Chapter #15
Sally stared at her hand in astonishment. She felt no pain, after all, she was a rag doll, but the sudden sight of having your hand pierced by a sword that wasn't there a moment ago, seemed to put her in silent shock as she stared. She was still falling, but since it was a long drop, she had enough time to realize, it wasn't Jack's sword that cut her.
The girl pulled the sword from Sally's hand, and showed her. A silver slit in her palm held the blade in perfectly. She retracted the blade, and the sword was gone, revealing only the slit where the blade had come from. Sally couldn't even speak. All she could do was watch. She put her hand against the girls, and felt no difference. When she tried to touch the slit, she felt nothing but skin, as though it were just an illusion.
The girl clutching her hand smiled. Sally smiled back. Something inside of her awoke, and she felt something. This girl... Why was she so important? Clutching the girl's hand, Sally pulled her up against her chest, and rolled in mid-air so that she was on the bottom, first to hit the bubbling hot mass that lay below them only a few feet away now.
Sally closed her eyes as she awaited the heated death that lay below. The girl smiled again, and kissed Sally on the cheek. As she did so, she pulled another sword, and it glowed a brilliant bright glowing blue. Sally was again hypnotized. The girl leaned to Sally's ear, and whispered one more thing before they hit the liquid. "Revenge."
After the word, a horrible shockwave ripped through the cave, and the lime-light slime turned a vicious azure blue. It glowed so bright Sally was forced to cover her eyes for a moment. During that moment, the girl had unfurled her wings, and flew into the air, bringing Sally up with her. Looking up, Sally saw the girl magically transform into Angel. "Angel! You're alive!" Sally exclaimed. Angel looked down to her.
"You were right Sally. This has to stop." Her smile broadened. "Did you really think you would have to face this alone?" She flew into the air, her powerful black wings rippling as the blue air now turned cold. Jack stood above them all holding the sword directly above him, his head tilted back and his laughter echoing off the walls. With his other hand, he pulled a dagger from inside his cloak. Looking up, he saw the silhouette of both Angel and Sally. His laughter stopped, and the sword lowered in his grasp.
"You... I killed you!" He screeched. Angel smiled, and shook her head, Sally holding onto her hip like a young child. Sally hid her face in terror. She didn't want Angel to hurt him, but this seemed to be the only way to stop him. She retracted the blue sword, and produced a red one. Ruby. Pure ruby, about the length of a samurai sword.
"It's over Jack. We may have lost the real menace, Seralicore, but you have taken her place with an iron fist." She moved her hand level to him, the blade pointed at his chest. "You have killed the people here without the notion of any mercy." She took aim. "And now, your own time has finally come. Your reign of terror is finally over. I'm sorry Jack."
Sally clung to Angel, and hid her face again, tears streaming from her eyes. "Jack..." She whispered. Angel shot the sword, and it hit Jack directly into the chest, right where his heart would have been.
A horrible roar escaped his lips, and another shockwave rocked the inside of the cave. The walls began to crumble, and the azure slime burned, and exploded, bursting against the side of the ship. It looked as though the ship were being consumed by a massive blue fire. A white light escaped the place Angel had shot him with the blade, and he fell to his knees at the bow of the ship where the people now looked on in wonder. They watched silently as the tyrant was finally being stopped. Angel's original body had disappeared, so Sally had now noticed.
Jack roared again, dropping his arms to his sides. Tears streamed from the black holes that were his source of sight. The light began to dim, and as it finally die down, and azure water still bubbled, and the shockwave still shook the room, Jack took a final look up at Sally and Angel. The tears were turning dark, dark red. Red like blood. His arms fell completely to his sides now, and he was still down on his knees, like a small child. His mouth was open in the expression of, "How could you? Why would you do this to me?" He lifted a shaking bony hand, and pointed it at Angel and Sally. Sally could handle it no more. Her own sadness overwhelmed her.
"Angel... What have you done?" She whispered. Angel looked on, her expression emotionless. Her shoulders were stiff, and her wings made no move. She seemed to be floating on the air. She ignored Sally's comment.
"He wants you to feel that way. Don't show emotion Sally. Don't. He will use your pain against you, to reverse what I have done. This is for his own good, as well as those below." She pointed to the dais where the people were being held.
Jack's cloak wrapped around him in the wind, and his expression deepened with the fact that no one was paying attention to him. Angel looked down on him, and slowly descended in order for him to realize, she was not going to reverse her spell. "Whatever evil you have caused, is over. You will never rise again to view the damage you have done." With this, she pulled a black sword from its sheath. It was a samurai sword with four gold diamonds along the handle on each side. Two black ribbons protruded from the back, and blew in the wind. "In the name of God, all holy souls will be avenged, and the dead shall be commenced. Amen!" She screamed, and shot the sword, again, right through his heart. This time, Jack didn't make a sound.
He froze, as though he were shot, and looked down. Skeleton or no skeleton, blood was oozing from the place he'd been shot. Pain, horrible racking pain, seared through his rib cage. Again, he looked up at the two, and again, he cast Sally with a mournful expression.
The shockwave intensified, and the bubbling azure slime began to grow very violent. It crashed so high against the ship, it nearly scorched the people standing on top. Jack looked down at it, and then back down to the people below. The light was dimming, and the wound that caused the shockwave wasn't hurting as much as before. Strange calmness took over Jack's soul. Looking up at Sally again, the only thing he could do was let the bloody tears fall. She could do nothing. In his last minute of life, he looked up at her. "I love you... Heart of Stone..." And fell.
