Original Stories Fan Fiction ❯ Final Realm ❯ Chapter Four ( Chapter 4 )

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By: sonic_boom8780
Chase quickly runs after April! But a mysterious stranger appears! Who is this stranger and what does this stranger want with April!? Even more important, will Chase and April choose to side with the new resolution? Or will they ignore the cause?

Miscellaneous: Original Stories Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Adventure / Supernatural | Type: Shounen-ai | Uploaded On: 02.19.2009 | Pages: 5 | Words: 8.6K | Visits: 182 | Status: Work In Progress

Disclaimer: Every character, concept, setting, etc that is in this story was originally thought of by the authors Gerald and Merced Williams.
Writers Blog: Hello everyone! I just happened to be fidgeting around and just thought it would be cool to see how Final Realm looked in Japanese. This is the translated version: 最終çš̶ 2;ãªåˆ†é‡Ž
I just thought it'd be something cool to look at. ^^ Anyway I hope you're enjoying the series! As you can see the dramatic action is starting to unfold! I and Merced are working very hard to ensure that the drama intensifies! Things are going to geta lot more crazy in the next set of chapters so be prepared for anything! Again thanks for reading and stay tuned into your computer screen for the next chapter of Final Realm due in 2 weeks!
Chapter four:
Aneiras: You do realize what can happen don't you…? (Looks at Chase seriously) You can die…
Chase: … (Looks down) I don't care!
Aneiras: (looks up at Chase) …
Chase: (opens his window) I'd rather die than sit by and let my best friend die! (Jumps out the window)
Aneiras: …
(A crash is heard and a car alarm goes off)
Aneiras: (sighs and walks towards the window looking out) I don't know which is worse…Chase putting himself in danger of being killed or Chase jumping out of a third story window.
(Scene changes to Chase running down the streets in his pajamas)
Chase: Ngh! (grips his shoulder) well that's going to leave a mark… (Keeps running) no matter…April! I will save you!
Final Realm: Chapter 4
(The demon over April lets out a screech)
(April shivers in fear)
(The demon lunges a sharp claw at April)
(April screams)
(Suddenly an arrow flies from the across the room and nails the demons right arm to the wall beside April)
(April gasps with tears running down her face)
(The demon screeches in pain and tries to lunge it's left armed claw at April)
(Another arrow fizzes by and nails the demon's left arm to the wall)
(The demon again screeches loudly)
(April shivers more)
(The demon staggeringly moves its head and looks in April's eyes)
April: (shivers) N-No!
(Suddenly another arrow zooms and nails the demon's head to the wall instantly turning its body into ash)
(April covers her mouth with her hands as tears stream down her face)
(A voice speaks from across the room)
Female voice: Do not be afraid…
(April stops shivering and turns slowly towards the other side of the room)
(A shadow is seen holding a bow and arrow)
(April stares at the shadow with tears still streaming down her cheeks)
(The shadow slowly drops the bow to its side)
April: (stutters) W-who…are you?
Anastasia: My name…is Anastasia. And I… (Walks in the moonlight shone through April's window) am your guardian angel…
(April sees standing in the light a young woman in a pink robe with long red hair and green eyes. She wears an obi sash around her waist and pink strapped sandals on her feet)
Anastasia: Do not be afraid… (Sets her arrow in her quiver with the rest) I am only here to protect you.
April: (looks faintly at Anastasia and thinks) I don't know who she is…and yet…I feel…much safer now…
(Suddenly April's window burst open with glass)
(April screams)
Anastasia: (looks at the window) hm?
(A figure falls through the glass and lands on its feet)
(The figure lifts up its head)
Chase: April! April where are you!? Are you here!?
(April grabs Chase by the collar)
April: (screams) Chase! What do you think you're doing you idiot!?
Chase: Oh! (Lightly points his finger at April and smiles) There you are!
April: (jerks Chase around a little) you idiot! Where else would I be at 11:00 at night!? Eh? (Looks at Chase dripping blood on the floor from the glass) (Shakes Chase around violently) And you're bleeding on my floor too!? Chase, I'm gonna kill you!!
Chase: (being jerked around) _ ugh…April stop you're giving me motion sickness!
(Aneiras comes through the window)
(Anastasia looks over at Aneiras)
Anastasia: What are you doing here? I thought you were to take care of the boy.
Aneiras: (scratches his head and smiles) Well, I tried to stop him, but he was so persistent on coming.
Anastasia: (crosses arms) Aneiras, you're a high ranked angel and you expect me to believe that couldn't even stop a teenage boy?
Aneiras: (chuckles a little) like I said Anastasia, I tried but he sensed his friend in danger and rushed over here to save her. It seems his spiritual senses are already starting to take effect.
Anastasia: heh… (Smirks and looks over at April shaking Chase by the collar and thinks) Can this brat really be holding a significant amount of spiritual energy? (Closes eyes) And yet…I feel it too…His spiritual energy is clearly showing through yet I feel as if there's so much more of it being repressed! We need to perform a cleansing as soon as possible… (Looks over at April) for the both of them.
April: Uh… (Stops shaking Chase) Just…where did you get up here anyway?
Chase: (looks and points towards the window blankly) Uh…there…
(Screen shows the tree outside April's window)
April: (turns back towards Chase) (grins and closes her eyes) you just had to break the glass huh…? How am I supposed to explain this to my parents!?
Chase: (wide eyed and waves his hands) W-Wait! A-April! I-
(Screen shows Chase being thrown out the window and landing on a branch in between his legs)
Chase: Ah! (Tears stream down his face) So…much…pain… (Falls off the branch and hits the ground)
Aneiras: (sighs and puts his hand over his head) this really isn't his day…
Chapter 4: Part B
April: I'm not sure what to say…this is all too unreal.
Anastasia: (crosses arms) believe it or not what we are telling you is the truth. There is…another world out there. A force that can threaten the existence of your world, and if you want to save it you must believe in what we're telling you.
April: (looks down a little)… I believe you…
Chase: (looks over at April surprised) O.O A-April! C'mon, you can't be serious!?
April: …
Chase: ngh… (Turns away and looks at Anastasia and Aneiras) Just because we can see them doesn't mean that any of this is real.
April: (softly speaks) have you forgotten Chase…?
Chase: (turns around and looks at April) huh?
April: …the incident… (Keeps looking down) 4 years ago…?
Chase: (has a flashback of himself in the rain with the lifeless angel next to him) …
April: (keeps looking down) and that man…who was killed in that alley tonight…
(Screen changes to a flashback of the demon attacking the man in the alley with glowing red eyes and a blood stained mouth)
Chase: …
April: This force, this world that they speak of…It's not just some game or some fairytale…
Aneiras: …
Anastasia: …
April: (lifts up her head) this world…Is REAL!
Chase: A-April…
April: There's no doubt in my mind anymore…(walks over to Anastasia) and though…I'm not exactly sure what I'm getting myself into…but…if we have the power to stop these things from hurting innocent people…(turns and looks toward Chase with tears in her eyes) Why shouldn't we…?
Chase: ngh… (Looks down) …
April: (turns back towards Anastasia) … (eyes water with tears) I-I don't want to see anyone die anymore…! (Falls her head onto Anastasia's chest)
Anastasia: (runs her fingers through April's hair) there there. It's going to be okay…
(April sobs)
Chase: ngh… (Looks away) … (Looks down)
Aneiras: … (Walks over to Chase) something on your mind…?
Chase: …
Aneiras: (crosses arms) you know, I said something wrong earlier…
Chase: (looks up at Aneiras) huh?
Aneiras: Earlier…I mentioned that you didn't have a choice…that you had to do as I said…I was wrong about that…
Chase: …
Aneiras: You see…everyone has choices. And with each choice a consequence. Choices are what made up this world…and eventually what will decide its future. (Looks over at Chase) You have a choice Chase…the choice is yours and only yours to make…
Chase: (keeps looking down) …
Aneiras: just be aware of the people you affect while making these choices…and who you're doing them for…
Chase: …
Aneiras: It's always good to have someone to protect on your mind…
Chase: … (Looks up at Aneiras) huh…?
Aneiras: Do you have someone to protect…Chase?
(Chase looks over at April crying)
(April wipes away her tears to see Chase standing in front of her)
Chase: … (Holds out his hand) then let's do this April…together… (Smiles)
April: (smiles a little) Ch-Chase… (Grabs Chase's hand with both of hers) Yeah…let's…
Chase: (smiles and blushes) … (turns toward Aneiras and Anastasia) Hey you guys just aren't going to abandon us are you!?
Aneiras: (smiles and moves towards Chase and April) O-of course not! (Sets his hands on top of April and Chase's) (Turns and looks at Anastasia) Anastasia?
Anastasia: (sighs and moves toward the group) I really don't see the point in this… (Sets her hands on top of Aneiras', Chase's, and April's) But if it makes everyone feel better. (Smiles)
Aneiras: This bond that we've made… (Looks into everyone's faces) Let us promise never to break it no matter how hard things may get…
April: I promise…
Chase: I promise…
Anastasia: I promise…
Aneiras: I promise…
All: To never give up!
(Screen fades out)
(Scene changes to a classroom where a female is teaching the class)
Teacher: As you can see (writes John Milton's name on the board) John Milton, author of Paradise Lost illustrates symbolism by-
(Scene shows Chase and April soundly sleeping in class with their head laying on their arms)
(A boy and girl sitting in front of Chase and April turn around and look at them soundly sleeping)
Len: I wonder what's eating them.
Sherry: They must've had a rough night…
Len: (grins) doing what I suppose…?
Sherry: (slaps Len in the face) you pervert! April would never do something like that!
Len: (smoke comes from off of the red handprint on his face) well I'm just sayin' Chase is quite the ladies man!
(Sherry slaps Len again)
Len: …I'm going back to reading now… (Turns back around)
Sherry: (sighs) boys. So simple minded!
(Anastasia and Aneiras grin from across the room)
(Scene changes to the bell ringing for dismissal for school as the students walk through the wide double doors out into the streets of New York)
(Chase and April slowly walk out together)
Chase: (drowsy eyes) Man…what a night…or is it day? (Slumps his head over) I can't remember…
April: (drowsy eyes) you're telling me. All that sleep and I still don't feel rested from all that commotion last night. (Slumps over) And I still need to explain that window to my dad...
(Chase and April freeze and gasp)
Chase: (wide eyed with April) ngh! What the!?
(Standing a few feet in front of Chase and April in the midst of the crowd is a demon)
(The demon slowly turns and looks at April and Chase with bright glowing red eyes)
Chase: ngh! (Gets in front of April)
(The demon slowly walks in the midst of walking people towards Chase and April)
(Suddenly the demon disappears)
(April and Chase gasps)
Chase: what the!? Where'd it go!?
April: (hold her hand on Chase's shoulder) W-what's going on?
(Chase and April stand still as the seconds pass and the crowd slowly passes them by)
(April gulps)
(Suddenly the demon reappears in the air with an outstretched claw at Chase and April)
Chase: ngh! (Eyes widen)
(Aneiras suddenly appears and cuts the demon horizontally through the center of its body in the air turning it to ash)
Aneiras: (lands on the ground and grins) heh… (Puts his sword back in his sheath)
Chase: (glares at Aneiras and crosses arms) about time!
Anastasia: (walks up to Chase and April) we need to talk…
(Screen shows a couple of feet away Sherriff Johnson eyeing Chase and April in his police car)
Sherriff Johnson: … (Cuts on his car and drives away)
(Scene changes to Chase's bedroom with Chase, April, Anastasia, and Aneiras)
(Chase and April sit on the bed with Aneiras and Anastasia standing in front of them)
Chase: Okay…what's going on!? Disappearing and reappearing demons? What's up with that!?
Anastasia: It's not what's up with that…It's what's up with you.
Chase: (blinks) huh?
Anastasia: You both are still getting used to your spiritual energies. You're both warming up to the energy that has been inside of you since you were young. It's sort of like…breaking in a new pair of shoes.
Chase: (sweatdrops) since when do you know about fashion?
Anastasia: Hey! (Big chibi head) I've lived among you humans longer than you ever will so stop treating me like I'm stupid shorty!!
Chase: (sweatdrops with small chibi head) uh shorty…uh okay.
Anastasia: Anyway (crosses arms) the point is that this is totally new to your body. It's going to take some time for it to adjust.
April: but…how long will that take?
Aneiras: Well for a normal human it could take several years.
Chase: (screams) years!? We don't have time to wait for that long!
Anastasia: …and that's where the cleansing comes in…
Chase: (looks at Anastasia) eh?
Anastasia: …
April: cleansing? (Blinks) what is that?
Chase: (nudges Aneiras) is she talking about a bath or something? Because we humans already have that…
Anastasia: (sweatdrops) It's nothing like that. Cleansing is the process of purging the physical from the spiritual.
Chase: huh? What do you mean? Purging?
Anastasia: Right now and with most people the physical or flesh as we call it coincides with the spiritual, though in most cases the physical is the more dominant of the two. This is due to a curse placed long ago across the universe by the freer of the demonic realm known as Lucifer which put restrictions on the limits of using spiritual power.
Chase and April: L-Lucifer…?
Anastasia: The cleansing will help to break that curse and give you more control over your spiritual energy. It'll also help so that demons won't be able to track you down so easily by sensing out your spiritual energy.
April: oh…so that's how it was able to find us.
Anastasia: Correct. Currently at this state you guys could be tracked down by anyone the way your energy is spilling out without any control. You're practically a walking target for demons. And they will find you…unless you're able to control it.
Chase: hm…I see…
Anastasia: Performing the cleansing will help cut down the time of getting acquainted with your new spiritual energies and you can gain new abilities.
Chase: (blinks) Abilities?
Aneiras: (pulls out his sword from his sheath) Like this thing for example. Once you've gone through with the cleansing you'll be able to have your own spiritual weapon.
Chase: (big eyes) WHOAH! SO YOU MEAN I GET TO USE A SWORD LIKE THAT!!?
Aneiras: (puts his sword back in his sheath) It all depends. Weapons vary but the one you will get in the end will be just for you.
Chase: (shouts) Oh wow! How cool!! (Jumps up and down)
Anastasia: (looks at Chase seriously) don't go rejoicing just yet…
Chase: (stops jumping up and down) eh?
Anastasia: There is still a price to be paid…a prerequisite for all of this.
April: (looks at Anastasia) what do you mean?
Anastasia: With the passing of time this must come to all humans in order to be separated from the flesh…
Chase: ngh! Tell us already!!
Anastasia: You really want to know…?
Chase: (looks at Anastasia) …
April: (looks at Anastasia) …
Anastasia: The prerequisite… (Looks into April and Chase's eyes) Is DEATH!
(Chase and April's eyes widen)
To Be Continued…!
Next time: It all sounds too good to be true! Hidden powers and their very own spiritual weapons! Unfortunately there is a price to pay…the price of death! How far can this go? Is it really worth it? What will Chase and April's decision be and will they be able to complete the task that lies before them!? Find out in the next chapter of Final Realm!