Chapter 7: Chapter 4.9: Loss

Like in Chapter 2.5, I will use bold blue letters and this symbol {} to signify "Amelia plan" or flashback scenes.

{Amelia:" Alright, now that I know what you can do, I gotta ask. Council girls, have you ever fought something together, like, as a team?"

Bae:" Nope, never."

Mumei:" There was never a need to for us to team up against anything... "

Fauna:" I don't even do fighting, I only fought someone once cause I didn't have a choice!"

Amelia:" Oh you mean Calli, right? I remember that! Well, not really, I couldn't see much of the fight myself... Oh hey Kronii, you can replay it for us when this is over! "

Kronii:" Yeah sure, when this is all over. "

Amelia:" Okay so, just to confirm, none of you have ever teamed up against anything? "

Kronii:" Uh yeah, no. "

Sana:" I've never even fought anything... "

Amelia:" PERFECT! " everyone looked at her with confusion in their faces.

Gura:" Uhhh what? "

Amelia:" Let me explain what I mean. We are going to make The Ancient Ones think they're winning. You will attempt to attack them as a team but, you'll fight bad on purpose while doing that. Since you don't know how to fight as a team in the first place, that shouldn't be hard. You could even pretend to accidentally hit each other, just don't do it too hard. "

Kronii:" Uhh is this necessary? "

Amelia:" Yes! We don't know how strong The Ancient Ones are now or what they can do so, it's important that we catch them off guard. When they think that you guys can't fight, you'll throw them off with a cool combo attack! Oh wait, Mumei! "

Mumei:" Yes? "

Amelia:" That wind thing of yours, can you turn it off maybe? Since we're trying to make them think they're winning, it would be bad if their arm just bent cause of you or something. "

Mumei:" Oh yeah, I can turn it off! I did that for Kiara during our fights! "

Kiara:" Hmph, even though you did that, I still couldn't win... "

Mumei:" It was still fun though! "

Kiara:" Yeah I guess... "} 

As soon as the girls heard Amelia say that, they all knew what they had to do. Fauna slowly goes inside of the ground, Kiara and Mumei both disappear, leaving craters on the ground they used to stand on. Bae goes inside of one of her portals. The Ancient Ones are just watching them but, aren't impressed, they still don't see them as a threat.

AO:(What are they trying now? Another pathetic attempt at teamwork?)

Kiara appears behind them, they notice her right away and turn around. With flames covering her left foot, she does a sideways kick, they block it with their hands and get sent to the ground, making a crater in it upon landing. Then they notice that their hands are melting, from their forearms down, until they're gone completely. Fauna starts appearing from the ground behind them, she turns her right arm to diamonds and punches a hole straight through their chest. She seems to get surprised by her own strength.

Fauna:" Uhhh whoops!" she takes her arm out of them and begins to return into the ground.

Amelia:" Just keep going everyone, they can regenerate!"

Mumei suddenly appears in front of them with tornados spinning around her fists.

Mumei:" TWIN TORNADO STRIKE!" She slams both of her fists against their chest, her tornados make them bounce off the ground and send them into the air.

Her tornados dissipate and Kronii appears in the sky in front of them. They quickly regenerate their hands and the hole in their chest but they're not fast enough, she goes in and punches them in the face which pushes them away.

Kronii:" Damage Replay." she calmly says and The Ancient Ones get punched in the face three more times, seemingly by nothing.

As they're being further pushed away, Sana appears above them.

AO:(Sana!)

Sana:" GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSE!" she yells out and punches them in the stomach, sending them back to the ground incredibly fast, making a huge crater in the ground.

AO:(Her punch feels so heavy... We cannot move... It is as if her fist is still pressed against Us...)

The Ancient Ones are stuck against the ground, they look as if they're being pushed down by a strong invisible force. All of a sudden, they see Gura running up to them. She spins her trident with both hands and then slams it against the ground. A huge tsunami begins to rise from the ground. Hundreds of water sharks are appearing in it, all going after The Ancient Ones.

AO:(What is this? There is no way they would use the shark to try to finish us off, she is far too weak. Even eating one of those apples would not help her. This must be a distraction... Even so, we cannot let ourselves get hit by such a pathetic attack!)

They break out of Sana's gravity attack, jump up and start flying backwards. They spread their arms wide and multiple pentagrams appear in the sky next to them. Purple beams start shooting from them and they kill every single one of Gura's water sharks. They then turn around and see another huge water shark, way bigger than the previous ones.

AO:" DID YOU THINK WE HAD NOT NOTICED THIS?!"

The Ancient Ones extend two tentacles towards the shark but, before they reach it, the shark pops as if it were a balloon, The Ancient Ones are shocked when they see that Bae was inside the shark.

Bae:" Nope!" She grabs both of their tentacles, one in each hand and shoots them with a red laser from her eyes. Gura's tsunami falls down back into the ground, Bae's laser pushes The Ancient Ones away and the tentacles that she was holding rip off. They continue to travel into the direction of the same building Kiara crashed into. The girls are all following them on the ground. Once the Ancient Ones get close enough to the building, Fauna once again puts her hands against the ground and a huge oak tree grows in front of the building. The Ancient Ones crash into the tree, Bae stops her laser eyes and drops the tentacles that she was holding onto the ground. Fauna throws a wooden spike towards the Ancient Ones and it splits into four, piercing both of their hands and feet.

Kiara and Mumei stand next to each other and point their palms towards The Ancient Ones. Kiara puts her left hand next to Mumei's right hand. Mumei starts shooting a tornado from her palm and Kiara shoots flames from hers.

Kiara & Mumei:" FLAMING TORNADO!!" they say at the same time as they fire their combined attack.

The Ancient Ones start melting but Fauna's tree remains undamaged, she's healing it the whole time from their attack.

AO:(These girls... They pretended to not know how to fight as a team, to catch Us off guard!)

Amelia:" Gura! Throw your trident in there!"

Gura:" WHAT?! That wasn't in the plan!"

Amelia:" I know, we're improvising, just do it!"

Gura listens to Amelia and throws her trident into the flaming tornado. It starts to spin and turn orange.

AO:" WE WILL NOT LOSE TO THE LIKES OF YOU! "

As they see Gura's trident getting close to them, The Ancient Ones get angry and dozens of huge tentacles jut out of their back, they envelop both Fauna's tree and the building behind it, crushing them both to bits. They duck and Gura's trident misses them and continues flying into the sky, they instantly disappear and appear on the ground in front of them. They wrap every single one of the girls with their tentacles and start to regenerate their melted body.

AO:" We must admit, that quite the trick you pulled. But unfortunately for you, it was not enough."

Gura moves her fingers up and her trident starts returning from behind The Ancient Ones. They notice it and summon two huge black hands and grab the trident between them. They drop it and it starts returning to its original blue color.

Gura:" Ghh dammit..."

Fauna notices that one of her apples is on the ground and tries to reach it. She starts growing a small tree under it to bring it closer to her.

Fauna:" If I could only... Get the apple..."

The Ancient Ones notice her trying to grab her apple and they take it instead of her.

AO:" How nice of you, Ceres Fauna. We have been wondering what would happen if We were to eat this."

Fauna:" Noooooo!" everyone has a look of concern upon seeing them take the apple.

The Ancient Ones open their mouth wide and swallow the apple whole. Amelia suddenly gets a smug look on her face.

Amelia:" Haha hook, line and sinker! Just as planned!" suddenly, The Ancient Ones drop all of them and appear to be unable to move.

Ina:" I can't believe that worked..." she says and all of the girls start picking themselves up from the ground.

AO:(What is going on? Is it the apple? Was something in it?) they wonder until they notice something about Amelia. The three syringes that were on her thigh are gone.

{Amelia:" After your combined attack is finished, The Ancient Ones will break out and capture us all. None of us will attempt to to dodge it." everyone is confused upon hearing her say that.

Bae:" Wait what?"

Amelia:" I suspect that The Ancient Ones are unkillable at this point so, trying to do that would be dumb. That's why, you will use the combined attack in order for all of us to get captured."

Fauna:" I don't think I understand, how will us getting captured by them help? "

Amelia:" I'm glad you asked! One of your golden apples will be our trump card."

Fauna:" My golden apple? "

Amelia:" Yes. Throughout this whole fight, we will pretend that your golden apple is able to enhance our abilities, and boost our power. You will all be holding back during the fight but, upon eating the apple, you'll use stronger attacks to deceive them. If The Ancient Ones try to take the apple, you will destroy it, to make them think that the boost in power would also affect them. After we get captured, Fauna, you will attempt to reach your apple but, this time we will let The Ancient Ones take it instead. They'll probably think that they can kill us without the apple but will still eat it because they want to be more powerful. But, the apple that they will eat, will be filled with Watson's Concoction! "

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Amelia:" Come on, let me hear your praise!" she says and puts her hands on her hips.

Ina:" Uhhh Ame, do you really think something like that will work on them? "

Amelia:" Well, thanks to Kronii, we already know that Watson's Concoction works on divine beings. I doubt they'll fall to their knees and start throwing up but, a triple dosage should at least paralyze them for a minute. "

Kronii:" YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO REMIND ME OF THAT! "

Amelia:" Hahahaha! "}

AO:(They planned everything? Even getting captured?)

Amelia:" Fauna's golden apple doesn't give any kind of boost in power. They were only pretending it does, so you'd want to eat it. But then apple you ate had a triple dosage of Watson's Concoction! " The Ancient Ones look both angry and confused upon hearing her say that.

AO:(The drug she made... But, how could a drug made by a human... Be affecting Us ?)

Amelia:" I know what you're thinking. You're wondering how a drug made by a human is affecting you. Hehehe!"

Bae:" You wanna know how it's affecting you? It's because it has my spit in it!" she says and then takes the key off her collar, swallows it and gets in front of them.

Kiara:" Bae? What are you doing? "

Bae:" Improvising! Do you your part right after this! "

Bae shapes her right hand in the form of a claw and inserts it inside of The Ancient Ones' stomach. Black and purple energy starts running up her arm.

AO:(She is... Trying to take our power...)

Bae takes her hand out and materialize a small black box in her left hand, then puts their energy inside of it, the box closes and locks itself up. Bae backs away from them, gives a thumbs up to Kiara and she nods at her.

Kiara:" CALLI! DO IT NOW!"

Calli suddenly appears from the ground, right in front of The Ancient Ones, with her palm pointed towards them.

AO:(The Reaper...)

Calli:" Grave of Being! " she says and a huge iron maiden appears behind the Ancient Ones. It opens up and captures them.

Amelia:" Throw them, Calli!"

A huge skeleton appears behind Calli, it grabs the iron maiden and throws it forward.

{Amelia:" After The Ancient Ones eat the apple and get paralyzed, Kiara, that's where Calli comes in. You told her what I said in the message right? "

Kiara:" Yeah, she was there and I was reading it out loud but, you didn't really say anything specific..."

*Flashback*

Kiara(reading Amelia's message):" I'm assuming you woke up cause you sensed a huge amount of energy. That means we were successful in splitting Ina away from The Ancient Ones. But, it's not over yet. Now we have to get rid of them. Kiara, you come over here as fast as you can but, tell Calli not to come with you. I don't exactly know what we'll do just yet but, we will keep her for the end. Find a way to contact her without using a phone and you'll tell her what to do afterwards. Good luck. "

Calli:" So, I gotta stay behind huh. "

Kiara:" Looks like it. I don't know what she's planning but we should listen to her."

Calli:" Yeah but, how will we contact each other without a phone? "

Kiara:" Don't worry, I know what to do! See this badge on my shirt?" she says and points to her badge. "I got another one and we can talk through it!"

Calli:" Oh cool! Well come on, give me the other one!"

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Kiara materializes the badge in her left hand.

Kiara:" Here!"

Calli:" Oh I thought it would be in a drawer or something..." she takes it and sticks the badge onto her dress. " Alright, I'm gonna go check if this thing works in the Underworld!"

Calli disappears into the ground and appears into her room in the Underworld.

Calli:" Test, test, can you hear me? "

Kiara:" Oh yes! I can hear you! Alright, I'm off now!"

*End of Flashback*

Amelia:" Yeah I know but, you have a way of talking to her, right?"

Kiara:" Yes! We can talk through the badge on my shirt!"

Gura:" Oh wait, Calli is in there? Hi Calli! " she says into Kiara's badge but gets no response.

Kronii:" Idiot, she can't hear you, time is stopped. "

Gura:" Oh... I knew that of course! "

Amelia:" Now, a question for you Bae. That portal you came out of, where does it lead to? "

Bae:" Uhhh my room..."

Amelia:" Oh... Can you not like, make a portal into another dimension or something? " 

Bae:" I'm not sure, I've never tried it..."

Amelia:" Hmmmm..."

Sana:" Did you want to seal them in another dimension?"

Amelia:" Yeah... I already suspect they can't be killed so, this is the next best thing."

Sana:" Then what if we all combine our powers? If we all try to at the same time, we could definitely create another dimension! "

Kronii:" That sounds doable. "

Amelia:" Oh! That sounds like it'll work! Alright then, that settles it! Oh and... If this all somehow fails then, if you guys have any hidden tricks up your sleeves, a secret move or something, that would be a time to use it... "}

The Council girls all go after the iron maiden that Calli threw. They appear above it and they all put their right hands next to each other's and form a circle with them. The circle starts to glow and the iron maiden gets sucked into into another dimension. The Council girls all return to stand next to the others. The Council are all standing next to each other to the left, with Myth to the right. Gura quickly goes to pick up her trident and then returns to stand between Amelia and Ina.

Calli:" I'm seeing some unfamiliar faces here but, I guess we should leave the introductions for later. It's still too early to celebrate."

{When The Ancient Ones threw Kiara and she hit that building.

Kiara:(This is my chance! I'll have to make it look like I'm gonna take a lot of damage from this...)

The throw and Kiara hitting the building, weren't actually strong enough to do a lot of damage to her. So she bit her own tongue upon hitting the building, to spit out blood and make it look more serious. Then she went and took a metal rod from the wall a shoved it through her heart.

Kiara:" Ouch! I don't know if that was necessary but it'll definitely look cool when I get out heh." then she looks at her badge "Hey Calli! Can you hear me?" she says quietly.

Calli:" Kiara! What's going on over there!"

Kiara:" It's complicated and I don't have much time right now. I'll just tell you the important parts. Everything happened how Ame said it would, Ina is safe!

Calli:" Oh that's great to hear! I was a bit skeptical but I knew I shouldn't have doubted Watson! "

Kiara:" And also, Mumei is here! With some of her friends too. One of them is The Warden of Time, Amelia's biggest enemy but, it turned out that they're not really enemies and they're friends now!"

Calli:" WHAT?! "

Kiara:" Okay okay, I might be saying too much here! I can't talk to you for much longer! " right after she said that she heard Fauna talking to her and sees her apple coming towards her, and grabs it. " Calli, I gotta go soon so listen carefully! When I call you next time, you're going to trap The Ancient Ones with that one attack you used on me that one time! "

Calli:" Uhhh which one?!"

Kiara:" The one with the iron maiden!"

Calli:" Oh! Okay got it!"

While Mumei was attacking The Ancient Ones

Amelia:" Oh no, please don't tell me she forgot about the plan... "

Kronii:" I'll go remind her. "

After they almost hit each other and Kronii started whispering to Mumei.

Kronii:" Dude, what are you doing, did you forget about the plan?"

Mumei:" What plan?! "

Kronii:" We are supposed to be holding back, until we eat Fauna's golden apple! "

Mumei:" I WAS holding back!"

Kronii:" You were?! Well hold back more!"

Mumei:" Ughh lame! "}

Amelia's plan was perfect, the girls' acting was near perfect. But it wasn't enough. The box in Bae's left hand suddenly starts to shake and everyone turns to look at it.

Bae:" Oh no... "

The box explodes, the power which she took from The Ancient Ones starts going in the direction of where Calli threw them and afterwards, they can hear a sound which resembles glass breaking.

From the same direction where The Ancient Ones went, a big purple beam comes at Gura, it goes straight through the left side of her chest, leaving a huge hole in it. She spits out blood, drops her trident and starts to fall to the ground backwards. Everyone turns to her and they can't believe what just happened. 

Amelia:" GURA!!!" she drops Kronii's sword and with a face full of tears, she screams out her best friend's name, as she's reaching out to catch her. She grabs her and falls to her knees, with Gura's head on her lap. "No, no, no, please no!"

The Council girls are trying to hold their tears in but the Myth girls can't. Ina falls to ground next to Amelia and Gura and starts crying. Kiara with her fists clenched, is both angry and sad. Calli looks both confused and sad, she doesn't understand what just happened.

Gura:" A-Ame... I lo... - I'm s-sorry..." she says with her mouth full of blood and face full of tears. Amelia starts crying even more intensely upon hearing her talk. " I-I couldn't keep... M-my promise..."

Amelia:" NO, NO, DON'T SAY THAT!!" she says and turns to Fauna who was already walking towards them "FAUNA! WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR, HEAL HER! HEAL HER DAMMIT!"

Fauna:" I'm so sorry... It's too late..." Amelia's eyes widen as she says that.

Amelia:" WHAT NO, SHE'S STILL-" she turns to look at Gura and sees her with her eyes closed, not breathing and her heart not beating. "NO!! JUST A SECOND AGO SHE... She was still... "

Fauna:" Even if I tried to heal her right away, I wouldn't have been able to save her in time... I'm sorry... It's a miracle she was even able to speak after that..."

Amelia:" You're calling this... A miracle?... " she turns to look at Kronii " Kronii... Please... Turn back time... Like before... Please... Do it just one more time... I'm begging you... "

Kronii:" I'm sorry, I can't... "

Amelia:"... Calli... Can you do something? You can save her, right? Please... You can take me instead, just bring her back, please... "

Calli doesn't even know how to respond to that. She's confused, sad for the loss of Gura, sad at the state Amelia is in.

Calli:" I can't... "

The first time it happened, Amelia must've known. In the back of her mind, she knew there was something she could do. But now... No one is answering her pleas, no one can save her best friend.

Amelia:(Why? Why is this happening? No, this... This isn't happening. There's no way... She's really gone, isn't she?)

{Amelia:" Okay so, before Kronii resumes time, anyone got any last questions?"

Kiara:" Uhhh yeah, you're gonna hate me for this but what if, one of us, that isn't me or Calli, were too uhhh die..." Gura gets a scared look on her face when she hears that.

Amelia:"... Did you have to ask that? I... I don't know, let's just hope it doesn't come to that. But if it does, just... Try not to lose your minds... "

Bae:" Can we even die? "

Mumei:" Hmmmm I might be able to, I don't think you guys can though."

Amelia:" Alright well, any less depressing questions? "

Gura:" Ame wait! I need to tell you something! " she grabs her by her hand and drags her away from everyone. They go between two buildings, where no one can see or hear them.

Amelia:" What's up! Why'd you drag me over here?"

Gura:" Uhhh it's just... There's something I've wanted to tell you for a while now and I might never have a chance to say it so, I'm doing it now... Ame I-"

Amelia:" Wait, what do you mean by that? Never have a chance to say it? You... Don't think we're gonna lose, do you? "

Gura:" I-I don't know... " she says with her head down.

Amelia:" Hey! We have the council with us now! There's no way we'll lose! "

Gura:" I know! But, I'm not like The Council... I'm pretty sure those girls can't die and I... Well, I've already died once..."

Amelia:" But, you promised..."

Gura:" Ame... We both know that's not something I can just promise... "

Amelia:" Gura... What's with you? Where's all this coming from? "

Gura:" I guess what Kiara said made me think... She probably didn't realize it but, You, Ina and I are the only ones who can die here so, what she really meant is, what if one of us dies... And in case something happens, I need to tell you this! Ame, I lo-" Amelia put her hands on her ears and started walking away as soon as she heard that.

Amelia:" AAAAAAHHH I CAN'T HEAR YOU, I CAN'T HEAR YOU! "

Gura:" Grrr Ameee! " she goes after her, grabs her hand and she turns around. 

Amelia:" Don't say anything! If you have something important to say, you can say it after this is all over. Because we're gonna make it. Both of us. No, all of us!"

Gura:" Ame..."

Amelia:" Besides, I have something really important to tell you too! Believe me, you'll want to hear it! " she says with a smug look on her face.

Gura:" What, really?! Then tell me! "

Amelia:" Nope! We'll both say our important thing after this is over. Okay?"

Gura:" Ugh okay... "

Amelia:" And don't ever think like this again... "

Gura:" Sorry... "

They both hug and then return to the rest of the girls.

Amelia knew what Gura wanted to tell her but, her way of thinking made her mad and she didn't want to hear it.}

During Gura's last moments both of them were thinking of the same thing.

Gura & Amelia:( I never got to tell her how I feel...)

To be continued...

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