Hello, I'm back.

I hope you all read what I said in the note before this chapter. I actually hope you understand why I couldn't. But everything is fine, because now I feel like I can have time to write this story and continue it. I have been improving my writing skills and I'm hoping that I can integrate them into this chapter and the many that will follow.

For this chapter, I'm planning on making it the last battle, but I don't really know. You guys have been waiting for it for a while so I think this action packed chapter showing everything coming to an end is just what you deserve but as you may know, I'm kinda crazy so who knows.

To inform you I am now using Google Docs. Its really great in helping writing so make an account and give it a try for any type of writing from school to just about anything else. Happy Holidays as well and stay safe out there.

So here is the chapter that is long overdue. Hope you all enjoy and see you at the end.

Chapter 15: First Villain V: Final Battle Part II.

Lily Violon D'or(Golden Violin) 3:06 P.M February 7th, 2010

"It's done." Lily opened her eyes, the sight of the hallway she stood in the middle of came into view.

She had focusing on the amount of large energy that Dante,Techlin, and Vladimir had released, already knowing how their energy felt. Dante's felt energetic, warm, and uncontrollable; Techlin's energy was the polar opposite, feeling controlled, icy cool, and radiated dominance; finally, Vladimir felts malevolent, pure malevolent.

"I'm surprised by the amount Techlin has displayed, impressive even. The others are probably just as powerful." Lily thought as she started her run to her position. Vladimir will not be happy once Techlin slips away. Well, she hoped he's got the chance to get away. The last output of energy was Techlin's and it felt tainted as if brought upon by extreme desperation or anger, and then it vanished in an instant.

Suddenly, an evil energy shot up in massive amounts, and she knew who it radiated that type of energy. A small smile settled on her face knowing that so far the plan that they came up was working out splendidly.

Vladimir. One Minute Earlier

Vladimir snapped out of his trance. He didn't know that Techlin even had that amount of energy left after dispensing so much in his previous attack.

"That boy is something, he has to be the strongest." Vladimir wondered out loud, then realized that said strongest was the now gone. Vladimir's teeth grinded against each other, his eyes glowed a dangerous red, and the energy from his body was covering him in a thin line of red.

Then, without any indications, Vladimir arms shaped-shift into big, black rocket launchers and he started to fire the rounds to the wall, the ceiling, the door, anywhere that can be hit with an explosion he fired at. As the explosions went on they grew louder and stronger than the last shots fired. Soon, the ammunition of the rockets changed from pure energy to that of a fire hydrants for lava and in a few minutes, the room was filled with magma that burned through the metal of the room effortlessly. Vladimir stood in the middle of it all, seething in rage and still radiating large amounts of energy, as if Techlin's barrage was futile in lowering his energy.

Then he felt it, a strong pulse of energy that was cool and refreshing like ice cream with the taste of mint filling his taste buds. He recognize it, it was the Hero of Music, the daughter of the mercenary who was hiding her right under his nose. He wondered why she was here, and he came to the conclusion that she was here for her allies, but no, she has always been here, hiding from him.

"I will kill them all!" Vladimir said as he launched to the giant gap in the wall that once held the door and leaving the room filled with lava that was still going through the walls and floor. Unseen by him was the tiny cracks in the wall and the steam that followed.

Dante Livingston Gates. 10 Minutes After Techlin's Assault

Dante waited at the entrance of an air vent in the middle of one of the many hallways of the facility. Dante didn't know what this place can be called anymore, definitely not a school, but a secret laboratory seems to fit. Dante thoughts on the new label didn't last long as he soon heard, his senses heighten ever since the Awakening, a rumble through the vents. The rumbling came closer at quick speeds and once he heard it about twenty feet away from him; he turned his hand into metal, ripping the vent from the wall taking small bits of walls with it. The Savior of Blades came through a second later. Techlin stood at tall as he turned to his brother, a small smile settling on his face. Dante responded the same way.

"Everything's going exactly as plan." Techlin stated, still slightly out of breath from the mass amount of energy he used.

"Yeah it did," then Dante noticed the two lines of blood coming from the corner of Techlin's mouth. " and you over did it a little."

"I know. I believed that the attack that I did would probably finish him, but it didn't. I almost died." Techlin told his brother who gained a look of surprise.

"How?"

"The attack I did, coupled with me taking care of soldiers left and right, I have been using too much energy, for the entire day I had been using too much. I'm drained, and I was after that last attack and that allowed Vladimir enough time to get to me," The two brothers started to walk in the direction of Eds, to prepare for the final part after Lily. " then Vladimir said something as he was about to finish me."

"What did he say?" Even if he was inexperienced in sensing others' energy he felt the tremendous output of energy from the transport area. The Eds and Lily had to felt it as well.

"He said that he was going to kill you guys, then Callie and my child and I just flipped. But something was in my head and told me to stop using it and it took the power away and it was gone. Vladimir was stunned by that and I got away." Techlin finished explaining the details before his escape.

Dante wanted to respond, but was left in silence. Dante knew that if anyone was to threaten his brother's wife would be dead in seconds. But that wasn't the only thing he was thinking about, he could relate to his energy suddenly being taken. When Vladimir and him were at the stalemate, the voice told him to not use it again and took it away. He wanted to tell him, but he didn't know how he'll take it.

"Fuck it." "I know how you feel because the same thing happened to me when I got to Vladimir, I used a power I can't use and that power went away and a voice called me an idiot for using it. After that, I came in and it was your turn." Dante explained, predicting the next choice of words of his brothers.

"We all are allowed to use all three of our powers, why can't you use yours?" The confusion was evident in the ice user's voice.

'Sigh' "This power, its called Darkness Mist, well I call it that. It's something my Spirit Guardians told me of, said I wasn't strong enough to use it and that if I did that I'll be corrupt or something. But I can't use it yet." Dante explained deciding to at least be truthful to his own blood.

"Oh, then don't use it." Was his brother's simple response and that made Dante mad.

"Don't use it? Why can't I? I mean you, Ed, Double D, and Lily can use all three, but I can't!? That's unfair!" Dante ranted like a child and Techlin gave a disapproving look at the boy, his mature side showing.

"Stop acting like a child, Dante! You're thirteen and in the eighth grade. I suspect you to use that smart brain of yours to try and understand why you can't use it. What if you do use it, and get corrupted? What then?" The Gates had stopped their walk to stare down one another.

"What if I don't? Ever think that I'm stronger than I look? I can control it!" Dante argued back.

"I know you're strong and if I knew of this then I'll push you to control it, but lets remember who said not to use it." Techlin said.

"The Spirit Guardians so wha-"

"They are beings of great power who help us! They have millenniums of knowledge against our own, more experience with our powers because they made them, and they know the limits of our own bodies. Trust me when I say, that they will know more than anyone and they will teach you one day to control it. Just be patient." And with that the older brother turned and started the walk to the Eds once again, leaving a deeply aggravated Master Thief behind.

Silently and still fuming he followed after his brother, remaining a comfortable distance behind him.

Techlin could feel the negativity of Dante's energy and knew that he was mad. "He's smart, he'll get over it soon and realize that I'm right."

"I hate it when Tech is right, but I'm still mad!" Dante thought gaining on his brother, but kept a good distance behind him still.

The two boys walked by a door and they heard shuffling in the room. Both of the Heroes turned with Dante's electricity charged, and Techlin producing one silver blade and his white shield. The two boys stared at the entrance to the room, waiting for a sound to be produced from it. Dante looked to Techlin, and he nodded to the door. Dante moved slowly towards the room, hearing the shuffle again. Dante stopped inches away from the door and picked his foot up and kicking the door open and charging in.

Screams, crash, and grunts greeted Techlin years as he moved into the room and flicked the light switch on. He gasped at the sight he saw on the floor, laying entangled with his brother were two other people, two familiar faces that they came to know for years. Laying with his brothers were both Kendal and Lana.

The Eds. Courtyard 3:21 P.M

Waiting in the courtyard was the Ed trio, waiting for the Gates brothers and for Lily to arrive to initiate the final part of the plan. The courtyard was very simple looking and actually brung some peace to the boys. There was four paths that lead into the building and they meet in the center of the courtyard which was a large fountain. The courtyard itself was as big as six olympic swimming pools next to each other. The courtyard, according to the blueprints of the castle that Dante obtained, was actually the center of castle and the only place with no cieling showing the ocean above. The space between the stone steps was all grass and had no flowers. Ed was sitting next to the fountain reading his spell books, Double D was next to Ed to see the spells that the books held, and Eddy was across from them laying on the grass.

Even with everything in place and everything going to plan so far, one of the Eds were worried for what will happen once it was their turn.

"Something doesn't feel right, Double D. It's just too easy." Eddy said to his smart friend, sitting up to look at the other two.

"Why you say that?" Double D asked.

"Vladimir is way too smart to just let us get the jump on him, he has to have figured out the plan by now!" Eddy exclaimed.

"Even so, we haven't had any problems. He's probably still overconfident enough that he's not thinking or too consumed by rage. Everything is going fine Eddy, just wait and see." Double D optimistically said.

"Yeah Eddy, Vladimir won't know what'll hit him once we get through with him!" Ed looked up from his book, his same big grin showing his slightly yellow teeth.

"Sorry guys, something bad is going to happen. I'll hang on to that and you hang on to the optimism." Eddy declared as he rested back down, a slight smile on his face. Once his back touched the dirt there was a click in their ear pieces.

"Guys, we have problem." Dante's voice came through.

"What is it?" Eddward asked and keeping note of his annoyed tone.

"We found Lana and Kendal, still here!" Techlin's voice came next and sounded angry.

"What!?" All three Eds shouted.

"Put them on now." Double D asked, wanting to know why of all times did they decided to stay behind. A few sounds of shuffling later and he was on with Lana. "Please tell me why are two here, it isn't safe."

"We know, but we want to help!" Lana responded.

"You could've helped by going home with the others!" Ed said to Lana, more aggressive than he wanted

"I know, but we found out something that you guys need to know." Lana said and their expressions came to that of surprise. They stayed behind to tell them something? They thought the two lost their minds.

"We found Vladimir's destroyed lab, and we saw him leave. We went in and we saw a still operational screen, it was chat room and it said that he was calling all of his forces to abandon all operations and come back! An army is coming guys and it said that it'll be about an hour for any of them to get to the base. That was forty minutes ago. We've been looking for you guys the entire time." Lana informed and that made them look like deer in headlights.

"An entire army?" Ed whispered.

"But why? It makes no sense to bring back the army especially now? We may have to speed up this plan or el-!" Double D was interrupted by a giant explosion that shook the castle. The trio looked around and saw a bright flash from one of the tunnels leading inside to the east portion and more rumbling. Double D, with his sharp eyes, saw down the tunnel to see that the flash was not just that but a barrel of flames that was coming at them lightning fast.

Eddward reacted quickly and told the other two to move out of the way. They listened and a few seconds the same fire Edd saw came through, burning the anything in it's path. Soon it started to release in a large explosion that started to cover the courtyard. Thinking quick on his feet again, the smart Ed made a force field bubble around himself and Ed, who was next to him, but Eddy dashed too far from them to be covered as well.

"Eddy!" The two Eds called out to their short-tempered brother who was about to dash to them, only for the flames to engulfed him.

"Eddy!" The two said once they saw their friend's face disappear.

Tears welled in their eyes as the flames danced around the force bubble, the two releasing that their friend was a goner. That was until said goner ran into the bubble.

"Eddy!" They said his name for the third time and Ed was the first to hug him. Double D couldn't due to focusing on the bubble, but did wipe his eyes of tears.

"Let go of me Ed, you're acting like I died." Eddy shouted trying to wrestle his way out of Ed's grip.

"We thought you died!" Ed shouted in his ear and that earned him a straight punch to his face and his grip loosen on Eddy as he fell to the ground.

"Hello, immune to fire! Don't you remember?" Eddy said and for once in his life Double D felt dumb. Ed was used to it.

"Besides that, what in the world caused this explosion?" Edd asked seeing the flames around them still going strong.

"I don't know, but my guess is Vladimir." Eddy said.

"What happen to Lily?" Ed's voice was dripping with worry of their new ally.

"I don't know, but I'm going check it out. If Vladimir still has this much power, then Lily is going to need my help." Edd said and was about to run until Double D grabbed his shoulder, Eddy looked confused as he looked over his shoulder to see Double D's serious face with his hood up and his eerie yellow hawk eyes stared at him in the dark shade of the hood. Ed also looked at him, his hands twitching and belt that held his spells were showing.

"She needs all of us, we have to end it and get out of here before the army arrives. If we don't, then its a suicide mission." Ed said in a low, clear tone.

"Lily's one of us and we protect our own." This time, Techlin's voice came over, still hearing from them.

"I agree Eddy, you can't do everything on your own remember?" Eddward said with a smirk.

"Yeah, I remember. Just hold on, we got a girl to save." Eddy said and the two nodded, grabbing on to his suit.

"We'll meet you there and don't worry about out two guests. They're tied up nicely." Dante said after getting back his earpiece.

"Agreed, lets go." And that made Eddy move through the flames with Double D's bubble still covering the non-flame resistant Eds.

Lily. Four Minutes Before the Explosion.

Lily skid to stop as she deflected another attack from Vladimir.

"This is harder than I thought." Lily thought as she panted. Her dress was ripped in various places, her face was slightly bruised from a previous attack, and cuts were all over her body. Vladimir was also panting, but it didn't seem out of energy but of rage.

Lily slowly stood up about to prepare an attack with her flute only for Vladimir to appear in front of her, saliva came from her mouth as he punch her in the gut. It wasn't over as he grabbed her by the hair and kicked her in the side. Following was a knee in her gut and a punch to her face, chest, and stomach followed simultaneously as Vladimir appeared with three right arms. Finally, his hands turned to metal and was about to hit her until Lily stepped back and dodged. She played an attack note and it made contact with Vladimir, sending the unexpected enemy flying.

Lily breathed harder than ever before, her vision was getting blurry and she could barely hold herself up, yet Vladimir stood seemingly unfazed by her weak attack. Lily wanted to give up and she needed to or she would die, all she had to do was run towards the Eds and it was up to them. She was going to do so until she ran only two feet before falling over, Vladimir standing where she once stood and a knee in the air. The Savior of Music felt the wind knocked out of her for the seventh time in ten minutes.

"I'll admit Lily, I may not have been clear when we met just minutes ago. But I said I will destroy you and I plan on living up to that promise."

Lily started to crawl away in futile as Vladimir came and stepped onto her hand. She howled and her power came alive as she started to damage Vladimir's ears. Vladimir shot a green slime to her mouth that stopped the screaming, subsequently shutting her mouth.

"That hurt." Vladimir said and stood back.

"I'll miss you Lily and I hope that for everything that you and I may be friends in another life. Sadly, it was not this one." After those words he started to build up large amounts of energy. He started to glow on spots of his body.

Lily knew of this attack, the Nuclear Blast, she captured the person herself. Higly unstable and able to destroy a city, she barely survived that day and at her situation at the moment her chances was zero. Lily noticed that his focus of the build up made the green slime weaken and she painfully ripped it off her mouth. Her flute lay only a few feet away and she started her way towards. By this time Vladimir was glowing completely and blinding anyone who looked towards him. Then as he hand reached the instruement and the mouthpiece met her lips, he blew. Luckily, Lily's air was faster as a large blue note came in front of her and the flames flowed around her and the note. Lily was now out of it. She could barely stay standing or concsious as she leaned against the note. She knew here that she would die, there was no other ending for her, just death.

Tears streamed down her bruised, dirty face as she knew that it was all over. She was going to miss all of things she'd done and miss the things she wanted to do.

"I have been living too long anyway. 'Sob' At least I know that I had a chance, I hope those five finish this bastard off! 'Sob' 'Sob' At least I had my first kiss. I'm sure that Dante would have been a great boyfriend." Lily's tears intensified as the flames kept going and as her power over her shield was dissolving, she closed her eyes and waited for the cold feeling of death.

Then it stopped, just as the note went down, it stopped and Lily looked to see a now tired Vladimir.

"I used too much 'pant' energy 'pant'." Vladimir said low but audible and Lily smiled knowing that there was maybe hope for her yet. It disappeared once Vladimir saw her and approached her with his finger shaped like knives.

"I'll ''pant' finish 'pant' you off 'pant' personally." Vladimir said menacingly as he slowly approached.

He didn't make it a foot away because he encased in orange lightning and Vladimir yelled in pain as the sparks flew through him. He turned his body to rubber and the pain stopped as the electricity flowed through him, what followed next however was ice spikes erupting from the ground and hitting him dead in chest piercing and sending him flying through the air. His chest was bloody and Vladimir felt the pain as never before.

Then a shout followed. "Venenum: Poison Whip!" A purple line came straight to Vladimir who couldn't dodge it, but he did put his arms, now black steel, in front of him. It was for nothing as it hit the arms and scratched the metal deeply and licked his unprotected legs. Vladimir screamed in pain.

Sadly, the villain's misery only started as two more male voices came into his ears. He was still in the air and defenseless. "Dammit." Was his only word.

"Piercing Shot!"

"Flaming Bullet!"

An arrow made of light came at neck breaking speeds towards the man and this time Vladimir didn't know what to protect him from pure energy. His mind astraught by exhaustion and the previous three attacks. Then the arrow was soon next to a black blur with two bright yellow balls with tails following behind. Vladimir made the arrow pierce his left arm but the two balls of burning light hit him straight in the gut and sent him flying and for him to impact...

"Terra: Rock Wall!" that attack.

Vladimir heard his back crack as he slammed into the wall.

"Take that you bastard!" The black blur said being the Eddy that they knew and loved.

"Lily!" Dante shouted as he and his brother ran pass Vladimir in the wall, which started to crumbled with the mad scientist falling as well. Dante slid to a stop next to the woman and kneeled.

Dante couldn't believe her current state, she looked tired and in pain. Her body was cut and burnt and her dress could possibly be rags now. Her hair was a mess and had was colored red lightly on the side, and he could see the blood coming from her mouth and nose and trailing from her head down the side of her face. Dante's eyes started to tear up seeing her like this, his friend was nearly dead if this was her state. She was currently unconscious

"Lily." Dante whispered. Ignoring Eddy who ran next to Techlin, who stood silently, and his straw hat tipped down shadowing his face and facial features.

"Damn, he did a number." Eddy noted the obvious and the footsteps of Double D and Ed.

"Eddy, everyone, what's...going...on?" Edd slowed his speech as he saw Lily and stopped a few feet away. Ed ran past him, his Healing book in hand. Ed stopped next to her side.

"Ed, save her." Dante whispered as tears streamed down his face and dripped on the floor.

"I'm on it." Ed said flipping to the fifth page and saw his strongest healing spell at the moment.

"Sanitatum: Holy Solution!" Ed whispered powerfully and he held his hands over Lily's damaged body and two dark green orbs appeared. Slowly, Ed lowered his hands and the orbs were pushed into her body.

"I'll have to keep fueling the spell to heal her fully, he did internal damage to her with some of the important organs being damaged as well, internal bleeding, head trauma, cracked ribs, broken bones in legs and arms. I'm definitely no doctor, but if we didn't come sooner, she may have died," Edd informed as his eyes glowed the same color as the orbs and tinted around Lily's body. " make sure you make him pay." Poison dripped with that word. Lily's skin started to return to her normal complexion and the bruises slowly started to go down.

"Oh, we will." Techlin's voice was ice cold and lifted his straw hat to show his silver slitted wolf eyes.

"You can bet on it." Double D said as he moved towards Vladimir, slowly.

Eddy, for once in his life, was silent as his eyes glowed dangerously red and turned towards Vladimir and started his walk, Techlin right behind him.

"Rest Lily, we got it from here." Dante said as he too stood, his eyes glowing a bright blue and the tears burning off his face. He walked up to his three brothers and they walked align and a few more steps passed before they stopped. Ten feet from Vladimir as he stood, ripping the arrow out of his left arm and throwing it aside as it dissipated into energy, His lab coat was ruined, showing his entire torso and the Amulet of the Goddess of Etro containing hundreds of powers visible in the center. Vladimir was scratched and bleeding, but he stood tall and strong. In truth he was tired and losing energy, but he still had enough to be able to take on dozens of experienced heroes.

"Angry? Well that can make five of us. Prepare to die, all of you." Vladimir said and his arms were rounded by two halos.

"Oh, you shouldn't talk." Dante said as his arms were engulfed in blue streaks of light and he charged.

The End Is Nigh.

Wow, very well done I must say for myself. I say this is probably the best cliffhanger I made in this story. But here it is, the chapter most have been waiting for and I want to get reviews telling me of some noticed difference in writing. Theres has to be something! Right?

I hope this chapter gets everyone hyped for the next one cause it sure did for me. Sadly, it's not being written yet. Now I have to write the next chapter for Word of The Dead Part II: Winter Crisis so keep eyes on that for now.

Again happy holidays, have a merry Christmas and for those who celebrate other holidays then good love to you all, be safe, eat a lot of food, and remember, peace for the world!

Next chapter!

First Villain VI: The Reckoning of Vladimir Makarov

See ya, my fellow Revolutionaries.