BF 5
BGW: Brick Gone Wild part 2
Blossom practically drooled over the PC official spiked wristlet, and the first "sold out" concert sign- which some fans had offensively beaten up. She awed at the picture of Felicity with Linkin Park.
"It's so amazing."
"Check out the first ever boot signature she did!" Crow called. Blossom was at his side to gaze at the framed white T-shirt which bore the stamp of Felicity's boot.
"Here's a picture of Felicity with her fiancé!" Raven said, hovering toward the end of the collection. Blossom too to the air.
Sure enough, there was Felicity with her fiancé Lance Underwood, a straitlaced business man. They looked lovingly at each other.
"And their engagement ring..." Raven awed.
The official guide nodded reverently. "Fifteen karat, flush set. And leant to us for this day only. It's worth a fortune, since it's also the last ring that Marchello DeMarco made before his passing last year in December."
Blossom reverently hovered before it. "It's so simple and elegant, yet durable and able to withstand Felicity's power cords..."
"I'd kill to have a guy that dedicated to me he paid a fortune to make sure the token of his love stayed forever with me." Raven sighed.
"We sell replicas of the ring on that cart."
"Good!" Brick's voiced made Blossom's head snap up.
There he was only yards away. His arm was wrapped around Berserk, who wore his cap. They were together again?!
"I'll get you one for you funeral, Buzz-kill." Brick fired laser beams at her from his eyes.
Blossom was too shocked to react.
"B!" A dark aura engulfed her and she faded into the dark.
She appeared next to Crow. "Are you okay?" he demanded throwing up a shield.
Blossom blinked and powered up her ice punch. "I think so. Thanks, let me return the favor!" She launched herself at Berserk, who was currently smashing through Raven's mini shields.
The counterfeit chump went flying back into Brick's arms. "Thanks, Brick-y-poo..."
"No prob, Serka."
Serka?! Blossom blew her ice breath at the couple and caught the iced attackers before they fell. "Time to take this party outside!"
She threw them out the window and onto the beach. "You two have a lot of explaining to do."
Raven appeared on her right and Crow flanked her left. "Seems to me, these two want a tussle."
Berserk and Brick didn't stay on ice long; Brick laser vision cut through the ice like butter and he crawled out, helping Berserk out too.
"Try a breath mint next time, loser; that is if you survive." Berserk taunted.
"I don't want to fight you two." Blossom voiced, trying to hold back her temper.
"And I don't want to look at your face!" Brick shot back. What was up with him?! He was acting like they were eight again.
"We'll take Brick head. You get the slut." Raven suggested.
"The brainless wonder I can handle." Blossom charged at Berserk, and effectively separated her from Brick's side. They tumbled through the sand and wind, trading blows like the bikini-clad girls in that one episode of "Girls Gone Wild: Mud Smack Down Edition" she watched on a dare from Brick.
"What." Punch. "Did." Kick. "You Do." Chop. "To." Slap. "Brick." Blossom demanded.
"I." Knee to the stomach. "Did." Hair pulling. "Nothing." Berserk asserted.
Blossom detached from Berserk and glared hard at her counterfeit counterpart.
She was the opposite of Blossom in every way power-wise: where Blossom had ice breath, Berserk had fire breath like Brick; where Blossom could create things with her mind after concentrating hard enough, Berserk could banish them after concentrating hard enough.
They were opposites... What power did Blossom have that, if flipped, could make anyone evil. None she could think of with Berserk launching parasols at her like missiles.
Calling up all her psionic energy control, Blossom conjured a pair of soft white wings to fly. Once airborne she launched down an array of feathers with sharp tips.
Berserk tried to block but it was no use. The feathers were unstoppable. Berserk suffered a K.O. for her Angel's Sentence attack.
"Now for Brick..." she muttered.
"Looking for me, f***ing b****!" Brick attacked from above with a spin kick meant to be lethal. Blossom barely dodged with her wings. She flew better without them, but she needed them for another Angel's Sentence.
She tried to shake him, but since they'd spent more than half a decade practicing aerial maneuvers together, it was impossible. In fact, he poured on the speed to deliver a punch to her lower abdomen to ground her. And if it hadn't been for Raven and Crow's combined mini-shield, it would have worked.
"What's wrong with you Brick?" Blossom demanded softly as Raven and Crow restrained him. "You're not acting like your normal self."
"What's wrong with me?!" Brick fumed. "You, you f***ing hag! You're the f*** what's wrong with me! Always clinging like a virus. I never get to be me anymore!"
Blossom's flight stability faltered. "Yeah! You broke us up in the first place!" Berserk yelled from the ground, probably still pinned there.
"I-I- I didn't-"
"Being good... Helping others... Caring... You turned me into a male copy of yourself! You f***ing sick b****! Go to hell with that f***ing confession about loving me. You only want to mold me into a goodie-goodie!"
Blossom never saw it coming. The color in her vision was fading fast.
"Blossom!"
"B!"
She felt someone grab her wings, tight. "Or better yet..." Brick hissed in her ear. "Let me send you there!"
A wet, sticky rip sound sliced through the howling wind, followed quickly by a blood curdling scream of pain and loss.
"Blossom!"
"B!"
Blossom's body fell onto the sand with a dull thud. Her long fiery auburn hair faded to a dull silver. The light of her eyes gone, they too were now grey. The night fell silent as Blossom very heart turned to ash inside her chest.
"You never f***ing knew me; and you can keep your f***ing love." Brick's voice said shortly before thunder crackled overhead.
"She's bleeding fast, Rae. Let's get her out of here."
"Right; I'll alert her sisters. Blossom, please be okay..."
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Bubbles suddenly startled away from Boomer's chest. Shivers rocked her body. "Something's wrong with Blossom!" she screamed.
"Bubbs! Calm down..." Boomer's arms encircled.
Bubbles shook her head. "No! I know something's wrong with her! I can feel it."
Suddenly her phone rang and Blossom's ring tone, "Butterfly" by DDR, filled the air. "Blossom!" she yelled into the phone. "Are you okay?"
After a moment of silence, an unexpected voice said, "Bubbles, please listen to me calmly. Where are you?"
"Raven! Oh, I'm in the basement with Boomer. Why do you have Blossom's cell? Is that what my sister sense was telling me? She lost her cell?!"
Another moment of silence. "Bubbles, in a moment, a vortex is going to open by you. Jump in." With that she was gone.
"That was odd. It was Raven on the phone. She wants us to jump into a vortex. Oh, there it is." Bubbles clamored toward it.
"But Raven sounded funny. All shaken up and disturbed; kind of sad."
"Doesn't she always..." Boomer muttered.
And so, hand in hand, the blue couple jumped.
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BC jolted away from Butch's side and frowned at the niggling feeling in her stomach. "I feel like Blossom needs me right now."
Butch frowned, forest green eyes flashing. "She's got Brick."
BC slumped. "Your right; but I just want to check." She flipped out her phone.
Butch scoffed. "Fine, but your the one ruining our date this time."
BC reddened. "I'll take my chances..." Suddenly, her phone went off in her hands, Blossom's ring tone: Impossible Days, by Pink Carnage, ringing out.
She quickly answered. "Blossom, are you okay?"
A moment later, Raven's voice said. "Buttercup, where are you?"
"Why are you on Blossom's phone?!" she retorted.
"Not important right now; just tell me where you are. Blossom is in dire condition right now."
"Up at the old lighthouse behind the hotel." BC answered obediently.
Blossom in a dire enough condition as to not call herself was reason enough. "Jump into the vortex that opens up near you." And Raven hung up.
"What's wrong?" Butch put a reassuring hand on her shoulder.
"I don't know but Blossom's in dire condition. That's enough for me."
Butch nodded as the vortex swirled into being. "Then it's enough for me too. Let's go."
The green couple jumped in too.
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Blossom awoke to whispered outrage.
"Berserk and Brick did this?!"
"Why would Brick attack her?!"
Bubbles... Buttercup...
"We were there. But we couldn't stop them..."
"Damn it!" The thump of a fist against dry wall made her open her eyes.
The grey abyss that she'd endured for what felt like a lifetime faded away to color and vivid sensations, the most pressing one being the twin pains she felt on her back. Instantly, she sat up.
"B!" Crow was at her side in moments, along with Raven.
She tried to give them a smile. But she felt it faltered before it even manifested. "I'm okay..." she said instead.
"What happened?!" Bubbles demanded, coming to her side.
"Was it really Brick?"
"If it was, I'll crush his head." Butch ground his fists together.
Blossom touched her head and frowned. There was a cap on her head. As she reached to pull it off, Raven stopped her.
"Something really weird happened when your wings were ripped out... You might be shocked." Raven warned.
"I can take it." My heart is already...
She slid the cap off and gasped as a waterfall of silver- not auburn- hair tumbled down. "My hair..."
"It's still amazing." Bubbles said. She combed her hands through the silvery tresses, and held them up to Blossom's eyes. "See?"
The silver waves were beautiful. But like the ash her heart had become, they only reminded her of how quickly the fire in her heart had disappeared. The silver was beautiful, but it was just a beautiful ash- the lingering reminder that her fire, the very spark she'd had since she was created, had left her hollow and broken; unable to house another flame...
Sobs wracked her body. Her chest wrenched in pain. "Why?" she cried out. She couldn't breathe, couldn't think. All she could do was cry. Brick Jojo had down as promised: he'd killed her and sent her to Hell.
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Brick welcomed his brothers' punches. In fact he relished in them. He didn't even fight back. He just felt.
Even as blood dripped from his nose, his eyes swelled from pain; even as his very being screamed to fight back, retaliate, he took it all. After what he'd done... He only wished for death.
Just as Boomer uppercut him into the air, someone screamed, "Stop it!"
Brick fell back onto the wet sand,barely breathing, looking up at his brothers, who in turn stared down in contempt.
It was Raven. She knelt next to him and touched his forehead. He winced as her cool fingers sailed over the bruise.
He felt as if someone were probing his mind. "Show me what happened," demanded Raven's voice only she wasn't talking.
Instantly, pain wrenched his mind as he relived all he'd done to Blossom. All the hateful things... He groaned as seizures shook his frame.
Finally they quieted. Distantly he heard Raven say, "He's not at fault after all..."
"We saw him, Rae." Crow's voice seemed bloodthirsty.
"And I saw what really happened. Let's go, he's just a tool, a pawn in the real bad guy's game."
"So who do we lynch?" Buttercup demanded.
"The counterfeit: Berserk."
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AnimeKitty: Net chapter we hear Berserk sing, and watch her get beat up. Life is wonderful... Review please.