Chapter 16
The final confrontation
It killed me to let Envy have the last words in the last chapter but all well this chapter ….I actually don't know what will happen this is as new to me as it is you….in a way. I hope you have enjoyed the story thus far and I hope you enjoy it further. Please R&R and lets all thank my Beta *gives a large cyber cookie to Amaya Night Rain of the Dragon* please R&R and I hope you enjoy the chapter and remember reviews are love.
After all that it looks like I'm back to square one. I have been trapped in this world for weeks and I was really starting to get homesick. What is this, the 3-4th time I've been captured? The only difference between this time and the last times is that I probably won't escape this time. At least Amanda wasn't captured as well, and she isn't being fooled by Breeze, I guess that means I won't die in vain.
"Get in there." Envy said as he shoved me through the door of the throne room. I stumbled then turned to face him and asked,
"Don't you have a forest to go stand in palm tree?" he gave me a universal 'you are so lucky I can't kill you' look in response.
"Actually it's more of a beach." Breeze cut in as she walked past me with anime Lust.
"I thought you were on my side?" Envy said annoyed but Breeze replied calmly even perky,
"I am, but I don't like you…you killed Hughes, no one likes you." He growled but his reply was cut off by Lust.
"We brought her just like you asked." As it turned out anime Lust and Envy had been hiding nearby and were waiting to take me when Mustang was gone.
"So you're back," Dante said smugly.
"Shove it," I murmured. I looked around and saw that Pride (Selim) and Wrath (Bradley) where gone. Somehow I learned to tell the difference between all of them. The only people in the room were anime Sloth, brotherhood sloth, anime Envy, Father, Dante, anime Lust, little wrath from the anime, and both Gluttony from the anime and manga. Wow, a lot of anime ones lived…then again they all died in the end or in the movie. Meanwhile I was pretty sure the brotherhood Pride and brotherhood Wrath were off at the fight when Greed/Ling ran in angrily. I wonder if Anime Greed managed to survive. I guess I never will find out.
"We can't afford a repeat of last time." Father said then with his super speed anime Pride was behind me with rope and in no time my hands were bound behind my back even though I had been struggling. I looked up at Bradley growling pure hate in my eyes.
"Now say goodbye April." Dante said harshly.
"Wait," Breeze said then turned to face me with a look of pure hate. "I still want to fight her. I was busy over there taking care of the trap I had to act. I want to give her one last fight." Dante nodded and replied,
"Yes this will be interesting her last memories as a human fighting her best friend." It sickened me to hear Dante was that evil. Breeze turned back to me and smirked saying,
"Well come on April, let's celebrate your last few minutes." Hearing Breeze former best friend say that really pained me. I shook my head.
"In case you haven't noticed, Breeze, Mustang isn't here so I have no reason to listen to you all. I'm sorry, but you should know by now I don't go down without a fight, I will never make this easy on any of you. And in case you haven't noticed my hands are bound so even if I wanted to fight I still couldn't." I gave her a smug look.
"I told you to fight her." Mustang's voice boomed through the room I twirled around to see mustang standing not five feet from me. I didn't hear him come in meaning there was only one explanation.
"Nice try Envy, but someone as ugly as you will never be able to pass off as the colonel." He turned back into his palm tree form and yelled,
"HOW DARE YOU CALL ME UGLY, I OUGHT TO KILL YOU FOR THAT!" I snickered which seemed to infuriate him more, he reached out to grab me but Lust shot spears between us, coming within inches of me acting as a barrier. Envy stepped back and growling went to stand in the corner.
"I order you to fight me." Breeze said steadily. I shook my head slowly my face expressionless. Dante and Father were watching as if it was their favorite soap opera, being immortal doesn't change the fact they are old people I guess. "I said fight!" Breeze yelled losing her patience she clapped her hands and touched the ground a large rock lifted out of the ground and quickly flew across the room slamming me right in the face. The force made my head whip left and I fell back completely knocked off the ground, where I slammed the ground, the rock flying back into the wall behind me. Everyone stared the homunculi and the old ones disbelief changing to amusement. I stood up doing my best to show I wasn't fazed by the attack. Breeze seemed disgusted with what she did for a second but then her face changed back to anger when I still wouldn't fight her. "AGGGGH!" she yelled in frustration as she clapped her hands and grabbed the ground. This time multiple rocks flew up and at me.
I realized her alchemy shouldn't be that good. Then I noticed a red glint from her pocket, a philosopher's stone I assumed. With my hands still bound I dashed off to my right, avoiding a huge rock slab almost as large as me. Then I slid to a stop and used the momentum to do a back flip away from the rock that zoomed right in front of me. I turned back to face Breeze only to see a rock flying right at me too close to avoid. I prepared my stance and leaped up as high as I could, because the rock was aimed a bit low and would have hit my leg, I managed to jump over it. More rocks came at me but I didn't move they all missed and hit the wall a few feet away from me, on all sides. Deep down I knew I shouldn't be able to do that type of aerial maneuvers and I knew the only reason I could was because this was an anime.
I wasn't as weak as I should be. Silently I thanked that little piece of luck, it made me strong and it made me feel invincible. Suddenly a thought crossed my mind, one I had been shoving to the back of my head. I don't want to die with my best friend hating me. I sighed and looked at Breeze.
"Alright Breeze, alright." I said as if I were trying to clam a preschooler. "You win, I will fight you." A perplexed look crossed her face but was quickly replaced by determination. "But first I need these removed." I said raising my hands as far as I could. Breeze looked over at Lust and she shot a spear at me coming close to slicing my arm but I moved and in one swift motion it cut my restraints. The rope fell to the ground and I rubbed my sore wrists.
"Let's do this then." Breeze said. I looked up at her tilted my head like whatever then looked at Father and Dante and asked,
"You wanted a show? Well I'll give you a show." I dashed at Breeze taking the first attack, I punched at her but she managed to block it. I kicked out and hit her right in the shin she jumped back and then clapped her hands, throwing them to the ground. The floor under me began to shake and rise.
"You forget I saw it too." I clapped my hands and hit the floor and it crashed down at my counter alchemy but began rising do to the fact she had a philosophers stone. I leaped off onto the normal ground and clapped my hands, making a large piece of ground block the oncoming stone attacks. Then I ran at Breeze grabbed her arm and spun around behind her till I was holding her arms behind her back.
"Why are you doing this?" I asked.
"I'm tired of living in your shadow." Breeze muttered to me angrily. The power must have begun to rush through her because she suddenly got stronger and managed to turn on my grip and break free. She turned to look at me and continued, "You always had the perfect life, but you were always so ungrateful. Perfect friends, perfect fighting, perfect alchemy, always the star of school,"
"Perfect Friends?" I asked "Would you really call yourself a perfect friend? You aren't a good friend"
"Well you were never a good sister." Breeze said not missing a beat. I froze and asked,
"What do you mean? We aren't actually related."
"Amanda told me, our parents divorced when we were really little, they both remarried and passed off as our biological parents, and we never got to learn the difference." I was frozen in shock as she continued, "She figured it out at family reunions when she heard her parents talking about mine and there little fraud." Anytime before this I would have celebrated Breeze being my sister, but now it was torture being related to a traitor. "Shocking isn't it? Anyway you thought you had everyone fooled with your little angel act, but underneath I can see you're useless, it was all an act that people couldn't see through. But I saw through it. And I'm tired of being known as April's friend when you aren't even that great. I'm tired of being second class to someone as stupid as you." I snickered, then smiled and replied,
"Wouldn't you say you're drowning in your imperfections?" she looked at me in shock, then let out a frustrated cry from me turning our favorite song against her.
(For those of you, who don't know skillet that was from a song called imperfection, just remove the spaces YouTube. Com/watch?v=Ouj-xHhqbVw )
She growled and rushed at me and I blocked her and we stayed there a moment each of us trying to overpower the other.
"You fall to your knees, You beg, you plead, Can I be somebody else, For all the times I hate myself?" she shoved me and I stumbled back then as she ran at me I sidestepped behind her, and continued to say in a sing song voice. "Your failures devour your heart, in every hour; you're drowning in your imperfection." She growled again and ran at me I didn't move I stared at her with a goofy grin from turning her so angry with a few lyrics. She tackled me and pinned me to the ground, but I didn't struggle. She was breathing hard and I forced my breathing to slow.
"You barely even tried." Breeze observed.
"Oh did I?" I tried to lift my arm but then lowered it and said, "There I fought you."
"Why won't you just TRY?" Breeze yelled
"Because I won't give you another reason to hate me!" I yelled back her face twisted in shock and I continued calmly,
"I won't betray you like everyone else in our lives has." Her face was shocked, but only for a slight second.
"It sickens me to see you as such a goody two shoes."
"Get over it, I gave you the fight you asked for as a farewell gift, I'll call it, and no matter what I won't fight you again." Breeze growled then reached over and grabbed the rope that was lying on the ground beside her.
"Have it your way, Good bye April." She tied my arms behind my back they were tight enough I couldn't get out but not as strong as they could have been. Breeze stepped away from me and I pulled myself into a sitting position. Breeze gave brotherhood sloth a look and before I could completely stand up, a large shadow hovered over me.
"Such a pain," Sloth muttered. He reached down, picked me up, and slung me over his shoulder. He walked over to Father and dumped me on the ground, muttered something about sleep, then walked four feet and fell asleep standing. I stared at him in disbelief but shook it off...and it was then I realized Father was standing over me his third eye open a red glop of stone in his hand. He began reaching for the cut on my cheek. There was no point fighting it this time. My best chance would be trying to pull a Ling and if I got lucky have some say in what the new Lust would try to do. Suddenly there was a quick tapping and something slammed into me and pulled me at least four yards away from Father. I looked up into the face of Breeze…BREEZE! She took a defensive position over me and she stared off at the bad guys, watching for them to make a move.
"Get up," she whispered, and I hurriedly stood. She pulled a lose sting on the rope and they fell off like nothing. I was so happy to finally have her back.
"This is an interesting twist to the story." Dante said, "We were going to wait until we used the other two, but I guess we can use you now." Father put his hand on the ground and a huge circle appeared surrounding Breeze and Dante. She clapped her hands and reached down to claim her new body. I reached out, grabbed Breeze by the back of her shirt, and pulled her back away from the circle just as a light filled the room, but nothing happened with nothing to transmute. I glanced over at Breeze and said,
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"I've still got the sonic if you've still got the boom." (If you know what that's from you are awesome) Breeze smiled at me. Her eyes no longer filled with hate and disgust. We looked back at the homunculi, the old man, and the hag. We dashed off in different directions, Breeze to the left, me to the right. Little wrath made a spike jut out from the wall in front of Breeze but she ducked under it and didn't slow her run. While Brotherhood sloth swung a punch at me his punch came up short, but the chain made it plenty. It began digging into the wall pulling it up, but I jumped onto the wall and kicked off, making it over. We both came up on different sides of Envy and punched him in the side of his face after he recovered from that, he spun to us and was really angry.
"Shall we?" I asked Breeze and motioned to the door and we took off full speed for our way out. Envy chased us, but wasn't doing such a great job of keeping up until Bradley ran up to us with his super speed. I ducked as he swung his sword, but it still pinned me to the wall behind me and I was stuck. He reached out to get Breeze with the other hang, but I grabbed his arm and messed up his angle, so he missed. Breeze looked back at me terror showing clearly on her face fear for what would become of me.
"April," she muttered. She tried to reach for me but I yelled,
"No you idiot just run! LOOK OUT!" she looked up to see Bradley standing right beside her and she jumped away, and ran to the other end of the hall where she stopped. She looked back at me, just as Envy ran up to me and claimed his revenge for my half of the sonic boom. He punched me in the stomach and black spots danced across my field of vision. "Get out of here!" I continued to yell to Breeze, clenching my teeth to the pain.
"Shut up!" Envy shouted angrily and slammed my head into the wall. I clenched my teeth harder and looked over at Breeze'…wait...where is she?' Envy was pulled roughly back away from me and Breeze grabbed the sword and pulled it out. It had mostly caught the sleeve of my shirt, but it had skimmed my arm and a small not serious cut crossed my arm about an inch and began oozing blood. Without the sword pinning me up I nearly fell, but I grabbed Breeze's shoulder to stay up and muttered to her,
"Why? I'll just slow you down."
"Now what kind of older sister would I be if I let you die?" she asked sweetly. I snickered at her fake innocence, then to my surprise the wall burst open in front of me and I saw people there silhouetted in the light, but I blacked out before I could identify them.
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