Chapter 11: Shattered

"You're not staying alive, dammit!" Salty Sol hissed and Scarlet gasped as an orb shot towards him again. He jumped out of the way and Melty Luna smirked, "This time, we're taking it and breaking it. I was hoping it'd hit the ground earlier and shatter."

Scarlet growled, "Why?! Why do you hate me so much?!"

"Easy, we hate you. We want Gora-san, now say goodbye to your friends while we take your crystal for a third and final time!"

Scarlet froze and screamed as an orb was thrown to him and he was flung back as it hit his chest. He tried to hold back a scream but his mind failed him and Perlite screamed at the twins to stop it.

The twins held it up and laughed, "We can kill him for good now!"

As they said this, Gora's crystal began to shine. They gasped out as Gora stood there, his crystal disappearing.

"Gora-san!" Cerulean gasped and Gora frowned, "You two...please, my brother has suffered enough."

"N-no!" Salty Sol cried and stared at Scarlet's crystal, "Aki...we must get rid of it now!"

"Yes!"

Scarlet's hand weakly moved up. "Ple-please...I...I want to help!"

"Use its power my twins-dacha!"

"Yes, Dadacha!"

"Wait!" Gora gasped and they both smirked, eyes dark.

Cerulean growled, "He's controlling them...!"

Gora nodded, "Yes, they would have given up already..."

Dadacha laughed and Scarlet groaned as he felt his eyes slowly close.

Dadacha turned to Aurite, "Give up, you and your Battle Lovers are ending."

"Today..." The twins spoke
"is your final day alive."

Gora held onto Scarlet and Argent gasped as Dadacha hissed, "Destroy it, we mustn't let him live-dacha!"

Scarlet's eyes popped open as he heard that and cried out, "N-no!"

"Too late..." Salty Sol smirked, and Scarlet screamed as he watched his crystal being thrown onto the ground. The light left his eyes and he fell back as it shattered, and Vesta screamed as tears filled his eyes, "Yu-Yumoto!"

Gora turned to the twins, "You two..."

"Gora-san, we had to..." Melty Luna spoke, "Now...we must get rid of the others..."

"No." Gora frowned, and the others ran to the shattered crystal.

Epinard was picking up the pieces as Perlite bent down and looked at Gora, "Please, go talk some sense into them! We can take care of Yumoto!"

Gora frowned, "Are you sure?"

"Yes!" Perlite cried and Gora nodded as he slowly let Aurite lay Scarlet's head in his lap.

Argent stroked the boy's bangs and slowly made his eyes shut.

"He's pale..." Aurite whispered, "They must hurry and fix the crystal."

Perlite nodded and frowned as Cerulean asked, "How do we fix it?"

"Can love fix it?" Sulfur questioned, and Vesta frowned, "Now you sound like Wombat."

"Yes, but don't we want him back?"

"Of course, Io!" Vesta groaned and the twins gasped as Gora walked to them, "Both of you, it'll be okay, just stop hurting Yumoto, you two changed."

"Yes! But we want you still!" Salty Sol cried and Gora placed a hand on his shoulder, "Haruhiko, don't worry."

"I...I will worry, Gora-san!" the younger twin frowned, "Dadacha told us what'll happen!"

"Yeah!" Melty Luna agreed and Gora sighed, "No, he's lying to you both."

"No! He said that Yumoto will take us away from you!"

"What? He would never, he enjoys you two!" Gora explained and the twins gasped as their eyes began to go back to normal.

Dadacha gasped, "No-dacha!"

He looked up, "An-chan, we need plan two!"

"Oh no..." Aurite gasped and Zundar appeared. The green hedgehog smirked, "That brat is finally going to get out of our hair-da!"

"Silence!" Aurite hissed and Vesta hissed, "Dammit! We're missing a piece!"

Zundar smirked and Perlite cried, "He has it...! It's a small shard, but he has it!"

Argent growled and shot his chains off and Zundar cried out as he was trapped.

"Damn you." Argent hissed and grabbed it. He began to walk to Vesta but Dadacha flew down and grabbed the shard from him.

"You'll never bring him back-dacha! He's annoying!"

"SO!?" Vesta screamed, "We love him!"

"We don't care!" Salty Sol smirked, "He has blinded you all...Dadacha has told us the truth."

"No! He's lied to you!" Epinard hissed, "Why would Gora-san ever like you both after you'd kill Yumoto!" He pulled his love stick out, "Epinard Love Hurricane!"

The twins screamed as they were hit and Epinard held back tears, "You both, give up!"

"Why?" Melty Luna smiled, "We, the VEPPer, are stronger and you have failed."

"Enough!" Aurite hissed, "Dadacha has you under his control! You both didn't want to hurt him after you were redeemed!"

Melty Luna froze and he looked down, "Wait..."

"Aki, don't think about it! They're lying to us!"

"Why would we be lying!?" Cerulean hissed, "You all know we love him, and you two were okay with him!"

Salty Sol held his hair in his hands and hissed in pain, "N-no!"

Melty Luna hissed in pain as well, "D-Dadacha...!"

Dadacha smirked as he held the shard of the crystal up. He looked at himself in the shard, "How pretty-dacha...too bad he'll never come back."

The twins screamed out in pain as they were flung back by an unseen force and Dadacha hissed, "How ungrateful you two are..."

Salty Sol looked at him with his red eyes, "You...you tricked us!"

"I may have-dacha."

Melty Luna hissed as he stood up, "You...we should have known! Making us take Gora-san's crystal...!"

Zundar smirked, "You both are idiots, and were easy to trick-da!"

"Enough!" Vesta hissed, "You killed Yumoto! Not the Beppu Brothers!"

"Yeah!" Sulfur nodded, "You killed him, Zundar..."

"And Dadacha." Epinard growled, "You shattered the crystal of the boy we love most!"

"And you hurt Wombat." Cerulean growled and stood up.

Epinard held the crystal shards out, "We must fix this!"


Dadacha smirked and flew down and grabbed the shards quickly. "Too late-dacha!"

He landed on Scarlet and laughed, "What a dumb boy-dacha. Thinking he could save the world..."

Zundar laughed as Aurite tried to grab the shards, "Caerula Adamas...you thought you'd win."


"We will!" Aurite hissed and the two aliens jumped up and landed on top of a monster that appeared, "Now, kill them all-da!"

Aurite froze as he looked at the boy in his lap. "What do we do with Hakone-san?!"

He gasped as Scarlet disappeared and Zundar smirked, "Battle Lover Scarlet is hidden away now...our monster has trapped his body and his broken crystal is hidden with him."

"Damn you both!" Aurite hissed and ran forward and attacked the monster. The twins clung to one another and Salty Sol whispered, "Aki...we must go find him!"

Melty Luna nodded, "Yes, Haru...we must hurry and fix what we have done!" the VEPPer eyed one another and then the monster and ran out of the room.

Gora watched them and the Caerula Adamas and Battle Lovers began to fight the new monster.