To Kill A Queen

Ginny vs. Eli

Eli's POV

After Pandora's staff rand around the room, it started to rain. Dammit. My hair plastered to my face and I drew my swords. Ginny was up in the sky, one sword drawn. I had been with her long enough to know that she had another sword and knife on stand by. If I remembered correctly she also had a gun hidden somewhere. I had never see it though.

I stuck one of my swords in the ground and leaned on it. I looked up at her and smiled.

"Are we going to do this the traditional way or is this just all out war?"

She threw a knife me and it stuck in my arm. I looked at it.

"War then. Also, GOD DAMMIT! THAT FUCKING HURTS! WHAT THE HELL!"

Ginny laughed and I pulled the knife out forcefully, blood spraying the ground. 

Jean bumped into me as she was fighting Kiwi. She sliced at Jean's throat and she would've died if Blair hadn't flown in the way at the last second. Blair dropped dead and Kiwi looked horrified. She glared at Jean and went to go find Strawberry. Jean slipped down to her knees and wept over her fallen friends body. She looked up and if looks could kill, nobody would be alive.  She got up and wandered around swinging her sword at anything that moved.

I looked back up at Ginny. I used the wind to lift me up to her height.

"So good to see you again." I said.

"Yes." she agreed. "We met here and try to kill each other."

With that she lunged at me, swinging her sword around. I dodged and realized one of my swords was still in the ground below. Damn.

I sliced at Ginny and she parried.

"Oh honey." she purred. "did you forget who taught you? You can't possibly mean to best me in battle."

Her wings beat faster and I flew into a room in the castle. She flew in so fast I couldn't stand up. She stabbed me through my tunic and into my stomach. I coughed up blood and glared at her.

"You can't be bested if you cant die." I said.

She grinned and pushed me up against a wall. She took out her gun and the gun to my head. I looked at her with big eyes.

"Please don't do this. You can't kill me. Why try?"

"Because." She answered. "As you know both of us are incredibly smart. We could rule the world if we wanted to."

I smiled and nodded. We had talked about this before.

"But then you went and made yourself immortal with the Fountain of Youth." Her wings started to flutter with anger. Was she mad I couldn't get some of the fountain for her?

"When you drank after you killed River, were you aware that in order for you to gain eternal life, it kills someone?"

My heart nearly stopped. It did?

Her wings fluttered faster, lifting her off the ground. "Yes. It kills someone. And you just happened to kill April."

"The girl Bronze knew?"

Grace nodded. She still had the gun pointed at my head. "Once I shoot you, you're not going to die. You're immortal, and I'll probably still be in this world when you wake up. Fearies have incredibly long lives"

I remembered River, the person at the Fountain I had to kill to become immortal. Everyone I had ever known and loved flashed through my mind. All of my friends.

I looked up and met Grace's eyes. She lowered the gun toward my stomach area above where she stabbed me. She shot and I looked down. I covered it with my untied hands. She looked at my hands and used her magic to tie them above my head. Blood kept pouring out. She shot again, a few inches above the last and it went through my rib cage and into my right lung. I coughed up more blood and glared at her.

"Keep it comin."

She smiled and granted my wish. She shot my other lung and I gasped for breath, blood pouring out of my mouth and wounds. By now I was sitting in a pool of my own blood. It was a shiny dark red color. Her gun held six rounds. She had used four. She shot my throat. On round left. I was almost unconscious from the pain and blood loss. My vision swam, but I could see Ginny pointing the gun at my head.

Her finger curled around the trigger.

It tightened.

BANG