Tears of Love:
Previously: Ash confronted Samara and tried to stop her from hurting MOMO, but Samara pushed Ash into the well and was going to do the same with MOMO. A blast of red light erupted from the murky depths of the well and a demonic version of Ash crawled out and challenged Samara to a series of games. They started their little tournament with a game of Truth or Lies, of course the possessed body of Ash won when his telling the truth defeated Samara's telling lies making the score, Good-1, Evil-0. Now LET THE FIGHT CONTINUE!!
Samara noticed a little change in Necros' appearance; he seemed to look a bit more human than before, during the previous game. "Why do you look more like a human than you did before?" She asked.
"Weren't you paying attention when I said I was going to let the boy decide what should happen to you when you lose?" Necros asked showing signs of his infamous sadistic attitude, "Every time I win a game the boy regains consciousness along with some control of his body. But if I lose, I mutate into my true form and I'll leave you here in chains of thorns and a nice friendly puppet to keep you company."
"I see," Samara said, apparently trying to catch on, "so you become more of a 'softy.'"
"You wish." Necros chuckled sinisterly, "Now the next game is Lightning Tag, I'll be it. The first one struck by lightning loses."
The field turned into a power plant with high power line towers and electrical wires crisscrossing the floor; apparently Necros was influencing a no flying rule for him as well as an anti-liquification rule applying to Samara. Seismoveiw was hovering this event; he was covered in rubber and had two lightning rods on his sides to insure that the electrostatic discharges that would soon fall from the heavens wouldn't do any permanent damage to his circuitry. "Ready, 3…2…1…Begin!" He said as the game began.
Samara felt the electricity crackling from through the ground. Darn that freak, She thought, he thought up everything. Now I can't liquefy and try to avoid the lightning. If I liquefy now I'll lose by default. She gazed up at the sky and focused on the power line towers and smirked. Unfortunately, he can't fly. So that means he probably wants an even fight.
Samara was wrong, Necros still had his animal instinct and his ground based demon powers to give him a tiny advantage. Lightning bolts hit the towers and traveled down the wires turning the ground into a death trap. Samara only had the jumping abilities of a standard human whereas Necros had the ability of selective transmutation to give him the super human jumping ability and speed to put him in the safety zone. The mark on his face was also an advantage for him, when he was in the middle of a deadly electrical storm he would often spread it across his face and down his back and into his legs to give him an extra burst of speed and outrun his prey and pin them up against a tall metal object until a lightning bolt or balled lightning hit the object and the current traveled down towards the creature. At that point, Necros would remove his foot from his prey and watch the creature be electrocuted and listen to it scream in agony. He knew that trying that move on Samara would not work so easily; after all, he didn't want to fry his host body's soon to be adopted sister. He waited for the lightning to strike, when it did Necros dashed forward making sure that he avoided the electrical wires so he wouldn't strike out.
Samara wasn't fairing so well, because the electrostatic interference disabled her teleportation ability. She decided to move from square to square between lightning strikes. She soon found a subterranean passage going under the playing field and figured that she would sit out the game and reemerge when Necros had lost. She jumped into the pit and found it dark and quiet, just how she liked it. She heard what sounded like something breathing, it wasn't human though, Did that thing follow me in? She asked herself, she listened more carefully, No, he's been in here longer than I have. It sounds like he's been in here since the game started. Up there, I was playing against a duplicate, why didn't I know that?
Necros was an excellent night hunter, he had eyes that could locate a heat signature, seek a spirit, and paralyze a living or undead creature to the point that it was going to scream. Samara couldn't see in such intense darkness, so she had to rely on her ears to find out where her enemy was. Necros waited patiently and heard her singing a haunting little melody that seemed to sound fairly appealing to his ears, but he couldn't let Samara hypnotize him into giving up. So he let out a high-pitched roar that deafened Samara making her ears and eyes virtually useless. Samara felt somewhat overwhelmed, she never had two living things facing against her at the same time. She was at a huge disadvantage; if she went up to the top, she'd have to deal with the lightning and the demonic duplicate, if she stayed in the tunnels, she'd be mutilated by the hunter. She was in a fix; she had no choice but to forfeit. She climbed slowly up the ladder onto the surface and started crying in defeat and said, "I give up, you've outsmarted me. I know when I'm beat."
The thick-legged Necros began to morph back into his human form and said, "I knew that you would go subterranean, so I planted a clone in the tunnels to threaten you. You should've stayed up here; you'd have stood a better chance of winning. I would've taken the fall instead of you if you'd were in the path of the lightning." He began to see some joy in Samara's expression, "I can see that you're somewhat happy for losing. Well I'm glad you're finally starting to like my suggestion. You're going to have a good life with Ash as your big brother. You couldn't ask for a better influence on yourself."
"If you say so." Samara said, "But enough about that."
"You're right," Necros said, "The next game is a 5 mile race. I hope you can run as fast as me."
Seismoveiw was hovering again so he could get to the finish line before the two contenders and declare the winner. "Ready, 3…2…1…GO!"
Necros shot off like a rocket leaving Samara in his dust. Samara tried using her teleportation; but every time she did, she ended up behind the starting line. Her chances of winning were bleak and getting bleaker. "Looks like I might as well do this the old fashioned way, by running." She said.
"You'll never catch up to him at this rate." MOMO said, "But if you lose, I'll be happy to be your friend when this is all over."
"That would be nice." Samara said as she turned and ran towards a seemingly impossible goal. When Samara was only half way done with the race she felt a strange pain in her chest and tears of some sort were welling up in her eyes. She couldn't forget the warmth that she felt when MOMO offered to be her friend, no one had ever been that nice to her before and now she was tearing up and beginning to cry tears of joy and loneliness. She reached the finish line and saw that Necros was already finished. Samara noticed that Necros was one hundred percent human now. "Well," She said, "I can see that the you're back to normal, Ash."
"Not entirely," The boy said as he opened his eyes, "look at the way my eyes and you'll notice that I'm still awake and my vessel is still sleeping, so you will have to wait until tomorrow to talk to him. Remember, you're supposed to lose this event so you can be freed from this purgatory." When the boy's eyes were still the same dark purple surrounded by red irises with plenty of blood lust left to spare.
"So I just need to lose one more time to be free of this loneliness?" Samara asked.
"That's right." Necros said, "But if you win, YOU'LL BE TRAPPED HERE FOR THE REST OF ETERNITY!" Necros was still roused up by games they had been in and was starting to go a little crazy, he turned and walked away breathing heavily with draconic fury and outrageous insanity.
MOMO walked up behind Samara, put her hand around Samara's shoulders, and said, "Don't worry, he won't do anything too serious for the last event. But my best guess is that he'll choose a fight to the finish with no forfeits allowed. He's an evil predator with a mind as twisted and dark as yours. But if he tries to kill you, I'm confident that Ash will step in and take over."
Samara couldn't sleep that night, the images of a demon made of pure darkness, evil, hate, and rage. Its eyes were a deep shade of purple surrounded by crimson red eyeballs. Its mouth was laced with a row of long razor sharp teeth, which put its mouth in a permanent evil smile that struck fear into the hearts of even the bravest soul. Samara was so terrified that she woke up and began sobbing.
MOMO heard Samara and walked into the room she was sleeping in and asked, "What's wrong Samara?"
"I can't sleep," Samara said wiping the tears from her face, "I keep having the same nightmares over and over again, and no matter how many methods I try, the nightmare won't end. I'm normally the one who causes nightmares that won't go away, but this nightmare always has the same outcome. I can't run, hide, or fight back with my powers. I want my mommy."
"I know how you feel." MOMO said, "I miss my mommy too, if your having any troubles with these nightmares, I'll sing you lullaby."
"Okay," Samara said looking at MOMO with anticipation.
MOMO began to sing a popular lullaby that slowly lulled Samara into a peaceful sleep.
"Hush, little baby, don't say a word
Mama's gonna buy you a mocking bird
If that mocking bird don't sing
Mama's gonna buy you a diamond ring
If that diamond ring turns brass,
Mama's gonna buy you a looking glass
If that looking glass gets broke
Mama's gonna buy you a billy goat
If that billy goat won't pull,
Mama's gonna buy you a cart and bull
If that cart and bull turn over,
Mama's gonna buy you a dog named Rover
If that dog named Rover won't bark,
Mama's gonna buy you a horse and cart
If that horse and cart fall down,
You'll still be the sweetest little baby in town"
Samara began snoring softly and the nightmares stopped for the rest of the night.
Man I who knew that MOMO would become friends with the girl who tried to kill her at the beginning of the story. But still I digress, this fanfic is probably gonna be my favorites. But that's my opinion. Now, I leave you, the readers to your work on critiqueing my story. Don't forget, I'm open for any and all ideas for a sequel to this story. Please continue to read and review this and other stories. 'Til next time!