Revenge of the Past

Broken Friendship Values

AN- The official result was one vote for saving Addie, saving both Addie and the Order wasn't an official option, yet, but here's the next chapter for y'all.

3rd Person POV

"We pick Addie." Stone blurted out and was reinforced by the others, except Dreamer.

"Guys we promised..." Dreamer started but was interrupted by Aspen,

"Friends don't leave each other behind."

"I was expecting this..." Madegno grinned madly as Addie in his grasp, who had lowered her head to where her face was covered by shadows, was released and she fell to her knees with her balled fists holding her up.

Waving a smoky, clawed hand, the Order vanished as if they had never been there, but Ivy remained and was let out as the bars disappeared as well. She ran over to the gang and began to growl viciously as they all lowered their weapons in confusion.

"Ok, I did not see that coming." Beggip tilted her head in question.

"Your loyalty to each other is impressive, especially you," Madegno pointed a claw at Stone, "but I was counting on that to instill her rage..."

Just before he could question what that meant, Madegno became a smoke cloud again, closing around and disappearing into Addie.

"Addie?" Sadie walked forward two steps with her hand out when Addie's head lifted to reveal that her eyes had been filled with red and her face was twisted with rage.

"You promised!" She leaped forward to pin down Sadie before rising to the air with dark red wisps of power around her fists.

"You all promised, but you lied!"

"Addie, stop! This isn't you!" Lily Rose cried out before Addie curled in on herself gripping her head intensely as it appeared she was fighting for control again.

"We don't want to hurt you!" Ara yelled as she prepared an ice blast right before Addie straightened back out, cracking her neck, and grinning wickedly,

"As if you could..." Before making an X with her arms and shooting them back out, sending a rain of flames to the ground. Everyone took cover under a pile of debris that made an overhead for them to duck under.

 "Come out come out wherever you are, friends..." "Addie" hissed as she began blasting stacks of rubble she thought they were hiding behind.

"Well that worked..." Lily grumbled as she looked out from their hiding spot.

"How are we supposed to get Madegno out of her now?!" Lily Rose asked from her curled up position where a fire projectile missed the top of her head, barely.

"Look!" Ara pointed to where Addie was curling in on herself in midair again before straightening out and firing at them again.

"It's possible that while inside of an angry host, Madegno gains power." Ara started to explain before Beggip added on,

"But if the host's anger is gone and she takes back control while he's still inside of her, then she could vanquish him entirely."

"So, we just need to calm her down, like that's not going to be impossible." Stone argued as he used his enchanted stick to deflect an incoming flame.

"We just have to remind Addie of who she really is."

"Ruff!" Ivy started wagging her tail in excitement before Lily patted and told her,

"Sorry you little rascal, you need to stay here and wait until this is over." Her ears fell down in sadness until Lily Rose added,

"I don't think Addie would forgive herself if she hurt you on accident." This made some kind of sense to Ivy as she sat down and nodded once to show she understood.

"Alright, on the count of three, everyone split up and start shouting out your favorite memories. And not dying would be great while you're at it." Dreamer devised before mouthing a countdown from 3 and everyone ran out from the hiding spot and scattered around the room.

"Hey, Addie!" Aspen called out making rageaholic MadegnoAddie face her before trying to hit her with more flames, which she deflected with her sword, "Remember when you first came to the ranch and you thought all my horses were about to attack you, but it turned out they just wanted to get the hay you had in your pocket? You ran around the whole ranch at least 5 times before dropping it and flying away."

"Grrr..." Addie's eyes turned back to normal for a few seconds before taking back over and screaming in rage before more flames came their way. 

"Come on Addie, you need to remember!" Sadie yelled, "Remember when you fell right into Stampy's pond after you tried to rig some lights for him and you ended up spraying everyone within a 20 block radius?" This made her shudder again before resuming her attacks.

"Remember when you were struggling to build your house so everyone in Beacontown pitched in to help you and you thanked everyone with a free banner from your little stand right as it had opened?" Dreamer reminded Addie, making her scream again before falling down to the ground and wrapping her arms around herself as she shivered like a leaf in a storm.

"Remember when we first met? And we said it was like we had already met before?" Stone asked carefully approaching in front of her. In one last scramble for control, Madegno took over Addie and made her arm jerk upwards to grab Stone's throat in one hand, crushing it as he struggled to loosen their grip. The others were about to rush to his aid when he made a waving motion that signaled them to let him handle it, but they still had their weapons ready.

"It's me... I'm not losing anyone else important to me today, are you?" That was the final straw, Addie's eyes returned to normal and she let Stone go before she raised her hands to the air and turned her face to the ceiling before a burst of red light was expelled from her and exploded into the air, raining down red sparks to the ground that fizzled out. 

Slumping forward after the major power drain, Addie was about to fall to the ground had Stone not caught her and pulled her into a hug.

"Thank you..." She whispered as she slowly returned the hug

"Addie!" The others, including Beggip, Ara, and Ivy, rushed forward and joined in on the hug, smiling so hard their cheeks started to hurt. Ivy ran around the group trying to get to Addie until they cleared a small pathway to allow her through to lick the life out of Addie's face.

"Thank you guys for not giving up on me... I'm sorry I got so angry at you for breaking your promise." Addie rubbed her arm while looking down sadly after she was helped up.

"Like I said before, we don't trade lives, especially if we don't have to." Dreamer told her with a light punch on the arm.

"Well, it looks like this adventure is coming to a close..." Sadie looked around wistfully.

Suddenly, the ground started to shake and the walls around them started to crumble, the blocks narrowly missing hitting the group as Addie forced them away with her powers.

"You just had to jinx it..." Dreamer mumbled.

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AN- Boom! Cliffhanger! Sorry to break this news to you all, but this is the second to last chapter for this story, not counting the epilogue, which means this story is coming to a close. Never fear though, there will, possibly, be another book after this one, depending on how well the planning and reactions to the ending go. Until the next chapter, Bye!