~*Fanfiction*~
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Aftermath: Threads of Fate
This is a sequel to ToF, lots of Rue/Mint. Hope you like it. biggrin
Chapter 11 :Final Battle
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Last Time on The Sequel:
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"Mint, East Haven Kingdom is said to be the richest land in the world. It truly is if you live there."
When she began to lean toward him and her eyes fluttered shut he couldn't have cared less if he was in control or not just so long as he could feel, feel her lips on his. He let his arms encircle her waist and...
Felt his arms fall heavily on his chest as he sat up with a start in bed. He hung his head.
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"You have come for my [Relic]? Ha! You shall never get it. A mere doll, a princess, and wizardling and..." He paused as he noticed Akumu and began to laugh. It was a horrible laugh that echoed all around them and chilled them to the bone.
"And who?" Mint called trying to end the painful laughter.
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"And who?" Mint called trying to end the painful laughter.
"Ah! So the wench hasn't told you!" The Aeon laughed. "I am her father!" (AN oohhh I have sooo wanted to say that!) "I am Akumu's father!" He called tauntingly.
"Akumu is dead! How would she be here?" Rue asked stepping into a protective stance beside Mint.
"Ah! So not even her name has stayed with her. What do you go by now Akumu? What have you deceived these fools into thinking?" He asked. When no one answered him he raised his hand and with a scream Akira lifted into the air.
"AKUMU! Let her down you b*****d!" Cyan said, pushing his hands out a concentrated stream of water shot out and slammed into the Aeon.
Akumu fell into the water and pointing at the water Cyan caused a watery hand to deposit her on the shore.
"So, it is Cyan the drip who challenges me!" The Aeon laughed.
"Wait...So...You're not Akira and Cyrus?" Mint asked. Before anyone could answer Akumu, the nightmare cause, struggled to her feet.
"I am Akumu, the greatest wizard of all time! Magic was natural to me being my father was an Aeon. But when I learned what his [relic] could do I disband him and soon after faked my death. I waited patiently until I saw two who were getting too close. Planning to kill them to keep you sealed I emerged. But their kindness and pure hearts amazed me. I refused and instead decided to help them. I am your daughter and I can best you. I will too!" She said with such conviction in her voice it was almost a smoke clouding the air.
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Gomen ne minna-san. I "borrowed" this next idea from Photon and the Idiot Menace. Don't sue me. Onegi?
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In the air before him the Aeon drew a line about three inches long. Then he drew an S that curved through the middle with one dot in each curve. Lastly he drew a squared C near the top. It glowed a yellow color and appeared on the left side of Akumu's neck. It glowed and she finally could hold the scream of pain in no longer.
She turned her head to Cyan and mouthed something that only he heard and eyes became solid green with the pupil gone entirely. She stood with her shoulders limp and glowed a bright gold. Mint's eyes soon matched Akumu's in their lack of pupil and she began twisting around.
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Mint was on a small platform in the center of a large dark space. Somehow she knew that the floor was no longer there.
"Rue? Aki-Akumu? Cyan? Anyone? Please?" A horrendous laugher echoed up from the depths. Great lizards with leathery wings that weren't as graceful as dragons flew up from the depths. The pinched, poked, taunted, and cuffed her.
"They'll never come for you! Rue has Claire... Everyone has someone but you have no one! You don't even have family!" The sang in their grating voices.
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Rue looked on helplessly as Mint cried and hit at the empty air.
"s**t!" Cyan yelled.
"That spell was carved there on her birthday. It allows me to control her completely." The Aeon laughed.
"Cyru-Cyan?" Rue asked.
"Akumu has the powers of illusion. Your Mint is suffering from one of the stronger spells." A few tears managed to sneak out of Cyan's eyes.
"How do we?" Rue was stopped as Cyan called water into his hands.
"My dear Akumu, why did it have to end this way? Why did you bind me to this damn promise?" He asked of the girl as the blast escaped his hands. It slammed into Akumu's side and she fell to the ground. Her lips were blue and her skin was satin white. Her chest never rose in breath again.
The spell on Mint faded after a minute more.
"Ah! Her magic was coated with her soul and so as she died her magic did too. Or perhaps love did that." The Aeon grinned sardonically.
Mint's eyes fluttered open.
"Rue...?" He managed a sad smile.
"Mint, Akumu's father tapped her power and cast that spell on you. She managed to stop it though." Mint smiled and stood.
"Thank..." She trailed off as she saw the still Akumu laying on the ground. "You killed your own daughter?" She asked with venom in her voice as she turned to the Aeon.
"No, her Love took care of that. Something about a silly oath. She probably knew I would try that and made him promise just to wreck my fun." He sighed like a child who can't go outside to play because of the rain. "Oh well, I can kill you three." He smiled.
"Take that b*****d!" Mint cried as she leapt at him and her foot contacted with his nose. Cyan made sure that the water caught her and deposited her on the shore. His eyes were dry, but dead.
"We disposed of Valen, the greatest Aeon of all time. It will be a cakewalk to kill a a*****e like you!" Mint yelled as she fired a bolt of water magic at the Aeon.
He merely stuck out a hand and blasted her back into a tree. She crumpled to the ground, her chest fluttering up and down but barely.
In an uncharacteristic show of emotion Rue turned to the Aeon with fire burning in his eyes and yelled, "No one treats my hime like that!" He didn't even realize his use of the term "my hime" as he transformed into a Gargoyle and flew up to the Aeon swooping down and clawing and tearing at the teal robes.
With a deft flick of his hand. Gargoyle-Rue was flung off. He got back up and tried again. Before Rue could be flung off a blast of electrified water slammed into the Aeon. He fell backwards but stayed aloft. (AN oooohhh doncha just luuuv that word. Aloft aloft aloft! Hee hee hee.)
"You can never defeat me, and even if you do you will not figure how to use the [relic] without me or my daughter." He laughed. Rue turned to see Mint leaning heavily on the tree with her rings swirling around her arm. One eye was shut and a tiny rivlet (AN another good word. Damn I'm good.) trickled from the side of her mouth.
"Mint." Rue said trying to contain his glee.
"I...I think my...wound reopened." She quipped. (AN I won't say it but you can guess.)
"Enough of the waff, we've got an Aeon to kill." Cyan said with fresh conviction and a lust for blood-Aeon blood-in his eyes.
"Yeah!" Mint cheered wiping her mouth with her hand, only managing to smear it which gave her an evil, vampieric (AN: The spellchecker is yelling at me. Apparently, that isn't a word.) look, and took a shaky step forward. A charge gathered in his hands and Rue and Cyan found themselves encased in a light yellow diamond. When the attack stopped the diamond disappeared and all three (Mint had one too) hit the Aeon.
"Mint?" Rue asked raising an eyebrow.
"Thank Maya's gold magic. She did something useful for once" Mint grinned. The Aeon began to dissolve.
"I'm melting...MELTING...What a world, what a world!" (AN: I'm bad. {Wizard Of Oz})
"That...Was odd." Mint said.
"He was very weak as it was and we had deteriorated his magic over time." Cyan explained. A wad about the size of a human head but in a long oval shape fell to the ground. The three looked at it.
"Must be the [relic]." Mint reasoned. The walked over to it and slowly pealed the layers ov burlap off to reaveal the back of an ancient statue. As they turned it over they found it was a ceramic lawn gnome. (AN I'm going to hell. This is from Romancing the Stone)
"Someone has a really sick sense of humor." Rue grunted.
"I'm going to kill him again." Mint growled.
"WAIT! Akumu used to read all these romance novels and in one the treasure was inside the statue." Mint grinned and dropped it where she proceeded to stomp on it. It shattered and reveald a fist-sized diamond.
"Jeasus. We finally have a [relic]." Mint breathed.
Chapter 12[/U] biggrin oes Love Really Conquer All?
Mint suddenly dropped the glass orb and black smoke began to swirl within it. There was a tiny crack that grew larger as more and more smoke seeped out of it.
"I didn't think I dropped it that far." Mint said as it shattered completely and the black smoke dissipated revealing a older version of Akumu in a dark slinky dress.
"Ah! So Cyan the Drip got some friends to help him and my.. Ah, so that moron actually disposed of her. Very well then." Her green eyes scanned over Mint and Rue. "Oh! A doll. And you're so cute too! I think I'll just reprogram you!" With a snap of her fingers black light shot at Rue and he floated limply to her side in the air over the lake.
"RUE! Rue, wake up! Rue!" Mint yelled at her friend.
"He can't hear you. She's got him shut down." Cyan said seriously.
"Aw, is the princess jealous? Well, I got him first so he's mine. When I'm done with him he won't even remember you!" The woman yelled. "That moron wasn't an Aeon, merely a projection. I am the true aeon who guards the [relic]!"
Cyan looked over at Mint. Her eyes were brimming with tears of helplessness and anger and her fists were clutched tightly around her rings. A low sound started in her throat and erupted in a fearsome scream of anguish and anger.
She was about to fire a blast of dark magic at the woman when and arrow whizzed by her ear taking a few strands of hair with it. From the trees came Prince Rochfert.
"Oh God. Not Roachfurt." Mint sighed stressing the Roach part.
"Ew I hate Roaches. Where's my Raid?" The Aeon asked. In a puff of black smoke the party was gone. "I sent them home and will do it again. I would rather play with you two." She smiled viciously.
"Let them go! Akumu's dead and you can kill me. That's all you ever wanted isn't it? To get rid of the only two who could surpass you in power." Cyan yelled. At the moment he was the most dangerous thing on the planet. His love had died and he had never once apologized for all the times he was mean. All he wanted was to be with her.
"NO! I left my home four years ago to find a [relic] after two years I came to Corona and met Rue. Over the next year (How long would it be their time? I couldn't guess so I just made it up) we fought hard to get the Dewprism and it was destroyed. I went back home and for a year I was miserable! Then I got word of a new [relic] I will not rest until I have fulfilled my dream!" She yelled powering up a blast of her own dark magic and letting it fly.
A few things happened all at once. The blast hit the woman square in the chest. Rue fell on top of Mint and the Aeon fell into the water. Nothing stirred not even one of my titmice from a few chapters ago. Rue groaned and the spell was broken. Mint pushed him off and used the last of her magic to heal him. Then she turned and ran to where the Aeon was climbing onto the bank. Mint began slashing at the woman with her rings not giving her a chance to fight back.
Sadly for Mint Aeons have an odd habit of changing the rules right when you begin to win. With a scream of rage the Aeon glowed black and Mint was thrown up into the air. With a few words in a dead language Mint was thrown against the grown and then flung into the air once more. Rue, with the help of Mint's healing magic, sat up slowly. His body felt tingly. The last thing he remembered was a scream of utter pain from someone. He wasn't sure who. He opened his eyes and saw Cyan trying to get through a barrier around a woman.
"I'll show you to mess with and Aeon!" Rue saw Mint's limp body slammed into a rock. Her head snapped backwards with a sickeningly wet thud. As Rue watched wide-eyed in horror a large red puddle formed around her head like some grotesque halo. He felt his eyes sting and then cool liquid trail down his face.
He. Rue. The Aeon-made doll, was crying. He felt pure anger and hatred well up within him. When Claire had died he hadn't cried and it was now he realized, Mint was his world. His one, his only, his everything.* If Mint was dead... He turned to the Aeon with a cold and pure hatred in his eyes. He couldn't be there to save her, he had failed her. But by god he could avenge her!** His hat fell with the force of him standing and the gem on his forehead glowed blue.
The Aeon turned and could only watch as Rue leapt at her with his axe shinning with a beauty that would be marred with blood in a few moments.
"Powers of the [relic], buried within me so long ago, open the channels now and lend me power! LIGHT OF DARKNESS!***" Not only did the spell strengthen her shield, but it also gathered a black ball in her hands. She fired it at Rue but he continued to run through it unfazed. The gasp of surprise was not fully out of the Aeon's lips before he crashed through her shield. Before he could slice his axe through the Aeon's neck she went for one last try. In a burst of shadow she looked like Claire****.
Rue's blade froze. She looked like Claire. The Mother and sister he had never had. The Aeon laughed at her cleaver ploy. From where lay, exhausted, Cyan calls out to Rue.
"It's not Claire. Claire is in Carona safe. Mint's life, and Akumu's too, hang on you winning." He strained, the last of his energy spent trying to get through the barrier Rue crossed so easily. Rue's eyes hardened but he could not bring himself to hurt the girl before him. His body just wouldn't obey. A blue light filled the area.
I'm so bad! I have always wanted to make a really good Cliffhanger. Now, for the notes. I didn't want to disrupt the story so they are the little *'s by the words.
*Isn't this a Boyz to Men song or one of those boy bands?
** I started crying when I wrote this part and I knew what was going to happen!
***I know it's an oxymoron, but it sounds so destructive and cool.
****Yes, yes, I know, Mode Master pulled this in the first one. But it fit so well.
