Petrified World
Disclaimer: I do not own Super Smash Brothers Brawl or any of the characters. I only own Sun-Wong, Isaak, Himeno, Roger, Aqua, Mcenche, Pepper, Li, Abbigale, Queen Neptune, Prince Pluto, Emperor Apollo, Queen Hinata, Queen Zoe, Prince Henry, Queen Crystal, Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter and the little bat Hoshi-Tsuki but not who he is. Zelina and Sao belong to Zelina56. I also own Nina, Serenade, Fuyumi, Ian, Wright, the arch-angels and the Angel Assembly.
Summary: And so does the end of the world begins. Is this really the end for everyone or is there a secret to restoring the petrified world now inhabited by the undead? And will Isaak bring himself to attack Li?
Me: And so will I continue. I'm in an angst mood. I can't write humor at the moment. If I did, I think it would be cruel humor. Enjoy the short chapter and continue to cry.
Chapter 30: Petrified World
After hearing Shadow's story of how he, Lucas and Stafy went missing, Gary felt this painful jolt in his heart. He never had this horrible feeling inside him unless something really bad happened to Ash. The Kanto Researcher remember this feeling this one night shortly after he met Ash again in Viridian City and again in Pallet Town. He was raising his Arcanine when he felt a sudden jolt in his heart. He thought it was nothing and it seemed to be nothing when he saw Ash again when the tournament at the Indigo Plateau began, but that was far from the case. Now he was having another shock and he was far away from the Pokémon Trainer.
"Blue, are you okay?" Lucas questioned in worry.
"I'm fine..." Gary murmured, "I just had this horrible feeling."
A horrible feeling indeed. When the Smashers and assist trophies got out of Lucas' room, Kirby came running at top speed and knocked over Lucas.
"Oww!" Lucas cried.
"Poyo..." Kirby murmured.
He was followed by the other Pokémon, Master and Crazy Hand in human form.
"Lucas, Shadow, Stafy! You guys are okay!" Crazy announced, "We thought you were-"
"Never," Shadow interrupted as he looked around. Lyn was nowhere to be found. Neither was the good doctor, "Where's Lyn?"
It was really quiet as Crazy Hand shook his head. Master Hand held out a trophy which was Dr. Mario. They gasped.
"I went into the infirmary to check up on this familiar aura and this what I found. This evil being turned Dr. Mario into a trophy. Lyndis is nowhere to be found."
Shadow slowly turned his attention away from Master; his fists shaking in anger. Dammit! I lost someone again. He thought to himself. First Maria, then Molly...I can't lose her now...if I do...
"That's not why we came here though," Master Hand said calmly, "Look outside."
The Smashers were confused. Crazy Hand went to the window and drew the curtains. The Smashers and assist trophies looked out the window. Their eyes widened in horror.
Outside, life was dying in front of them. Tokyo was now a shade of gray. Everything in the city was frozen in time. The smoke from factories for example didn't get a chance to go into the o-zone layer. The sky was dark purple but it switched between that dark color and gray to show that the petrification was still going on. The hills became a pallet color. Everything outside looked like an old black and white movie.
"Oh my God..." Lucario mumbled.
Gary instantly turned to Master Hand and asked, "What's going on?"
Master Hand gave a doleful look, "Everything is grim," he answered, "They couldn't save Pit in time...and...this is...the result. A world created by the darkness in an Amail's heart."
The Smashers were confused.
"What's an Amail?" Kirby questioned innocently.
"It's one with the wings of an angel, the personality of the devil, and the heart of a human. Together they create a sin that shouldn't have been born because their parents didn't obey the law of Heaven or Hell or sin like humans do..."
"Brother...was lying whenever he said he needed info about Pit..." Crazy continued, "He already had his resources...but he wanted you guys to figure it out before all of this happened."
"But we didn't figure it out in time..." Lucario said as he looked outside. He punched the glass lightly, "I should have known there was something different about Pit. His aura was too different from everyone else's."
"Don't blame yourself Lucario," Mewtwo told him, "It will only lead to more depression."
Lucario glared at the psychic Pokémon, "Then tell me this you clone. How could you not notice that Pit was different from the rest of us?"
Mewtwo shook his head in annoyance, "I cannot read his mind."
"What?"
"I cannot read his mind. This Amail race seems to be able to block all mind readers from reading their mind."
"Then why didn't you tell us?"
"If I did, it would have made no difference."
Gary understood what he meant. Even if Mewtwo told them that he could not read Pit's mind and tell them that he was different, no one especially those closest to the angel would believe that their friend was of a dangerous race that could cause the end of the world as we know it.
"The world is at it's end," Master Hand continued.
"Isn't there anything we can do?" Lucas questioned.
Master Hand shook his head, "There is nothing we can do."
The Smashers and assist trophies were shocked.
"So what are we supposed to do? Just stand here and wait until that wave hits us and turns us into trophies or to stone or whatever? What about the others?" Lucario questioned. He was on the verge of losing it.
"They're dead now," Master Hand said sadly, "We cannot do anything about that unless the wave disappears."
"Dammit!"
Lucario was about to storm off when the Pokémon stopped him.
"Stand aside. I must help them."
"And get yourself killed?" Mewtwo asked, "Your aura alone cannot stop the petrification of the world."
"I have to go! I can't lose Wolf like I lost Sir Auron!"
Again, it was love that was making Lucario act this way. His normal, calm demeanor was gone due to the leader of Star Wolf being in danger.
This determination to go out there and die was affecting Kirby as well. He had to help Meta Knight, but what could a little pink puffball do against this petrifaction that was covering the world?
"Love will not save us," Mewtwo said harshly, "Instead, it will kill us if you let it take control."
Lucario growled as he looked at the floor. The older Pichu brother and Jigglypuff looked at each other in worry.
"Brother, it's coming here fast!" Crazy shouted.
"We have no choice," Master Hand began calmly, "Head to the infirmary and hide in that hidden room. It's the best place we can hide. And that's an order!"
The Smashers and assist trophies had no choice but to obey. They all rushed to the infirmary as fast as they could. They couldn't rely on the elevator so they took the long way which was the stairs. It was then did Gary realize something important.
"Where is Sonic?" he asked Master Hand.
There was this long pause as they continued running.
"He should still be in that capsule," Crazy Hand said. His tone of voice was definitely unsure of what happened to the blue hedgehog.
They reach the hidden room. There, they saw that the capsule was open and there was no hedgehog inside. Master Hand was panicking but fear didn't show on his face. Crazy did though.
"Oh no he's gone! There's no hope for us now!" Crazy said completely freaking out.
Master Hand had to slap his younger brother on the back to get him to stop making the others worry.
"He is still in this mansion Crazy! Don't lose yourself because of that."
Crazy Hand regained his cool and gave his older brother a worried look, "But what will we do if this evil being gets him."
"I don't know but Lady Yuna won't go down without a fight."
"Wrong..."
The voice was a girl. A very familiar one. The Smashers turned toward the stairs (as they were staying as far away from it as possible) to see Sonic or rather Yuna as those ribbons were hanging out behind the blue hedgehog again and one of Sonic's eyes was blue instead of green.
"Lady Yuna, I thought you were lost to the darkness," Master Hand said, "Or rather Sonic."
Yuna shook her head, "It came close. If it weren't for that mercenary, we both would have been wondering in eternal darkness and there would be no hope for this world, Heaven or any other world."
Gary turned away. He lost Pit and possibly the other Smashers and Ash and now he lost Ike. At this rate, he would lose everyone else and he would be alone. He was slowly starting to remember what happened during that incident with Team Galactic...
"Lady Yuna, you must have a plan to stop the petrification right?" Crazy asked in a hopeful tone.
Lady Yuna shook her head, "There is so much I can do in this body and stopping the world from dying is something I cannot do."
"Is Sonic's body not strong enough?" Shadow questioned. The black hedgehog assumed that the blue wonder would have plenty of energy in his body. Maybe recently he just lost it. It was possible though since Sonic lost the ability to speak.
"It is not strong enough," Yuna answered, "But it's not because he can't hold as much power I can posses. He is capable of holding that much power, but it's because of this dying world that I am not strong enough to save it."
"What do you mean?" Lucas asked.
"I am a summoner that brought hope and life to the people of Spira," Yuna explained, "I revived people. I saved lives. I gave them a brighter future. My power arose from that, but when a world is dying and is losing hope, I cannot do any of the above and my power weakens. The only thing I can do now...is stop our last hope from turning into trophies."
"How will you do that?" Master Hand questioned in a thoughtful tone.
Yuna smiled weakly.
"Very easily if you and everyone else stays here. I will go outside and protect this chamber. When the petrification reaches me, the entire world will be turned to stone except this room. With my power, you guys can turn those Smashers that were lost back into their original form. When everyone is assembled, I'm certain he will appear."
By he she meant Merlon. Merlon knew everything ever since Mario, Peach and Bowser saved the Mushroom Kingdom, Flipside, Flopside and technically every other world. They had to put their faith in these powerful magic users in order to defeat this evil.
"I will be going."
"WAIT!"
Yuna turned to see Gary giving her a look that was deprived of hope.
"What happens if you can't hold it off? What happens if you turn to stone! What will happen to Sonic?"
"Blue..." Lucas mumbled.
"I don't want to lose anyone important to me!"
Yuna nodded her head, "I will do my best not to let Sonic die. My Aeon will make sure of it as well."
"Huh?"
Yuna said no more as she went upstairs to protect the hidden room. Will she succeed is undetermined. You can only pray that High Summoner Yuna will prevail.
The war began in Heaven fifteen minutes ago but the battle was already intense. Swords were being clashed, Centurions and demons were falling from the sky after being slain. Blood was spilling everywhere, and more importantly, neither side was showing any signs of defeat yet.
Sun-Wong had it easy just extending his Nyoi-Boi and hitting demons that were out of his range and didn't suspect to get hit by a pole. If they got in close, he would use some of his earth magic to attack them, but Roger got to them before they had a chance to even harm the vice captain.
Roger was hacking away at the green demons cutting them in half with his big ass sword. He was getting very bored very easily.
Isaak continued to get farther away from the two angels. He was so distracted that he didn't even notice that he kept taking steps forward shooting at any demon that was near him. Lighting was surrounding him so he was untouched.
He eventually made it to the town and it seemed like the other royal bodyguards finished telling all the angels who couldn't fight back to stay in their homes. Most of the angels that were still outside were male angels that were fighting to protect their family. True honor there.
Isaak noticed something though. Someone was attacking the angels with dark magic. Only two people he knew learned those kind of spells. The first was Roger but the black angel focused too much on brute strength instead of using the dark forces to destroy his foes. That one spell was too familiar.
"Ω δυνάμεις του σκότους ... στείλει αυτές τις φτωχές ψυχές στον τάφο. Σας καλώ...SHADE!"
This dark energy beam appeared from the sky and hit multiple angels. All disintegrated instantly. Isaak's eyes widened in horror. A child with light green hair and gold eyes was in the way of one of the attack, so he had to act fast.
"Oh Licht so sehr hell," he began chanting, "Schild denen, die nicht ertragen können, die Feinde könnten. Ich appelliere an Sie... Blitzschlagschild!"
A lighting shield appeared in front of the small child blocking the attack of the dark energy beam. Isaak wasted no time as he ran over to the child and told him to run.
"Thank you Mr. Isaak!" He thanked weakly as he rushed off in another direction. Isaak assumed he knew where his parents were so...
"...You're the same as always Isaak. Always making sure little kids get back to their mommies safely."
Isaak's eyes widened. Did he hear the voice he thought he heard? He looked up. There the person he wanted to see for so long as healthy as could be. Li was everything he remembered him to be. Dark brown hair, red eyes, slim body, smooth looking legs, and black wings. The only thing that was missing was that confident smirk which was replaced with a sadistic (or sorrowful) grin.
He lost weight. Isaak thought to himself. It wasn't the time nor place to be thinking thoughts like that though, "Li-Li...you're still...alive..."
Li could see the expression on Isaak's face. He wanted to turn away from it but he couldn't. Glancing at the yellow angel, he saw that he changed psychically. He no longer had baby cheeks as he remember it. His face developed into a handsome young man with beautiful blue eyes. His wings were well groomed compared to when they were a kid. His hair has gotten longer but not as long where you could mistake the blonde as a girl.
You've gotten thinner. Li thought to himself. It's funny how both of them had identical thoughts of one another when it wasn't the time to think about the other losing a lot of weight and maturing over the years.
"I thought you were dead..."
Li forced himself to avoid eye contact with the blonde. Why did it hurt when Isaak told him that he was supposed to be dead?
"Well you and the stupid royal bodyguards are wrong. I'm alive and well no thanks to you!" Li spat. He was indeed angry, but he could tell that he didn't sound as angry as he should be, "It was lonely in Hell!"
Isaak was confused, "But we took your body back to Heaven and buried you..."
"You sent me back to Hell when you guys did that! God you're so stupid!"
Li felt his heart hurt lying to the blonde. Saying these things wouldn't make anything better and he wasn't even telling the truth.
"...Is that why when Pit and I went to seek Abbigale that we weren't able to revive you...because you were down there?"
Li stared at the ground. Isaak took this as a yes and felt terrible.
"Why...why did you guys...forget about me...?"
"Huh?"
"I trusted you guys with all my heart yet you replaced me with that...with that...monster!"
That was uncalled for. Sure Roger had more psychical strength than the other royal bodyguards and had a sharp tongue that made even Pepper cry but that did not make him a monster. A monster was a furry demon with five eyes, three heads and two mouths.
"What are you talking about Li-Li? We never replaced you with anybody!"
"Lies! You guys replaced me as soon as you recovered my so called dead body! Why didn't you check my pulse? Why didn't you check to make sure I was breathing instead of assuming I was dead?"
"We did Li-Li! There was no pulse! There was no heart beat! You weren't breathing! Your body was cold when I held you! There was nothing Li-Li! I really thought you were..."
This conversation was going nowhere. Both could deny what they were saying about the other but they couldn't change anything that happened. They both knew this, but they couldn't...
"Just shut up Isaak! You and the royal bodyguards are...liars! I...I..."
"Li-Li! You have to understand! We didn't forget you! We...were..."
"I HATE YOU!"
Isaak could only stare at the dark angel stunned. What hurt more than Aqua's sarcastic comments, more than Chobi trampling on him, more than Roger saying that Li was never going back was hearing Li say those three words he didn't want to hear because those three words are always true unlike the other three words.
"Li-Li..."
Li didn't care what Isaak had to say anymore. They were done talking as far as he was concerned.
"Just disappear like the rest of them..."
Isaak didn't flinch when he saw Li preparing his dark beam attack. He couldn't move. He didn't want to. The person he cared for the most said he hated him. There was no point in going on just knowing that.
"I really am sorry Li-Li...for everything..." he mumbled as he hid his eyes underneath his hair.
"Save it Isaak!" Li shouted as he fired the dark beam at him. It engulfed him. Li's entire body was shaking when the blonde didn't fight back. He just took it like a soldier.
Unlike the Smashers who turn into a trophy when hit by it or get killed off completely like any normal human or angel would be, a yellow feather was sealed within a capsule similar to what the assist trophies were kept in until released.
"Its too late to apologize...idiot..."
That last word was forced out. Li walked over to the capsule and took it into his arms.
"In the end, you can't even kill your former comrades."
Li didn't bother turning around to see his boss.
"I'm sorry," he replied in an emotionless tone.
"Don't be. I understand just how you feel."
You don't. Li thought to himself. He felt something drop from his eyes. He rubbed his eyes thinking he got some smoke in it. It wasn't smoke that was in his eyes though.
"And you finally shed tears when you put the one you loved in a state of no return." Tsusuki said in a mocking tone.
Li wouldn't admit he was crying. He said nothing.
"When we conquer Angel Land, we'll put all the royal bodyguards in a section of Heaven guarded by my best men. As long as they'll out of the way, Angel Land is doomed. Right my angel?"
He wasn't speaking to Li. He was speaking to Pit who was behind him. The angel said or did nothing. He couldn't do anything anyway.
"Now beloved, go and turn your other comrades into feathers," Tsusuki said with a laugh as he opened a portal behind him and disappeared. Pit followed him.
Li couldn't smile anymore. It was futile.
"I might as well take Sun-Wong out..." he mumbled. Would Sun-Wong give up like Isaak did or will he continue to fight a fight he couldn't win? It was probably the first opinion. His replacement though wouldn't go down so easily. It might be best to summon his Aeon against him but he would rather keep it a secret until absolutely necessary.
Isaak Sosuke, you are a true idiot from the beginning to the end.
Me: TBC 4246 with words.
Yohko: How could you?
Me: Very easily. Notes!
1. Molly is the girl in Sonic X episode 68 that Shadow and Rouge become friends with. She gets killed near the end of the episode when Shadow tries to stop her many times. She was selfish to get killed when Shadow did all that for her in my opinion.
2. If you can't get a perfect image of the capsule, just think about the rose that the Beast in Beauty in the Beast kept. It's like that and only when the capsule is open will the angel be freed.
That's it. The question is...
1. Will Yuna be able to save the remaining Smashers?
That's it. With that said, please review. I will now rant about stuff.
Yohko: Oh boy. If you don't want to hear her rant, stop here and review. Otherwise, continue.
Me: First thing is first. OH MY GOD! SKIP BEAT IS OUT AS AN ANIME! THEY ALL LOOK AWESOME! I understand what they are saying because I read the manga for the most part. I have to catch up again with the manga. Sho is Sho. Kyoko is Kyoko. Ren is Ren. All the characters is just how I imagine it. The devils...the devils are...AWESOME! I was laughing so hard but I wanted to cry for Kyoko but it was hard to because of the Kyoko devils. Sho is so mean to her. But her Kyoko Devils are OVER 9000!
Yohko: So...
Me: I might go back to The Song of Hope just to bring back those guys again. The music is awesome as well. I can't wait to see how the series will turn out. Hopefully not like Full Moon O Sagashite. Okay...now about games.
I beat Fire Emblem Path of Radiance. You can go on DA to see my rant. It was awesome. The next time I save my money, I'm going for Radiant Dawn. I just got Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood and I love it. The guidebook came with it and I love how the characters are drawn. My party is Sonic because I love him, Cream because she's the better healer than Tails but slower, Knuckles for now until I get Shade because he's awesome and Shadow because...I think if Cream is going to be in my party, he might as well be as well. The game is hard though. I can't master Cream's techniques. I have to master it if I want to survive later on in the game instead of relying on items.
That's it. I will beat Paper Mario and Star Ocean: Till the End of Time eventually. So...until then, ja ne! Watch Skip Beat! You won't regret it! Also tune into The Song of Hope. Skip Beat characters are in personally surprisingly.
I noticed that the time Gary had this bad feeling does not match with the timeline of the first movie. Gary saw Ash before the movie because Mewtwo was still under Giovanni's control. I remember they had a break so Ash and co went everywhere else to train and the place in the first movie was one of them. I'm just correcting that.
So the child Isaak saved was Rita. I think this would be a good chance to introduce him now since he's not going to be a royal bodyguard in this story.
I noticed that Isaak was speaking Japanese instead of German so I changed the name of the spell and the whole chant is in German. Same with Li and it changed to Greek. So, this is what Isaak is saying...
"Oh lighting so very bright. Shield those who cannot stand the enemies might. I call upon you...LIGHTNING SHIELD!"
Li is saying the same thing two things back...for the most part...
"Oh powers of the dark...send these poor souls to the grave. I call upon you...SHADE!"