Who Are You?

Chapter 19

The battle was still going on. There were a lot of people down. We lost mom, dad, Frank, and even Cherry. The whole team was getting drained, even me. Myst disappeared again and the monsters were dead or at least unconscious. We were panting and losing our breaths. And more and more explosions were coming, some were close and some were far. "That coward left again?" Xena complained. "Goddammit!" Cullin shouted as he punched a nearby tree (which was stupid). Everybody fell, either sitting or on their knees. We were exhausted, we used most of our energy on those damn things. We were careless, we didn't think, and now look at where we were. Agnes was still holding onto the fact that Cherry saved her, and just like that, she slammed her fist to the ground. "Damn. Damn damn damn damn damn damn DAMN!" I saw a tear fall from Agnes's eye, it was a first for all because she never cried. Even in the worst of time or out of joy, she never cried. It's like she was emotionless. But the dam broke and tears started shedding from her eyes. It even made Fran and Blue cry a bit. "Why did she have to do that?! WE WERE TRYING TO SAVE HER!" Agnes screamed. "We can't go on, not like this." Blue decided. "We're all dead tired and Myst is just too powerful." Farrah added. "No matter what magic we use, he either reflects or rejects." Rhea added. "But we can't give up." "Look at you!" Agnes shouted, "look at you. You're wounded as well and you're getting weak. We can't go on!" "We have to move ahead, we can't let them down." I said. "Our city is getting blown to bits as we speak, we should just accept defeat." Fran said. "Listen to yourselves, we get knocked down by some measly monsters and you give up, just like that? We've fought bigger things, our own personal issues. And we got through them." "This is different, sis." Cullin said. "No, this is the same." I slowly got up, "I'm gonna go save the world for my family and my friends, whoever wants to join me is glad to." I ran down this path, using my visions to find out where he is. Meanwhile, "I can't leave her to herself." Rhea got up slowly and went down the same path I went down. "She's my sister. Even though we're dead ass tired, I can't just sit back without going along with her determination." Cullin got up slowly, smiled, and walked down the path. "And I'm his guardian." Farrah got up slowly and walked down the path as well. Xena and Darren looked at each other, got up and walked down the path. "Even if this is crazy, I can't help but agree with Amy." Agnes got up, "I'll fight...for Cherry!" And walked down the path. Blue and Fran didn't want to stay in the woods alone so they went along by default. It was like a maze game trying to get over with this battle. We stumbled and we fell at some points but we kept marching on. I had hope, we were gonna win this fight and end this twenty year war.
We finally caught up to Myst, and just in time because he was getting on this jet like ship. Probably to his even bigger ship because he seems egotistical like that. "Stop!" I shouted, "how did you defeat all my monsters?" He asked, "simple, we worked as a team to defeat your lame monsters." Agnes replied. "Yeah, the one thing you lack." Rhea added. "I don't need a team, working by myself is all I need to take over the universe!" He laughed as he was getting on the ship. "Oh no you don't." Cullin used his water spit to stop him, at first we thought he was going to miss, but he didn't. The water hit one of the electrical buttons and jammed the monstrous thing, making it shut down so he wouldn't go anywhere. Rhea fired her lightning strike to electrocute him but he used his earth magic to defend himself. But Xena and Darren fired their lightning magic to break the barrier. Myst fired his fire magic and his earth magic one by one. Some hit us and some didn't since we worked together to use our water and lightning magic. Then suddenly, someone came from the bushes, a young blondish-brown hair boy and girl. "Frank Jr, Bee, what are you doing here?!" Xena shouted, "we want to help." Frank Jr responded, "yeah!" "We're kind of busy here." Darren said. But then Bee took a huff of the air around us and blew out some kid of white breeze that made Myst's flames extinguish. Agnes, Fran, Blue, Xena, and I turned around with our mouths hanging wide open as Bee smiled with giddy. "Oh yeah, I forgot. Mom has air powers." Darren laughed at his mistake, Xena squinted her eyes at him, mind reading that he was an idiot. "Let us help." Frank Jr begged, "okay, whatever, we don't have time for this. He can run any minute." I shouldn't've said that because he turned about to run. "Stay!" Rhea shouted shooting one of her lightning bolts, making him fall to the ground but get right back up. It was so annoying because he would not stay down.
He fired his flame power again, this time aiming towards Bee but she stopped it with her air breath. The battle started up again and one by one, shot after shot, we weren't getting anywhere near the end. Two more explosions went off I kept hearing the faint screams from down below. It hurt my heart, literally. I felt a sickly feeling in my stomach. And I thought I heard some cries down below but maybe that's just me hearing things. "You hear that? Your precious city is about to be gone forever." He laughed maniacally. Another explosion went off, and another, and another. One was far away from the city and the other were far from the prom venue. "You can kiss your precious boyfriend goodbye." I got pissed, he wasn't my boyfriend but still, I was pissed. "You lay a finger on Brian, I SWEAR TO GOD ILL KILL YOU!" He laughed even louder, thinking what I said was a hilarious joke which it wasn't. "You can't kill me, I'm immortal!" And more laughter came about. "I'll find a way you scumbag!" I screamed, shooting my many water powers at him. "Amy, calm down." Everybody kept saying at once but I didn't listen, I wanted to kill this guy and be over with it. I was sick of it, I had enough. I couldn't give up but I felt like an angel with no wings, so did everyone else. Tears were welling up in my eyes, the rage inside of me was taking over and I couldn't control it. Then Blue had this abstract idea, she ran to Myst, trying to dodge my attacks as well and grabbed him in a chokehold. "Amy, stop!" She shouted but as I slowed down, one of my water shape sifts hit her arm, making a small cut down her arm. "Blue, what are you doing?!" Fran shouted. "Unhand me, girl." "No." Then she turned to me, "Cullin, Amy, he's restrained, now use something else to kill him!" "We tried everything! Cullin responded. "Your moisten ray." Rhea blurted out. "Like that will work." "It could distinguish the fire inside him, giving us the advantage to kill him." I still doubted her, "just try it." We got into position, we aimed for his body. With all our focus and most of our energy, we shot our moisten ray. It was the only idea we had left, I was hoping and praying it would work. Then I heard screaming. It was coming from Myst, the fire inside him was extinguishing. "Holy shit, it's working." Agnes mumbled. "Blue, back away!" I shouted. She slowly backed away with this shocked look across her face. Cullin couldn't believe it either, it was actually working. Rhea was right, it was extinguishing the fire inside him, rendering him powerless. But we couldn't hold on much longer, especially Cullin. Most of of energy was being drained. Cullin was running out, it was blinking in and out a bit. "I don't think...I can...hold...on...much...longer!" "Just...try!" I shouted back. "We can't...give up!" "I don't want to...give...up!" Cullin shouted. "Be careful!" Farrah shouted as well. "Just...gotta...push...THROUGH!" And like that, he got a second wind. We pushed harder and harder and harder. "Damn, how much fire is in him?" Agnes joked. "I don't know but I'm losing my second wind!" "Just hold on sis. Like you said, we can't give up!" Cullin shouted. "You're awesome little brother!" I shouted with a smile as he smiled back, turning our attention back to Myst. He kept screaming and screaming, the pain was killing him. It had to be at level five or something, I can feel it. Then I couldn't feel it anymore. Not the pain but the fire, I couldn't sense it. It's like it just poof, disappeared. Myst fell to his knees, in pain and pissed off. His fire was no more but his earth was still there. "You're gonna pay for that!" Suddenly, the ground moved and a dirt spear just shot up from the ground and it was towards Cullin and I too. But Xena stepped up, trying to lightning strike both of them but one slashed her side. "Agh!" She fell to her knees, bleeding pretty badly and in a lot of pain. "Xena!" I shouted in a weak tone, falling to my knees as well. "You bastard!" Cullin shouted shooting a one last attack until he started slowly falling to the ground. And he wasn't falling to his knees, he was literally falling. Farrah ran and caught him as he fell slowly to the ground, "Cullin!" She shouted in weakness, "Cullin, just hold on. Hold on for mom and dad." I was losing strength, this couldn't be the end. I wasn't going to go out like that, this couldn't be it. I wasn't ready to give up, he wasn't dead yet. I slowly started standing up, stumbling and falling but I managed to get up. "Amy, be careful." Rhea said. "I don't care, we need to find a way to kill this ass clown." I coughed. Then Frank Jr thought of it, "Amy, how you feelin?" He asked, "I may be weak but I ain't ready to give up." "Good. If we combine our powers, maybe just maybe, we can kill this son of a bitch. But with Cullin and Xena down, this isn't going to be easy." He said. "We can try." I agreed. "For Cullin." Farrah stood up. "For mom and dad." Bee got into position. "For Xena." Darren got into position. "For Cherry." Rhea got into position. "For Uncle Basmus and Aunt Lariene." Frank Jr got into position. "For our world and Blornot. We will face everything and rise!" Third times the charm, here we go. This may be the end of the battle, and we can finally move on. This twenty year long war is going to end and it's going to end now. "Everybody ready?" Rhea asked, "ready!" We all responded. "What's happening?" Myst questioned, "you won't get away with this!" "Oh but we will." I responded. "Air, now!" Frank Jr and Bee formed their wind shock, aiming at Myst. "Water, now!" I formed my moisten ray again and shot it at Myst, making his scream sound like music to our ears. "Lightning, now!" The rest formed their technique, electric storm. Shocking the enemy with an electrifying spark making their nervous system not intertwine with the rest of its body. It was a beautiful sight, his body was becoming irresistible to the magic power we were throwing at him. It was like this giant spark of light was shining towards the city, Frank Jr's plan was working, and we were winning. Just in time because I was running out of magical energy and I think everyone else was as well. Agnes, Blue, and Fran just stared at the amazement that was happening. The light was getting brighter, so bright we couldn't handle it. It was white and pure as a milk in a bottle. It was genuine, symbolizing that we were winning. A few more seconds and we'd be the champions. This would be all over and we could finally move on, be a little normal. It crushed him, it hurt him, "you haven't seen the last of me!" He shouted as he exploded. Bits and pieces of himself splattering all over the ground. Some hitting us even, it was gross. No, more like disgusting. There was blood all over and in the ground. Some on our skin and some in our hair, everywhere. We all fell to the ground, sighing in relief. It was over, it was finally over. We can live in peace now, no more fear. We finally had a smile across our faces. Then we remembered some other things. "What about Xena? And Cherry? Cullin? What about his friends?" I asked. "And the disaster explosions downtown." Fran added. "What are we going to do?" Farrah asked. "We have healing powers. We can heal the dead or the knocked out people but we can cure wounds." Bee suggested as she crawled over to Xena, putting her hands on her side, "I can't stop the bleeding and pain, but that's all I can do." She half smiled, "you tried your best." Xena said in a faint voice. "We should start heading back, we need to pick up Cherry." We slowly started getting up and heading down the path, back to the place we left Cherry. "Oh and by the way, Cullin's friends are fine. We found them beaten up badly though, same with Cherry's sisters. They were taken to the hospital by the passer by hiking the mountain." Frank Jr said, "thank you, everybody, for your help." I smiled. "If you didn't have that hunch at the dance, this planet would've been a goner and same to Blornot, thank you, Adelaide." Rhea said with a smile. "I've got a question. Why Adelaide?" Agnes asked, "Adelaide is a symbolic name used to represent a queen, in case, a nurturing queen." Rhea sterned. "Geez, I was just asking." We laughed until we ran into somebody. "Brian." I had this big smile on my face as I ran into his arms. "I saw it all, I saw everything. You all are brave and powerful." "I'm so glad you're okay." I sighed in relief, hugging him tightly and holding on tightly. "How's the city?" I asked, "badly damaged. Edgar had to evacuate the people in the ballroom, they're out in the park right now." I was confused. "Prom is still going on?" "The administrators extended the time, we now have an extra two hours." He smiled and I laughed. "That's awesome, we get to relax and have fun after battling a demonic douchebag." Agnes laughed. I stared into Brian's eyes and just realized something. I loved him, I was just too focused on other stuff that I didn't see it. He's been there, he's picked me up and dusted me off when I was broken and in the dirt. He stuck around for this long, I love him. "Brian." "Yeah?" He questioned. "I was an idiot." He was confused, "what do you mean?" He asked but I answered his question with my lips pressed against his. Not giving a damn about the time in the world or where we were, it's like time was standing still. And a small little spark just clicked between us. Although, some people didn't appreciate it, "hey Romeo and Juliet. We'd like to get these people to the infirmary so we can dance our asses off, got it?" Agnes joked. We un-kissed and laughed at the fact that time was of the essence. With heads held high and our back turned away from the battle field, we picked up the injured and headed on our way. And now, we can take the first steps into a new life.

Once we dropped off the injured to the infirmary, we headed to the park, where we were greeted by Edgar and everyone clapping and cheering. We cleaned up a bit before we came back though. "You all saved our town, we may have a lot to clean up but at least we don't have to start over. Thank you." Everybody shouted thank you's and we stood there, smiling with our brightest smiles we could ever give. And finally, we danced, we had our prom. But it wasn't over yet. There were no more battles but there were some of our own personal battles to finish up. But for now, we danced all night long. Danced until it was over and danced on our way through town. And we were going to keep dancing because that's the one thing we will remember in the aftermath.