Another short chapter! YAY! This one is crazy. I decided to alter the plot a little, mainly because of some comments that show a lack of support for Elias.
I love writing this story, i'm either eating, sleeping or writing. (yes, even at school , i'm the only guy with a composition notebook. :)
To all the readers, you guys rock.
To all the non-reviewers, you guys rock too. (don't tell the reviewers!)
Also, my friend, when reading this story, told me: "He must listen to some crazy music." She then demanded that i create a play list for Antoine, one song for each chapter, i'll show that at the end, After the chapter.
This is the big conflict channel, the truth comes out. Elias vs. Antoine , the fight of a lifetime! (but really tame to what's coming up.) this chapter could be longer, but i like the ending how it is.
"Run that by me again." Elias stepped towards Antoine; he dug a finger in one ear. "I don't think I heard you right." He chuckled ominously; his voice had a panicked tone. "Because for some reason it sounds like you said you're going to call the Freedom Fighters. But that's not what you said, right?"
Antoine held his ground; he knew Elias wouldn't try anything against him. "That's what I said." He continued to dial the number. "Based on what you told me, they're our only hope." When he finished dialing, he held the receiver up to his ear.
"No!" Elias bounded forward in a fit of rage, in a rare act of strength he grabbed the stationary phone, lifted it up, and threw it across the floor. He turned, his face contorted in pure wrath. "What the fuck?" His voice rose until it was a yell. "We don't need to call them; I am not getting help from a bunch of vagabonds!" He pointed at Antoine. "You may have been one of them, but that was then. Now you are a lieutenant in the Royal Army!" The Prince advanced, bringing Ant within striking distance.
"Are you calling the freedom fighters vagabonds?" Antoine was disgusted by this insult. "We've saved this Kingdom's ass so many times, it's not even funny!" Ant started to yell also. "Why don't you want our help?"
"We don't need their help!"
"Bullshit!" Ant closed the distance between them; they were in each other's face. "You know that we're the only ones with the ability to fight the D.E.L." Ant whirled around; trying to understand what was going on. "Wait a minute…"
Elias grew impatient. "Antoine, for the first time would you just follow orders? You have no right to question my authority!" The word authority clicked in Ant's brain.
"That's it! You don't want the Freedom Fighters to help because Sally would get all the credit for saving your ass!" Ant pointed accusingly at the Prince. "You don't want her to show you up!" He shook his head in disbelief, remembering their earlier conversation. "I guess that's the 'Prince thing' you mentioned earlier." He continued on. "And what about the King, are you afraid of disappointing Daddy?" Antoine's tone shifted to mocking.
"Fuck you! I have sacrificed so much for this kingdom! You wouldn't even begin to understand!"
"Like what, live in a mansion?" Ant was pissed; he didn't care about the consequences.
"I don't have to tell you, you fucking maniac!" Elias spat.
"Oh real nice, make fun of the guy who's got a voice in his head that tells him to kill people!"
"Tells him to what?" Elias didn't remember Ant mentioning that.
"Don't change the subject! I'm sick of your shit, you spoiled little prick!" Ant was angry, not just for himself, but also the other troops. "You drafted a bunch of kids! And for what, was it to satisfy your father?"
"I did it for Mobius!"
"Cut the crap! You did it for yourself. You did it because you're afraid of failure more than anything!" Antoine started to giggle. "And Antoine started to giggle, a mixture of insanity and severe depression. "And you used to be such a great guy! Hell, I looked up to you!" There was a threat of tears for Antoine, but it was just a threat.
"How touching." Elias took the sincere words and shot them down. "And I used to trust you!" He spoke flatly. "This is how the world works, Antoine. And if you're unwilling to get along, then you're just a liability."
"A liability?" Ant was furious. "Because I'm unwilling to let you get these men killed because you have father issues?"
Elias was red with rage. "Would you cut the 'father issues' crap?" He yelled. "This isn't about my father; this is about the Kingdom as a whole!"
Antoine's voice was suddenly quiet, each word spaced out in a crescendo of rage. "I am sick, and tired, of you, trying, to, lie to me!" He screamed, he grabbed the Prince by the collar. "Why can't you just say it? Why can't you just fucking admit, that the only reason you're here, is to protect your power! Just sayit!" He shook the Prince furiously, who responded by smashing the coyote in the forehead with his fist, sending him sprawling.
"Don't ever touch me, you freak!" Elias let it all loose, unleashing a stream of verbal abuse. "You insane shit! I can't believe I put up with all of this for so long, I even defended you! I prevented my father from having you killed!" He didn't care that he just revealed extremely sensitive information, in the heat of the moment he just wanted to hurt Ant, who still had not got up. Elias felt his whole world crumbling; the last person he trusted at all just deserted him. He stood over Ant, continuing to hurl insults at the downed Lieutenant.
Ant steadily rose to his feet, shaking slightly. His head pounded, and he felt himself trapped on the inside, looking out. He spoke with absolutely no emotion in his voice. "Are you telling me that King Max wanted me to die?"
"Yes! The Truth is out!" The prince threw his hands up, exasperated. "Now you see what the world really is!"
"Oh this is too good." Antoine rubbed his hands together. "Now do we see what we were saying?"
Elias was going to continue his sarcastic confession, but he was distracted by the weird grammar. "Wait, what?"
"Well, it seems that we agree with us." Antoine stepped forward, putting the two 'comrades' once again face to face.
"What's with the weird grammar?" Elias was slightly creeped out.
"Sorry, Prince but we must decline your offer to stay here and help, we have better things to do." Antoine grinned, pure insanity etched on his face.
"You don't have a choice!" Elias was infuriated. He refused to allow Ant to humiliate him like this.
"Yeah, we do. We choose to leave." Ant turned to leave, nonchalantly walking away. "we're going to Knothole to get the Freedom Fighters."
"Come Back Here!" Elias screamed, reacting to the sudden loss of power. "I swear to GOD, if you don't stop right where you stand…" Elias whipped out his sidearm, a mostly ceremonial pistol, but it still shot, and that's all that mattered. "… I'll shoot you for insubordination!" He grinned; maybe Antoine wasn't the only crazy one.
"Oh c'mon man, you won't shoot us." Ant was surprisingly unafraid, mainly because Ant had just lost control. He took a few slow steps, arms outstretched, toward the Prince. "We'll play nice."
"Yeah, that's what I thought." Even with Ant's promise, Elias didn't lower his weapon. The pistol remained leveled, a shot fired would enter Ant's forehead, piercing the metal plate, killing him instantly. But Ant would make sure not to give him that chance.
OH SNAP
A cliffhanger, i like those. If i was a jerk, i would refuse to update for a while, just to make you suffer, but i wont.
I hope the next chapter doesn't suck! have a nice day, thanks for reading.
Here's that list i mentioned
ch.1 the General - Dispatch
ch.2 No more Guy - Alice Cooper
ch.3 War Pigs - black sabbath
ch.4 Another Brick in the Wall pt.2 - Pink Floyd
ch.5 Sweet Emotion - Aerosmith
ch.6 Paint it Black - Rolling Stones
ch.7 Shot in the Dark - Ozzy
ch.8 Crazy - Gnarles Barkley
ch.9 Seek and Destroy - Metallica
ch.10 Paint it black - Rolling Stones
ch.11 Stranglehold - Ted Nugent
ch.12 Broken Hearts are for Assholes - Frank Zappa
ch.13 Paranoid - Black Sabbath
ch.14 Rock you like a Hurricane - Scorpions
ch.15 Stylo - Gorillaz
ch.16 Carry on Wayward son - Kansas
ch.17 Killing in the name - Rage against the Machine