56. Pre - final

When Marcie woke up, the first thing she did was look around. She could feel the solid ground beneath her and the smell of burning around her. Her eyes looked at the crimson sky, full of soot and ash, which settled like snow in winter.

She slowly stood up and looked at her friends. They, too, began to wake up, lying next to her. They were lying next to each other like dolls wrapped in a new package. Arms by the sides, bodies lying straight, heads looking up.

(What happened?).

She looked around the neighborhood. Fragments of the castle that had soared into the sky were scattered everywhere. Here and there were pieces of different sizes lying around. She also smelled engine oil and blood. That disgusting bloody smell.

The last thing she remembered was her brother's fist rapidly approaching her face. How she begged him and how he talked about something with Andreas. After that, she lost consciousness. But she definitely remembered that she had a couple of broken bones. But now, it's all right.

"Where is Adam? Andreas? And the castle. He couldn't just disappear." Ann stood next to her

"I'm not sure about the two of them. But you're looking at the castle right now." – Sasha came last and pointed to the ruins

"Do you remember what happened? Who lost consciousness last? ". – Marcie asked, looking around

"I am." – Sasha stretched out her hand

"What do you remember? ". – Ann sat down on the nearest piece of the castle

"Adam and Andreas were talking." – Sasha sat down opposite and Marcie closed this triangle

"I couldn't make out everything, because I was in a semi-blackout, but I could still make out something. I remember exactly that they were fighting. Andreas shouted at Adam something like: "How dare you?! " or "You tricked me! "".

"I'm still shocked that Adam worked with Andreas. And also the fact that he beat us! ". - Ann was swinging her legs

"I'm not sure about the first one...". - Marcie shook her head

"....and here's the second one, we definitely deserved it."

"But not as much! He broke my jaw! Jaw! And I just wanted to talk." - Ann exclaimed from her seat

"That's probably why he broke it. She talked a lot." – Sasha grinned

Marcie just shook her head and stood up. Her friends followed her. They needed to find someone alive, preferably Adam.

They walked through the ruins of the castle and examined every stone. Smouldering cars were visible under some, amphibian corpses under others. After walking a few meters, they came to a small clearing.

Unlike other places, it was a place clean of debris. It was an empty and level clearing, in the middle of which stood a silhouette.

"Is that him? ". – Sasha looked at her friends

"Probably yes." - Ann nodded

"And what should we do? I don't want to fight him again," - Sasha asked

"Go and talk. I think this time he won't break our jaws like Ann."

Marcie grinned and went down first. She slipped through the rubble and walked slowly towards him. Ann and Sasha exchanged glances before catching up with her friend.

They were getting closer to Adam and stopped only when there were a few steps between them. They could only see his back and arms.

Adam stood and looked at the top, not paying attention to them. He was whispering softly to himself, rustling his palms. Sasha tried to hear what he was whispering but couldn't. Although she has recovered, her strength has not yet returned to her in full form.

Standing with his back to the girls, Adam looked at the sky and smiled.

"Let's get this over with, I want to get into a soft bed as soon as possible. Find this thing and let it out, I'm tired of waiting," - Adam whispered softly to himself

And although he couldn't see the Administrator's expression, he could clearly feel his anger. Initially, according to the script, the girls had to get the power of stones and personally defeat Andreas.

Adam, at that moment, had to leave the stage. But instead, Adam beat up the girls, blew up the castle with Andreas and broke his plot. The administrator is very angry, but he still has a trump card up his sleeve.

Adam silently waited for him to find and release his "ace", enduring the stares behind his back. And although he could continue to tolerate, but they were too annoying. So he decided to distract himself for a second and turn to them.

"You should have been sleeping like the dead. You woke up too early."

He turned to them and looked at them immorally. When they were falling, he put them in a safe place and injected some of his strength so that they would recover faster. But apparently he injected too much and they will recover faster than he expected.

"And what would have happened... if we had continued to sleep? ". – Marcie stared at him and squeezed her hands

He met her gaze, smiling slightly. There was guilt, concern, anger and betrayal in her gaze. The best bouquet he could only dream of.

"The finale". – he said, without lying

"The finale of what? ". – Sasha stepped forward

"Everything."

Their eyes met. Unlike Marcie, there were deeper emotions in Sasha's eyes. Affection, love, infatuation, resentment and guilt. A huge mountain of guilt, under which all her other emotions rest.

Adam looked at her, but he no longer felt the anger that he used to. He just sighed and raised his head to the sky.

"While you were sleeping, everything should have ended. And then, I would write a happy ending for everyone."

"What's in your mind, a happy ending? Tell us." - It was Ann's voice.

He didn't even want to meet her eyes. Even without looking, n could feel her eyes starting to water when she looked at him.

"It would be a wonderful ending...." – he stretched out his hand to the sun, which is slowly disappearing behind the horizon

He moved his hand slowly, as if drawing a picture of the future.

"A dream, all this would be a wonderful dream."

"More details". - Sasha 's eyes narrowed

"You suddenly wake up in your room. You don't understand how and why you ended up at home, trying to figure out the situation, you hear your mom calling you for breakfast. You, not understanding what is happening, go down to the first floor. You slowly walk into the dining room and sit down at the table...."

Marcie silently stopped the question bursting out of Ann's mouth. She shook her head and looked at Adam's face.

"…..to your surprise, parents behave calmly. You have breakfast with your family and then, out of the corner of your eye, you notice the calendar, June 17. You look at him in surprise, because not even one day has passed for the whole time. Afterwards, you meet up with your girlfriends and discover that they don't remember anything. All day you worry about what happened, but at the end of the day you understand."

Adam lowered his head and met their faces. His mouth lifted slightly, in the semblance of a smile.

"That all this was a dream. The next day you wake up and lead a normal life. Without life-and-death fights. Without anthropomorphic amphibians, prophecies, super abilities and....without the whole story."

"You mean without you." Marcie guessed right away, hearing a slight hitch in his voice

"... maybe." – he turned away from them and looked out for something

"And you don't want to ask our opinion?! Why the fuck are you even talking about this? " – Sasha began to boil

"I'm not interested in your opinion. You will be much better off without me, as I am without you." - his eyes narrowed

It's coming.

"So that's how you decided, huh? You have no right to choose for us! We ourselves know what we need and what we don't need! ". - Ann screamed

"You've always behaved like this! I didn't listen to anyone and acted as you decide is necessary! So I'll tell you straight. This time you don't have the right to vote.... Marcy pointed at him

"You can whine as much as you please, but I won't ask you." - Adam mentally reached for his power

"Once I'm completely done, I'll just use the power of the three stones and that's it. The weak have no words, I have decided everything for a long time..." – he touched his breast pocket, where there is an old photo

"….a long time ago."

"And we don't care about your cockroaches in your head! We won't let..."

"Shut up and take a couple of steps back, it's coming."

Adam interrupted Marcie. His eyes lit up with gold as the tricolor veins on his arms lit up.

"What's 'it'?" - Ann braced herself with a sword in her hand

"Remember the "darkness" from the prediction. So..."

[BAM!]

"That's her."

Before their eyes, a cloud of dust rose. In the distance from them, they could see something climbing out of the ruins. It easily got out from under the wreckage and quickly headed towards them, on its four claws.

It was something. A huge black sphere, flanked by four sharp claws. It was the size of a small house, and the width reached the neighbor's pool. But the most remarkable thing was what she had on her body.

Eyes. Dozens of scarlet eyes with orange vertical pupils. It was a car, but you could see such hatred in her eyes, then you could melt the whole Antarctic.

"What the fuck is this?! ". – Sasha stepped back slightly

"What you had to fight." - Adam looked at them for a second

"Darkness or the Core. A collective cluster of minds of all the past rulers of Amphibia and other worlds. As soon as the ruler began to die, his consciousness was loaded into this thing."

"This is creep! Especially those eyes on the body." - Ann shuddered slightly.

"So the core is our enemy? But why? " - Marcie asked him

"Because he needed the stones with the box. What did you listen to Andreas for? This is an interplanetary empire! And you were needed only to collect the stones. After you..." – Adam ran his hand over his throat

"But you disrupted his plans and now this thing is very evil." - Sasha snorted

"Are you dissatisfied with something?" - Adam turned to her

"Maybe I should put everything back in its place? To give you the stones, the core will kill you and begin to enslave the world, including ours, and the final. Do you want to? I can arrange it."

"No, no, I like it here too." – Sasha turned her head away and whistled

"That's great. You should lick my ass for interfering." - he snorted and turned away.

"Because who would have known what that bastard had prepared for you if I hadn't been there."

Adam took a stand. He stretched out his arms forward and moved his legs backwards. He looked like those karate guys who were preparing for a fight.

His eyes flashed bright gold as the veins on his arms began to radiate an iridescent color.

Soon the core was already very close to reach with its claws.

"AOAGAOAGDLA". – it screamed and hit

One of her claws went to Adam's head. He calmly shifted the weight of his body back and let her pass by him.

But he immediately grabbed this claw and covered his hands with a red aura.

[CLANGING]

He began to squeeze the metal around the claw. Slowly, layer by layer, he turned one place into a pancake, then calmly tore it up.

"AKDAJJANAKA! ". – The core screamed

While he was breaking one of its claws, it approached. It quickly fired two more pincers while he was busy breaking one.

"Adam! Caution! " – Marcie screamed from afar

When the claws were about to tear him to pieces, they were stopped by a barrier.

[CLANG!]

A purple barrier appeared around Adam. His eyes also changed their shade to purple.

He quickly threw the piece of claw aside and grabbed the other two. He pulled them inside the barrier, then squeezed them and began to break. Under the barrier, he also made heavier gravity so that the claws would not move.

"Minus two! "

His hands, covered with a purple aura, clenched the claws.

"ISAOTANGSAAOJSN! ".

The core screamed, trying to pull out its limbs. But gravity is such a bitch, it didn't let them do it. His claws flattened under the pressure, pressing them into the ground while Adam flattened them soft.

"SAGAHGAGNAN! ".

[BAM!]

Without three legs, the core had only one left, which did not allow its body to stay above the ground. It immediately fell and looked at Adam with all its eyes, mentally killing him.

He grinned and his eyes became the usual black color. He slowly approached the core.

"Adam, he's got another claw! ".

"I know! ". – he shouted without looking, Sasha

"But they're not stupid enough to get into a fight with a minimal chance of winning."

Adam stood in front of the core. He squatted down and looked straight into all of their eyes, openly grinning and mocking them.

"You understand that this battle is pointless." - he knocked on his body

"Winning won't bring you anything. Your last descendant is dead, I took care of laying a lot of explosives in the throne room. The box was destroyed, along with the stones. Your capital also lies in ruins around you." - he pointed back with his other hand

"GSIGJSNN….".

"That's enough." - Adam interrupted them with a frown

"Speak my language. Do you really think I'll believe that you don't know human? ".

"GGJSDGSJ…..Adam Wu...".

The core immediately stopped saying the nepotistic bullshit and pronounced his name, in a hoarse robotic voice.

"That's better. With whom do I have the honor to speak?" - He stood up and dusted himself off

"With the father of the one you killed and whose empire you destroyed." – eyes narrowed looking at him

"Oh, so you're Andreas' dad. As it was said there....the apple doesn't fall far from the apple tree."

"You don't understand what you've done." – The Core did not pay attention to his boorish behavior

"You don't know whose game you're in."

"Oh, just the opposite."

[BAM]

Adam quickly approached one of the eyes. He grabbed the Core body with both hands and began to cover them with a red aura, looking into their eyes.

"I know. Whose game you subscribed to. I know the whole script, from cover to cover, and I know who the screenwriter, director, prompter and everything else is." – his forehead collided with the glass of his eye

"That's why I violated the order of the game. I wasn't going to dance to his tune."

In the distance, Sasha eavesdropped with her power and passed them on to the rest of the girls. They didn't understand what they were talking about, continuing to listen.

"FOOL! YOU'RE YELLING AT US ALL TO DIE! ". – they shouted

"You, yes, us, no." - Adam's hands slowly tightened on his body

"I don't care about this world. Even if it burns with a blue flame, I won't care." He clenched his teeth

"I would have continued to play, I would have continued to follow the script, if this bastard hadn't crossed the line! ".

[BAM!]

His hands dug into the shell casing of the core.

"He had no right to threaten me with them! He dared to threaten me with them! THEM! ".

[CLANG!]

Under his pressure, his hands had already tightly entered the skin and reached the center of the core. He lifted his body above him and squeezed with all his strength.

"He has no right to even touch a hair on their heads! ".

[BAM!]

Adam continued to squeeze the core body. And although it had been disconnected for a long time and switched to another server, it calmed him down.

"So it's his fault. His fucking and dirty mouth."

[BAM]

Adam released the body with the core and it fell in front of him. He sighed with a calm soul and looked at the sky. The sun slowly disappeared, giving way to the moon and stars.

"Adam, is it all over? "

The girls came up to him and looked at the debris from the Core body. Their ears were slightly red from his words.

"No, it was only the first phase."

He sighed and sat down on the wreckage, tipping his head over. She was buzzing and hurting a lot.

(Damn, it seems it was not worth mixing Body and Emotions. I overdid it too much).

Adam surreptitiously wiped the blood from his nose and raised his head to them. He pointed to the sky, then smiled at the girls.

"And now, phase two begins. The final one."

The girls followed his finger and their eyes instantly opened. From the sky, the MOON was rushing rapidly towards them!

The moon turned purple and even from here you could see a lot of scarlet eyes on it. She descended from the sky and fell right on them. To flatten all Amphibians and inhabitants on them.

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! ".

The girls turned to Adam. He laughed looking at the sky and smiled wildly. He stood up and, crunching his bones, summoned the Force.

"Well....".

His whole body was covered with power. At first, it was gold, then green, blue and red. Each force covered him gradually, step by step. And when a four-color aura played on his body, a miracle happened.

All the colors started to mix. They began to mix with each other, as if they were in a palette.

And when they got mixed up, everything turned white.

Adam's body was covered by white light. A white aura began to surround his body. At first, his hair was completely dyed white. His skin, as well as his eyes, also turned white. His talo began to shake slightly, because three forces were tearing him apart from the inside.

His body lifted slightly in the air.

By default, yellow appeared on white. It was a small lumen of yellow that appeared on his stomach. At first, it was a small ball. But after..

[boom]

...he exploded. Yellow exploded into a multitude of lines that began to slide across his body. Arms, legs, torso, head, eyes. Yellow lines covered his body and reached his eyes, then stopped.

Adam slowly descended to the ground and opened his eyes.

His eyes were completely white. With a small yellow dot in the middle. He smiled at the stunned girls and put his hands in his pocket.

"Well...." his voice resonated in the air filled with Power

"….it's time to end this."

And he soared into the air.

It's time, the final chapter. Chapter. In which everything will end. Amphibians, the end will come.