Ebony

Chapter 6 - Finale

The young female drops her bags on the floor, when she sees Anastagio wrapped up in Shino's slithery tail, being dragged across the room, and Christof holding Ebony's body in a panic, shaking her back and forth trying to snap her out of her spasm. "Run while you can!" Christof screamed but the female only got angry. She started to walk closer to Shino with hesitation, making Shino back up and letting Anastagio go. Once Shino was against the wall Durellium ran down the steps yelling "What is going on here! I was sleep-" but stopped himself in his sentence when he saw: Shino and her tail, Ebony spasming out, Anastagio rubbing the redness around his neck, and a female who looked mostly familiar.

Durellium was in shock making him stumble backwards on the steps, Shino looked at him for a moment then in her most quivering voice said "umm look it's the boy that messed up your cover." Now she was stuttering as she talked facing the female who looked at her with a blank stare." I-I could kill-kill him for you, it would-wouldn't be a prob-problem." The female who walked in continued to stare without expression until Durellium said boldly "Wait!" Then he stood up from his minor stumble and continued "it's you!?" The female turned around and smiled making Durellium shake his head in confusion "CANTA?! What are you doing here? No better question what's going on!?" Canta turned her head around slowly away from him and said simply "I don't have to explain myself to you." And with that she wave her hand to the side swiftly and closed her fist. And with that Durellium was killed in an instant. His body shape was carved into the wall as 2 pipes from the rooms beside the steps stuck out of him adjacent to each other. One on his third and one on his eighth rib.

Leaving his life-less body on the steps Canta turns back towards Shino still with emotion-less eyes. The only movement seen was the flicker in her eye lashes, it was almost as if she had become a whole new person. Once his body fell from the pipes and hit every step before hitting the floor Christof yelled out Durellium's name in sadness. While Anastagio could only hold himself, shake his head in shock, and widened his eyes, as he could only keep staring at his only brother's body lying on their steps with a broken neck and more injuries then he could count.

Shino then apologized many of times saying frantically "please Hades I can fix this, I can, this was the solution it was-" but was cut off by Anastagio yelling out Canta's name in anger and frustration. "You little WITCH! I CANT BELIEVE I THOUGHT OF YOU AS ANYTHING MORE THEN WHAT YOU ARE! YOU SPAWN OF SATAN! I HATE YOU, I HATE YOU, I HATE YOOOU!" And with that he grabbed a piece of wood that had fell from the railing of the steps and ran towards Canta with it. Canta didn't even take the energy to turn around or even move a mussel all she did was close her eyes as she let the words "Death" come off her lips. With that Anistagio fell to the ground, dead. His body left just behind Canta, having his hand just an inch away from her green heels.

Shino started to shake when Canta opened her eyes in a swift movement then began to speak to Shino "You had your chance, now chance be gone, slave you will be, for forever on." Then two thick, red, burning metal, bracelets appeared on Shino's wrists with smoke floating off. Shino screamed in agony, as the metal burned her, making Canta angrier saying Did I say you could speak?" Canta then snapped her finger, which cut out her tong, and placed a red metal zipper across her mouth. Canta then continued while Shino's tong floated in front of both of their eyes "you will get it back when you learn how to obey. Now come."

As Canta turns around to walk out the door she sees Christof in utter shock shaking on his knees she laughs then says, "now you will feel exactly what Ebony and her Mother went through, the sadness of losing your sons is the sadness EBONY felt when she lost her mother, and the Emotional breakdown Ebony went through is what you will go through too, and her Mothers emptiness and sadness you will face too forever until the end of time!" Canta then grabbed Ebony, stopping her spasm, and said "I will raise you as my own, as my apprentice, but I will let you choose. Would you like to stay here with your neurotic stepfather and take care of him? or be with me, live forever, and be able to learn the powers of underworld?"

Ebony looked around at the room of dead body's, and her step father, Christof, who was rubbing the floor with his head saying "cleanly is nice, cleanly is for the floors, but not on you Elisabeth." She felt saddened for her Step-Father. She knew what it was like to go through that, the mood swings, the voices, the pain, and worst of all the realization that you will never be able to own or change what you did. Ebony then looked to Shino and said "I-I I know what it feels like to be him, to go through what he's going through, can't-can't we take him with us and-and he could be the slave or something?" Canata then shook her head as she lightly grabbed Ebony's chin "I'm sorry but...no its impossible" then Ebony backed up slightly and said "well, but-I mean...you haven't fulfilled your promise to my mother yet!" Canta sighed then said, "we can take care of you but you have to choose us to finish this promise" then Ebony said slowly "I will if you please just take him with us I wouldn't want anyone to go through that on their own or at least take it off of him he knows what it feels like now so he can sit and think about what he's done! He could have sent me to the Mad-Bin, but he kept me, isn't that something? Please I'm begging." Ebony's voice was cracking and her eyes started to water making Canta sigh very loudly then say "you have TWO choices, the thing about being and having the powers I have is that once I say something there is no going back NONE. I'm sorry."

Ebony then took a deep breath after a little while thinking and said while looking down "....ok....I'll go.....he deserves it anyway....he made me killed my own Mother." And with that Canta smiled and walked away with Ebony next to her side and Canta following close behind her.

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The End