Doom and Dispair

by Tyria

Chapter 5: Do-Muzude (Doomsday)

Okay, if I recall, this is the last chapter in this story, then I can move onto the third fic. You don't want to know how many I have, trust me on that one. I'm trying to remember what it was gonna be named... Lookin' through the big pile of papers now.... Oh cool, glowy!!....So that's where Chibi-Sephiroth went... Now that I've gotten into school work from grade three, I think it might be in a different pile of who-knows-what. I'll be right back... Ok, is it a bad thing when you've forgotten why you titled something? It makes no sense to me... Let's start this again. From what I know, and any of this could be changed in a moment's time, Story 3 should be called "The Destined", story 4 should be "Tundra", story 5 "Eternal Night", story 6 "Eternal Fire" (Stories 5 & 6 are sorta a duology...), story 7 "Walker's Power", story 8 "Walker's Fall" (Another duology-ish thing), story 9 (there's a lot, eh? I have tons of stuff story boarded.) "Voyage", story 10 "Prophecy" (guess what this'un involves, eh?) And 11 & 12 are "Mistakes" and "Mistaken", respectivly (Another Duology...) Not much, eh? I have more, but not here with me, so yer saved. Now, for the Do-Muzude...

Everyone was still giving me funny looks and I was about ready to slap'em all except that I was worried about Sendo. Where'd she disappear off to...

"Mia, what are you doing?" Uli asks suddenly, snapping me out of my reverie. I turn around to see that Mia has Cye in a headlock. I get a sudden pit in my stomach. Oh no...

"Ok, Mia, you can let go of me now." After Cye gets no responce for a minute, he questions, "Mia?"

"No, Torrrent, we do not think that would be wissse. " Mia clicks after the last remark. I was right. I get into my Under-Armor. "Doom! What did you do with Death!?"

"Like we'd tell you morrrtal ssscum. We may be usssing thisss pathetic body, but we arrre ssstill sssmarrrt enough to win thisss battle. We have no rrreassson to injurrre any of you, only my sssisssterrr, Sssendo. If Torrrent helpsss us to accomplish ourrr goal, then we will leave you all in peace." Her coils spread out and wrap around Cye, and she releases her arm from around him.

"Ro?"

"Sounds logical to me."

"Do you promise to leave Mia?"

"Yesss, once Death isss dead, I have no need forrr thisss pathetic vesssel. I can find much betterrr on a differrrent planet."

"Don't listen to her, she's lying! As soon as Death dies, Doom'll reproduce and we'll have three new symbiots taking us and making us destroy each other!"

"_LADY_ Tyria just doesn't want us to hurt her 'friend'. She's just making up flimsy excuses now! She'd be willing to kill us all just to save Death!"

"What? Kento, you pig-headed... Death saved my life, and she's been much kinder than you towards me, and I trust her. And, I don't care what you say, I'm gonna save her, with or without your help. One thing before I go off, you all call me a Ronin Warrior, and harp 'bout how Ronins stick together. Well apparently it's a load of bunk because you just turned down a Ronin for the easy way out. Y'know, I can't use my armor without Sendo. I don't know how to fight. But I'm gonna try anyway. Screw you, screw you all to the deepest pits of hell. Armor of the Celestia, Dao Enkatsu!"

Once I'm transformed, someone touches my shoulder. I turn to look at Sage. "I'll help you. I know what you mean. Earlier, Jiki explained it all to me."

"If Sage is in, than so am I. I'd never leave either of you to fight alone. After all, I'm your best-bud, Sage."

"Hey, you guys can't fight without your leader, right? I'm in."

"Uh, hello? I'm in, but only if you help me out a little bit first..." Cye states.

"Fine! I know when I'm out-numbered. Besides, I've never been one to back out from a good fight."

Ryo pats Kento on the back. "I knew we could count on you, Kento."

"Yah, well I'm one dependable guy."

A growl from my left side. I look down at BlackBlaze. "You gonna help too?"

BlackBlaze, in his white armor, roars.

"Ya! Doom, we're gonna wipe you off the face of the planet!" Ryo yells out courageously.

"Yeah!" Everyone yells out their agreeance. BlackBlaze yells, louder this time.

"Let's do this!" Ryo jumps forward and uses one katana and tries to cut through one of the coils, but it regenerates too fast.

"Sage, you attack, your No-Datchi should be to big for the coil!"

"Right!" Sage runs over and cuts all the coils with one massive downward swing of his sword. The split ends of the coils slide back across the ground towards Mia/Doom. They absorb themselves back into Mia's body.

"Tyria, you attack now." Rowen yells out.

"I can't! I don't know how to!"

"Than how come you always beat us?" Kento demands.

"Whenever we fight, Death is in control. _And_ the wings have changed my balance, _AND_ I don't even know how to make them fly!"

"Oh, great!"

I snap my fingers. "I've got it! She has to have Death in some sorta container. Excuse the implications, but, I'm gonna go raid the kitchen!"

Kento chuckles a little.

"No! You witch! Stay away from there! Sendo is mine!!" Doom sends her coils all at me, even the ones holding Cye. He stumbles away and turns to face her, ready for the battle at hand. She sharpens the points so they're as sharp as knives. My left wing shoots forward on reflex, and let me tell ya one thing, it may look like feathers but it's really metal.

Loud clangs ring out as the coils strike my wing and bounce off harmlessly, not even leaving a scratch. The the sudden balance shift caused by my wing sends me tumbling forward but I use it as a role and wind up standing. I race towards the house with Cye guarding my back.

I finally get there. I hear a clash behind me and some starnge alien symbols flow across my scanner. Damn. I don't know how to read this damn thing. It's in Sendo's language. ~Sendo, Sendo, are you in here? Do you know where you are?~

~Mortal?~ I can barely hear her voice, but that's what it's like when we're not attached. When I symbiot melds to you, they create a link to you that exists until one of you die. If they are on the same planet as you, they can talk to you, although it might be hard to hear.

~Yes, it's me. Sendo, we need your help, tell me where you are!~

~I'm in the kitchen, I think. I'm not sure. I'm in a glass jar of some sort. I can't see anything so it must be enclosed in something.~

~I'll find you, just tell me when you see some light, ok Sendo? Just hang on.~

I start opening every cabinet and drawer I can find. I open the door to get under the sink. ~Now!~ Sendo cries out.

~Can you see me?~

~See is a relative term. I am nearly blind when not in a mortal. But I think I can.~

I pull out a jar from behind the pipe. I start to open it. ~No, don't open the jar. I have an idea. Now listen carefully, mortal...~

I was extremely freaked when Tyria's wings reflected the 'blades'. I smile as she finally reaches the safety of the house. Now all she has to do is find Death and she'll mold with that disgusting creature again.

Maybe after this is all over, we can teach Tyria to fight and then we can get rid of that symbiot once and for all!

Kissing her was really great, but the fact that she only did it to save my life is sobering, but she must have been _willing- to save my life, right?At least this way, I can be pretty sure that if I was the last man on Earth, she'd probably go out with me. I think.

I dodge to the left as a dagger like rope knicks my arm, not quite reaching blood. Ryo yells, "Hey, Sage, pay attention!"

"Man, he's really out in space!" Rowen yells as Cye runs past some coils to block Meiun's path to the house. She screeches in frustration.

"Hey, isn't that your job, Ro?"

"Arrow shock wave!" Doom dodges.

"Well, you didn't have to be pissy."

Ok, Sage, stop distracting yourself. You're the one who _never_ looses it in battle. Don't start now.

You're acting like a chika kissin' ya is the most amazing thing in the world. Tentacle headin' at Rowen's back. "Ro, behind...!"

Rowen spins and blocks it with his great golden bow. "Thanks, Sage."

This is bad, we're all ready getting tired by the sheer amount of tentacles, and Doom hasn't even broken a sweat!

Do black puddles sweat? "Guys, we have to finish this quick, she's wearing us out!"

Ryo traps a coil between his blades and manages to severe it. The piece lands on the ground and starts oozing towards Doom. Damn! Ryo gives me a frustrated look. "Sage, this isn't some Dynasty creep, it's Mia! We just have to hope Death can think of something."

"Ya..." Cye jumps outof the way of one coil while Kento blocks another with his Naginata. "And if ya hadn't noticed, she's about to kill us!"

Ryo winces. It hurts to have to do this to your friends but he doesn't have a choice. One of the bladed tentacles cuts through Cye's armor to his shoulder. "Mia, fight it if you can, we don't want to hurt you!"

"Ryo..."

"Guys, try and get closer, if we can. Pin her down. Maybe we can stop her until Tyria gets back!"

"Jussst trrry it, Rrronin Wimpsss. Yah!" Her coils with their pointed endings whip forward and cut through Kento's knee pads, but fortunaetly, doesn't get his flesh. One coil wraps around Rowen's leg. He falls to the ground hard.

"That's it, Iron...Rock..."

"Kento, stop it! You'll destroy the house!" Rowen yells, being slowly dragged closer to Doom/Mia.

"But..."

"Ah!" A tentacle wraps around Ryo's neck and starts to strangle him. I run over and cut it with my sword. BlackBlaze bites through the one holding Rowen's leg.

Mia screams her angre and concentrates her attack on me. The coils sink into my flesh in two or three places. Kento runs over and pulls me back, and Rowen defends us.

While Doom is distracted by me, Cye runs up from her side and tackles her roughly to the ground. Her arms and the bases of the coils are stuck beneath her torso. Ryo runs over to help hold down the thrashing body.

Suddenly, the last traces of Jiki fill in my wounds. They aren't healed, but they don't hurt and they don't bleed. They're sealed off, which means I can keep fighting. He'd really do anything to destroy his sisters. I'll have to get rid of what's left of him later.

I run over to Rowen. "Hey, Ro, you all right?"

"Yah, I'm fine, but did you check on yourself? Oh, and Cye. His shoulder doesn't look too great."

I turn around. Cye is still pinning Doom to the ground. "Cye, you all right?"

"Wanna check on my shoulder, _Docter_ Date? Hurts like Hell, and that's almost never a good sign."

"Kento, you help Ryo hold Doom down. I don't want Cye's shoulder getting messed up anymore than it all ready is."

"Sure, Sage."

In a few minutes of careful movements, Cye and Kento switch places.

"Let go of usss, Wildfirrre and HarrrdRrrock, orrr perrrish!"

"Doesn't look like you're in any position to make demands, symbiot." Kento brags.

"We're not, eh? Well, you could have fooled usss. Yah!" Kento and Ryo go flying into Cye and I. Cye yells out in pain.

Damn. They must've dislocated his shoulder. But he was still luckier than me. He only got hit by Ryo. I'm the one who had the bottomless pit land on me.

"How'd she do that?" Ro asks no one in particular.

"I don't know, but we gotta... gotta stop her!" No, Ryo isn't becoming forgetful, he just hesitated because Tyria walked out of the house carrying a large jar.

"Ssso afrrraid of yourrr chancesss that you'rrre loosssing yourrr nerrrve, Rrronin fool? Than let usss end thisss quickly!"

The sun glinted off of the jar, making it impossible to see the contents. She disappears from view behind Doom's/Mia's body.

"What isss behind usss, Rrronin whelp?!" One of the symbiotic cables wraps around Ryo's neck and pulls him forward until he's a foot and a half away from her. The coil tightens threateningly, then loosens a little so he can speak. "Tell usss orrr..." She screams an ear piercing scream and Ryo falls to the ground.

All her coils retract entirely and Mia falls to her knees. At least, I hope it's Mia.

Pieces of the broken glass jar fly, half cutting Mia and most of the rest hitting Ryo. Those that did not connect landing harmlessly on the ground.Suddenly, we all see what had been in the jar as Death's coils come form the puddle itself as she rests upon Mia's back. The coils dwelve into the cuts, making Mia scream out. There's a flash of black light and an inhuman scream comes from within Mia. Death, however, is nowhere to be seen. Mia looks up. She has one large, bleeding gash on her forehead and several other wounds from the glass fragments.

"Ryo!" Mia colapses into sobs on his shoulder. He wraps his armored arms around her in a comforting matter.

"Ok, now, someone explain what just happened."

"Ryo, my face hurt." Ryo powers down to his under-armor and chuckles softly.

I look at the swiftly darkening mark on Uli's cheek. "Aw, Uli, I feel like dirt...I mean..."

"It's ok Sage. I know it wasn't you. it was the sym, uh symbi, uh..."

"Symbiot."

"Yah! What Rowen said."

"Thanks Uli."

"Wow, just like a soap. Can you help with my arm now? It still hurts like Hell-o Uli..."

"Great cover-up, Cye!" Kento claps mockingly.

"Cover-up what?"

Hey, at least it worked."

Ok, well, that _Was_ supposed to be the last chapter, but... No. I still have that much again to write, so I'm splitting it up. Oh, god, I came back from Ottawa today, got home at four, watched toonami until 6:00, then watched a movie and I _still_ finished it. Then again, I'm one behind schedual again. Damn. Ta!

Tyria! (Luv' ya!)

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