CHAPTER 10: PAYBACK

The sound of thunderous clashing and crashes made my eardrums vibrate erratically. I covered my ears as I saw the battle before me.

Levi had the "Bad" Solomon grabbed by the neck and threw him all over to the other side of the giant bubble. Within seconds, Levi jumped and was now above the still on air body and with a punch charged with energy, punched the other on the face, sending him downwards unto the solid ground.

Some of the resulting dust and debris got into my eyes. I coughed and teared myself out of their way. Just as I was out of the battle's reach, another of those tentacled giant monsters grabbed me.

The other Solomon, straightening himself up and now spitting blood, ordered the monsters in a strange language.

"Take her away! NOW!"

Just when, the monster's started moving, Levi's eyes became bloodshot and he swiftly moved and cut the tentacle which was holding me captive. I fell at tremendous speed.

"LEVI!"

I saw Levi's arms reaching to grab hold of me, but soon saw as he was blasted away, crashing unto a boulder.

I was about to smash, headfirst, unto the ground, but was soon straightened and held in the arms, of the bloodied up "Bad" Solomon. I could not move, because when Levi sliced off the creature's tentacle, its muscles tensed and remained that way, taking away the possibilities from freeing myself.

As I looked up at the other Solomon, I saw not pain, or anger, but an insanely wide grin, accompanied by devilish red amused eyes. I turned my eyes towards the standing and stumbling Levi, whose blood dripped unto the floor and stained his clothe. He was gritting his teeth and his eyes were that of a beast. He threw an inhumane roar, and before his filled energy hand came unto my captor's face, the other Solomon let me fall painfully unto the ground and evaded being hit, moving without hesitance downwards, and landing a punch on Levi's stomach. Levi coughed out blood and was soon getting held by one hand, raised up in the air and slammed backwards.

The other Solomon exclaimed.

"You are one hot headed freak! I was letting you hit me because I was feeling sorry for you and saw you as good game, but..."

Adding more strength unto Levi's neck,

"... Seriously, did you ever think I'd let you win against ME?!"

He punched Levi across the face.

It was all too much to bear. I couldn't do anything. Things were going out of hand and all so easily falling out of track.

I yelled with tears in my eyes,

"That... THAT's ENOUGH! STOP IT! If...If me it's what you want, the LET HIM LIVE AND TAKE ME! I DON'T CARE! JUST STOP HITTING LEVI!"

Levi's eyes glanced at me. Blood over one of his eyelids, and pooling under his head. If my eyes weren't playing games on me, a small smile formed on his lips.

As the other Solomon went into another of his crazy laughs. Levi worded out, without emitting any sound, something I caught notice, after the other punched one last time his face, making him bleed from his nose.

"I lo... ve..."

The tears fell now as I just slumped and screamed for the evil man to stop his merciless brutality.

The other Solomon took out from his robes a sack, opening it and with a snicker commented.

"Hmmm~ There's still some Borax left. I can actually use this left over to give you a special facial service..."

He slowly started to tilt the bag as speckles from the powder fell and landed with a sizzling sound on Levi's face.

Levi yelled.

"Ah...AAAAAH!"

The other Solomon chuckled.

"Freak, this is payback for that beat up you gave me..."

As my blurred vision cleared, my eyes went wide in shock as a shadow past beside me and in a matter of seconds the other Solomon was punched in the face with a bolt of energy, sending him far away and leaving a trail of the left powder midair.

A deep dark voice came out from the person whose figure was covered in a dense black cloud of crackling energy. Menacing red eyes looked towards the other Solomon's fallen figure.

"...And THIS is my payback from that time you took PITY on me, you bastard!"

Lucifer look towards me as he instructed someone that apparently had been behind me the whole time.

"Solomon, take her away."

I questioned,

"Wait, who...?"

As I turned and saw that the one that was dissolving with a spell the tensed-up tentacle and taking me into his grasp, was our Solomon; the "Good" Solomon, I could not forget the events that took place before, and went straight on and hugged his neck tight, as if my life depended on it; which in a manner of fact, it did at the moment.

Tears still steamed down my cheeks as I pleaded,

"Solomon! Please, Solomon, save Levi he... he is...!"

Lucifer jumped over the other Solomon's body, holding him strong by the neck; black energy building up in his gripping hand and eyes shining a menacing wild red.

Lucifer roared,

"SOLOMON! I'LL TAKE LEVI! NOW GO!"

With a worried look, Solomon screamed from where we were,

"But Lucifer, the portal will seal itself in just a minute once I pass through it! You won't make it!"

My eyes darted from the unconscious bloodied Levi on the floor, towards the aloof Solomon, then to the savage looking Lucifer, and then back again. I was starting to worry. What if Levi and Lucifer never get through the portal in time and they are trap underwater?

The other Solomon, lifter one of his arms and blasted a spell, making a hole on the bubble we were all in.

Lucifer screamed as he greeted his teeth.

"SOLOMOOOOOON!!!"

Solomon flinched and after throwing me a definite glance, which already answered all my unspoken doubts, he turned and ran for it towards the portal.

Lucifer slammed palms with the other Solomon's and both were thrown back towards opposite sides.

The explosion made the earth tremble. One of the tall rock formations that were above the portal started to crack.

Solomon had no time to lose. He went off towards it as fast as he could. The other Solomon whatsoever, noticed the almost to collapse rock and pointing a finger towards it, and screamed,

"DONHA!"

The water splashed as it rose to Solomon's knees. Concentrating his eyes to the falling rocks, he yelled,

"PARADZAI!"

The rocks disintegrated into dust that covered us in white.

I sneezed, and when I was about to look back towards the others, Solomon stopped abruptly in front of the portal. I looked up to him.

"Listen to me Pamy... I... I want you to know something..."

I waited for him to continue, while in the background another explosion and giant splash took fold.

Part of me didn't want to go but neither wanted to die. I didn't want any of us to die.

"I want you to know... That I'm sorry... All I ever wanted was for you... For you to look at me... For whom I was and am... I have made many mistakes and I am sorry... Can you forgive me...?"

Why did he have to tell me this now! From all of the time we've been and talked to each other, he chose the worst-case scenarios ever.

"Solomon why are..."

He interjected.

"DO YOU FORGIVE ME?!"

I exclaimed exasperated,

"I do! I do! I've already forgiven you, but..."

He concluded,

"Good. I'm sorry..."

Bewildered, I didn't understand until I was thrown into the portal and was immediately being twisted and stretched in a multicolored sparkled tunnel, at ungodly speed.

The next thing I knew, I was touching grass, and felt the cold wind of the night blow on my soaked figure.

Satan and Mammon exclaimed,

"Pamy?! Are you alright?!"

I nodded as I shivered away from the lakes edge.

For a tiny moment, I had forgotten everything that took place under the lake, until Belphie's voice inquired,

"Pamy... Where are... Levi and the others?"

My heart skipped a beat. My body started to tremble so much it even scared myself. I looked with wide open eyes towards the lake.

I felt sick and I could feel my breath falter.

I repeated in a whisper,

"They... They..."

FUN FACTS:

DONHA and PARADZAI come from the Shona and Bantu dialect, meaning "fall or to fall" and "disintegrate" respectively.

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