Chapter 26: Creativity

Ace and Sakura are visibly crying at the sight of the other over countless years.

Terry: "You're Ace?"

Eric: "Sakura's older brother? Yes he is."

Sakura: "(crying) You're okay!"

Ace: "(crying) The feeling's mutual!"

The others feel completely left out.

Heather: "So uh... who's everyone here?"

Arin: "Alright, I'm Arin, he's Dan, that's Cody, Terry..."

The introductions and reunion are cut short when the sounds of metal being torn apart echoes around them.

Arin: "(panicking) Johnny, Emma, and Haley! Okay let's go!"

Lloyd: "(panicking) I'm Lloyd, he's Eric, Helen, Heather, Rex, Biscuit, and Rei! There!"

It's clear how much Lloyd and Arin get along.

Cody: "You guys can hug it out later!"

They both wipe away their tears.

Ace/ Sakura: "You're right."

They all look up to find Soldiers leaping down from the upper levels.

Helen: "Heads up!"

Helen and Terry send some attacks that send their heads flying off.

Rex: "Hey Dan! Lend us a hand!"

A few Soldiers touch the ground to be ensnared by shadows for Dan to turn them into a game of flaming pinball.

Rei: "Come on! We can't stay here!"

Emma and Lloyd smash several skulls in.

Johnny: "Looks like we've got to go up!"

They find the next set of stairs leading up.

Cody: "This way!"

They all hurry up the stairs and deeper into enemy territory.

Two hours later...

They've all gotten through the worst of it and are currently heading up the stairs to the roof.

Lloyd: "So that's that."

Haley: "We've all been on one hell of a roller coaster without knowing other people were."

They're almost at the door.

Arin: "Also now this fight got a whole lot easier."

Heather: "And you need to close your mouth for five minutes."

Arin: "(groaning) You guys too?"

Biscuit: "When there's a joke to be made, you'll make the joke."

They've arrived at the door.

Emma: "Let's go ahead and get this over with."

Ace opens the door to find nothing on the roof.

Sakura: "That's strange."

Everyone walks out with their weapons at the ready.

???: "Both halves have been joined by the hand of Symphony."

Creativity stands top the entrance to the roof, her blade at the ready.

Ace: "Humor, Love, Stupidity, Curiosity, Ignorance, and Tenacity are dead. Now who's joining them?"

Creativity: "Creativity, the strongest of the Seven Purgatorial Traits."

She jumps down and blocks the door.

Lloyd: "That's your former group name?"

Helen: "Y-You'll fall all the same!"

Rex: "You said it!"

She points her blade forward.

Creativity: "Then allow me to prove you wrong."

She dashes for Sakura, but Ace protects her.

Ace: "I won't let you lay a finger on her."

They repel each other.

Creativity: "Don't try playing the hero."

Lloyd gets a bullet lodged in her shin, but it doesn't go deep.

Lloyd: "That's why everyone is playing the hero!"

Terry and Rex swap places.

Cody: "Keep your distance!"

Rex: "We'll play the long game while you guys keep her busy!"

Lloyd, Helen and Dan get back.

Emma: "All you had to do was ask!"

Emma and Biscuit get right up in her face.

Rei: "We'll defend the others!"

Sakura: "Y-Yeah!"

Ace takes a deep breath as Creativity dodges both attacks.

Ace: "We'll finish her in a single strike."

Dan switches with Arin.

Dan: "Hit her where it hurts!"

Arin: "Trust me, I was planning it."

Arin sends a flaming fireball at her, but she turns it into a fiery baseball that goes flying off the edge of the building.

Creativity: "Really?"

Arin: "(squeaking) Help me..."

Lloyd and Helen get ready to strike.

Creativity: "Relying on these fighters to hit me?"

Biscuit and Emma are right behind her.

Heather: "We're not relying on anything."

Emma and Biscuit make direct attacks into her back that would sever a normal spine completely.

Haley: "Direct shot!"

She falls to the ground, but flips in the air and lands on her feet.

Creativity; "Not bad..."

Ace, Rei, Sakura, and Johnny know exactly how this is going to end.

Johnny: "Say the word."

Cody tosses the chakrams, but they're deflected back to him.

Terry: "She only leaves herself open when she's fighting against melee!"

Helen fires an arrow, but it's blocked by the blade.

Heather: "Aw come on! The blade didn't even break!"

Creativity: "My blade will never break."

She kicks and slashes Biscuit and Emma away.

Biscuit: "(in pain) That sword really stings!"

Ace and Sakura begin to smirk.

Ace/ Sakura: "(smirking) Now."

Creativity is surrounded by Sakura's Aura.

Creativity: "(dizzy) What the...?"

Ace rushes up to her as the air begins to cackle.

Rei: "Sakura!"

Ace sends a jolt of electricity through Creativity, causing her body to fall as he turns around and Sakura dashes towards them.

Ace/ Sakura: "Now!"

Ace rips a hole in her back as Sakura stabs her through the head, killing her instantly.

Terry: "Nice one!"

Her body turns into a Soul Coin, but reality isn't falling apart.

Haley: "Uh..."

Eric: "This isn't right..."

???; "We've been waiting for you."

Footsteps begin to echo behind them...

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