on him is Onion. His arms crossed as he looks over at the young man, and is given the full report. He closes his eyes. It would have to happen soon, if he let this continue, he might have to bury his eldest son. That wasn't acceptable, as he pushes off the wall lightly and then nods to Millie. The man was like a double agent at this phase in the game, he was loyal to Big Mama, but in the same regards he is loyal to his comrades as well. It left him in the middle, and it was this middle that Onion would take advantage of to overthrown the Church.
The most dangerous place for darkness to reside is within.
Author's notes:
I really hate this ending, but, it's the only one I had that was on my old computer, and since, it was two years ago since I last updated …I no longer feel my story enough to give it a different one. Thus, I want to thank everyone whom read this and especially those whom review, because if it wasn't for you …this story wouldn't have an end.
