Hell has no Fury

They was on a plain of ice. It stretched out as far as they could tell. The stars casted their faint light on the snow. In the sky the northern lights sparkled vividly. Most was green, but parts was blue, orange and pink. The cold was numbing, but the air was high and clear. Under their feet the snow squeaked.

"Welcome to your very own hell. As you can see it is frozen over." In the silence Tessa's voice sounded misplaced. It was a place where nature dominated and only wildness had been.

"Is this the real hell?" Bogan asked, not believing it. According to him neither heaven or hell was existed.

"No. It is a frozen world, but to you it will be. You will never get out of here. I will destroy everything that contains even the smallest bit of your essence and then you will finally die."

Tessa was holding her chin high, standing strait and to Bogan she looked like a queen who was as merciless as ice. He saw the frost that had formed on her dark bangs, her delicate jawline and strong chin, her hard mouth, sharp nose, his marks and her beautiful eyes that had seen so much. Her image was imprinted in his mind and it would stay there forever.

He haded her and the hate burned in his eyes. He hated her entire being, her existence, that she was the pray that escaped his claws. He loved her and would do anything to bring her under his control, to make her his, to kill her. That hate and love was so close connected.

She was gone. He hadn't even noticed when she had disappeared.

"My dear Tessa." he whispered at the empty air where her face had been. "I WILL KILL YOU!"

~o~

Once again Tessa was in the Omniverse. She was in the great chamber were Merlyn overlooked the infinite number of worlds. The roof was a doom of glass, showing the stars above.

Although the stars was not actual stars. They were representations for each and every universe. Now Tessa could see all the stars, not only the ones closest yo her home world. There was so many that the sky seamed to be made of light. Merlyn himself was there, his eyebrows raised due to her unexpected appearance.

"How did you get here?" he asked, a suspicious look on his face. Tessa ignored his question and walked up to him. He was taller, but it seamed as if she towered above him.

"You killed Roma, your own daughter."

"Say how did you come across that tidbit of information?"

"I know many things."

"Then you probably know that she was becoming a liability. And there is nothing you can do for her now. She is dead."

"The dead can be avenged."

"Since when did you become the champion for good and justice? The last time I checked you wasn't an angel."

Tessa grabbed his neck with one hand. His breathing became strained.

"Odds are that I never will be a angel. This is what Roma wanted. Revenge. Did you know that she transfered her consciousness to me? Her knowledge, powers, memories, emotions. Everything."

Tessa squeezed harder and Merlyn gasped. The air became tense as he collected energy, both from stores inside himself and from the surrounding. It discharged in a flash of light, throwing Tessa away. She landed hard and pain surged up her shoulder. She bit together her teeth hard and stood.

"So out of your vast number of powers you used that one. To bad for you that you need time to build up enough energy to throw an other charge."

"What tells you that it is the only power I'm using?" the voice came from behind her and the place where he had stood earlier was empty.

"Nothing." she said as she turned around slowly. There he was. Or rather a illusion of him was. It looked exactly like him, but to her vision it was slightly transparent. The ability to see through illusions was from the beginning her own, and the merge with Roma had enhanced it. There was no way a illusion could fool her now.

A sword laying on the floor next to a throne like chair caught her attention. The same sword he had used to kill Roma. With the telekinesis that had been part of her powers Tessa lifted the sword and sent it flying towards Merlyn, his outline clear to her.

The illusion evaporated and with his own telekinesis he stopped it midair. It shivered, stuck between the two powers trying to move it in opposite directions from each other.

"To bad that you already used your discharge." Tessa told him before releasing her own blast. It's power sent Merlyn flying into the wall, just like a child would throw away a rag doll when having a tantrum.

Something cracked when he slammed into the glass. Somehow Tessa doubted that the glass ever would break. Merlyn didn't fall and neither did the sword. Tessa was holding both up with Roma's telekinesis. As she moved closer to Merlyn the sword did the same, staying in the middle between them.

"You can't kill me."

"Funny you should say that. You are the second to state the same thing today."

"I am immortal, eternal. I will never disappear."

Tessa shrugged. "Perhaps so. But it is time for you to turn to dust."

"I will be resurrected."

"Maybe you will be eventually. Although not son."

She raised her hand and made a motion towards Merlyn.

"You will regret this."

The sword swooshed forward and reality bended. There was a clatter when the sword struck the glass and fell to the floor. Merlyn was gone.

~o~

Tessa waled through the empty halls of the Crystal Palace. She had memories of every room. Few was her own, but she had the others as well, they were part of her. She knew how to run the universes, one of the few with that kind of knowledge.

For the most part it spun on by itself, but at times the balance was disturbed and then she was to bring it back to normal. Sometimes it would be she that disturbed the fragile balance. She truly had the fate of the world resting on her. It was her responsibility.

She would to stay and become a all knowing Sage overlooking everything. A position so many would kill for, and she that hadn't even strived for it was the one to get it. Fate was a funny thing, not that it existed.

The End

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Author's Note: And that's it. The final chapter. Hope you enjoyed reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it. If you want more you should know that I'm considering writing either a sequel or a prelude or both, but we'll see if that ever happens. For now, Thanks for reading.