Ch 31: Darkness
"God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God."- A.E.
Blake, Devin, Weiss, and I made our way to the main tower of Beacon. It only made sense that Cinder and Torchwick would be there. "Come on, If Yang and Ruby already made it up there, they will certainly need our help." I tell everyone as we make our way up to the top floor. As we reach the door to the entrance of the main tower's hall, I looked at everyone, they all seemed to be anxious, unsure of what's going to be on the other side of the door. "Alright guys let's get them, I mean there are only two of them." I joke as I open the door.
"What the fuck is that?" Devin says as we look into the large room. Right off the bat I notice an incapacitated Ruby and Yang. What the hell happened to them? My focus turns towards the center of the room where a glowing purple Cinder is laughing with Torchwick at her side.
"Look who finally made their way to the tippy top of the tower." Roman jokes as he levels his cane at us. "Now be a bunch of good kids and make this easy on the two of us, Ruby and Yang surely did."
"What did you do to them?" Yells Blake, worried about her teammates.
"Let's just say they won't be getting up anytime soon. Now Roman, will you please deal with them or will I have to." Says Cinder as Roman pulls the trigger on his cane, sending a volley of fire towards us. Before the round could hit us, however, Devin jumped in front. His hand formed some sort of wall of energy, diverting the force of the explosion around us.
Just as the smoke cleared Weiss jumped over him, striking her sword into the ground, sending a wall of ice towards Cinder. Who summons a wall of fire to counter the ice. Weiss looks in disbelief at the amount of fire that now engulfed the floor. "Don't just stand there princess, let's get them!" Yelled Devin as we all charged in towards Torchwick and Cinder. None of us noticing the clouds forming around the tower.
Roman fired off several more round which we all easily dodged. As we drew closer, we could practically feel the energy emitting from Cinder. Something isn't right.
Suddenly two balls of lightning burst through the openings of the room striking all four of us. So this is what knocked Ruby and Yang out.
I attempted to stand up, noticing that Devin was the only one still conscious. "The fuck was that!" I yell at Cinder as the two of us run at her and Torchwick.
Cinder ignites her palms into balls of fire. "Just something I have been working on," She smiles as she prepares for Devin and me to strike them. Devin attacks first, sweeping in front of him with his bladed staff. Cinder rolls to the side, however the blade manages to rip some of Torchwick's coat.
"You punk, you will pay for that." Torchwick yells at Devin as the two of them become engaged in hand to hand and close quarters combat. I, on the other hand, head straight for Cinder.
"Coming for the lady now are you?" Mutters Cinder as she swings at me with her inflamed fists. I dodge the blow and ignite my own right fist with fire while my left hand hold my sword. "Oh, now I see, fire is your thing too? I hope you like to burn!" Cinder grabs at my chest slightly burning the cloth around my chest piece. Damn, she is pretty good.
I quickly glance to my right to see Devin and Roman still locked in combat, neither one getting the upper hand. "Getting distracted are we?" Cinder grabs a hold of my right arm, burning it with her touch. "Funny how someone whose semblance involves fire, has burns all over them. I find it ironic." She then increases the flames on her hand, burning my arm even more. I quickly kicked her with my right leg, so she wouldn't melt through my skin to my bone. Damn this bitch is crazy.
I followed up my first kick with another which Cinder blocked with a kick with one of her heels. "Didn't you ever learn not to kick a girl with heels on?" She laughs as she spins her other leg around and catches my chin with the bottom of her heel. I feel my jaw basically shatter from the blow as blood starts trickling from my mouth. "Oh don't tell me you already had enough?"
Dazed and confused I fall to the ground. Clenching my jaw with my right hand, which no longer was ignited, I quickly looked over towards Devin who seemed to finally be getting the upper hand over Torchwick. "You are good kid, too bad good isn't enough to save you!" Torchwick yells at Devin as he kick his staff snapping it in half.
"Fuck you! That was my staff!" Yells Devin at Torchwick. Wilt and Blush, I can toss them to Devin.
Without hesitation I toss it across the room to Devin who catches it and fires it off into the air, then jumps up into the air and swings it downwards towards Roman who is in shock. The blade slices through the back of Roman's coat, narrowly missing his back and spine.
Roman's face turns red, from the fear of how close that last strike was. I then turn my attention to Cinder who was igniting her fists once again with red hot fire. She casually made her way over to me, taking her time since after that throw I had hardly any energy left in me. "Don't worry, you put up a good fight." Cinder says as she reaches down and grabs my own sword. Examining its fine craftsmanship she turns it towards me, inches from my neck. "It's really nothing personal, it's just good business Mako, and I have plans after I dispatch you."
I guess I have fought a good fight, never really expected to make it even this far. She gently places the tip of the blade in front of my trachea and I close my eyes, waiting for it to all end. "AHHHHHH!" I open my eyes to see Cinder on her back, Milo, Pyrrha's spear through her side. "You bitch!" Screams Cinder as she unleashes a firestorm towards Pyrrha.
Pyrrha quickly hides behind her shield, the flames being diverted around her. I take this quick opening to look at Devin. He finally had the upper hand and was on top of Torchwick, slowly punching him in the face, blow by blow. Each one connecting with, what I could imagine, an unimaginable amount of force.
Pyrrha gets out from behind her shield and runs towards Cinder. "This is for Jaune you witch!" Pyrrha elbows Cinder in the gut and the two continue to fight with their bare hands. Such brutality.
I then force myself to my feet and run over to Devin who was now strangling Torchwick. "Devin, don't do it, you already beat him." I begged him to stop from killing him with his bare hands. "We need to help Pyrrha!"
"No way Mako, I'm ending this right here, right now. There won't be a next time for him to try and hurt us." Devin's grasp around Torchwick's neck tightened as I swore it seemed like his eyes were going to pop out of his head. He continued to gasp for air, until Devin suddenly pulled up, snapping his neck.
"What the fuck!" I yell at Devin. "That wasn't even necessary..." I was cut off by what felt like a thousand volts of energy. I lost all control of my body as I collapsed and looked to my left. It seems Pyrrha is knocked out as well, Cinder got the best of her.
"Wow, you actually killed him." laughed Cinder as sparks began to emit from her hands. "Didn't think you had the balls to do that." The sparks suddenly begin to spray arcs of lightning at Devin. She is like a fuckin lightning rod or something.
"AARRGHHH!" Devin screams in pain as the lightning pulses inside of him. He falls down to his knees and continues to cry as Cinder is unrelenting, not ceasing her attacks. You could practically see his skeleton from the pure amount of energy that was flowing through his body. You have to do something, you can't let him die like this.
I struggle to my feet, hoping Cinder doesn't notice me, luckily she was too tied up in her moment as she continued to shock Devin. "So this is how "The Spirit" dies, crying in agony at my very feet." Laughs Cinder as Devin begs for mercy. I sprint towards Cinder, she quickly realizes what I was about to do, my sword in hand Suddenly, she dives beneath my attack towards Devin who was now collapsed on the ground.
She reaches for Wilt and Blush which lay next to Devin. Devin clenched onto them tightly as I prepared for my next sweeping attack. "Give it to me dammit!" Screams Cinder as she rips it from Devin grasps with ease and slashes at his neck. As I draw closer to her, my arms raised above my head with my sword in hand, I drive down towards her. What I wasn't expecting, was Cinder to block the blade, catching it with the bottom of one of her heels, in between the toe and the heel. Oh fuck.
She swings her leg around, my blade still caught in it, flinging it near Devin as it becomes stuck, blade down, into the floor. "Nice try..." Mutters Cinder as she plunges Wilt into my chest. I feel the crimson blade exit through my back, in a last ditch struggle I grab the part of the blade that is stuck in my chest. I squeeze, grasping as hard as I could, the blood seeping from my right hand, as Cinder merely watched at my hopeless struggle.
My vision begins to fade in and out, everything turned into a blur. Yet right before I felt I was going to lose conscious, I feel the blade give way, snapping beneath my grasp. Cinder, too shocked to react quickly enough, does nothing as I pull the snapped end of the blade out of my chest cavity. Now soaked in blood I guide the blade with my left hand into Cinder's gut.
She squeals in discomfort as I twist the blade slowly, "You had this coming you bitch." I say slowly as I grit my teeth. Through the vibrations of the blade I can practically feel the damage the plunging attack had down to her insides, she wasn't going to harm anyone else. Finally at peace with what I had done I take a deep breath, and close my eyes. Embracing the moment of peace.
So do you all like the ending? Are you pissed off with it? Leave a Review if you want me to hear your opinion. Still have one more chapter, got to tie up some lose ends, so expect that very soon.
Meanwhile I am about to submit my first few chapters of Broken Body and Minds Prequel. So expect that also sometime this month. In addition to the prequel, I will be submitting the first 5 chapter of my Volume 2 Canon fanfic which will contain a few OCs from UnanimousMusician's most recent story, so go check his profile out.