Harry Osborn: Rebirth
Chapter 22 - Dreamwalk
Previous ChapterI felt paralysed. A heavy heart of mine dragged me down.
"Look who joined a party!" Green Goblin laughed loudly, pointing his horrifying whip at me. "Harry Osborne, the biggest mistake I have ever made."
I grinned. It wasn't a first time I met with my father as enemies. And I knew he was still trying to motivate me on the actions that cannot be forgiven or forgotten.
"The biggest mistake you made was that you came here today!" I replied taking a defence stance, feeling how Sunset shivered behind me. But if I was in Sunset's head, what was my father doing here?
Green Goblin seemed to read my thoughts. He loughed loudly.
"Loud mouth as always. Peter has a bad influence on you." He loughed again, before continuing his speech. "But you must be wondering what I am doing here. You see, the new girlfriend of your's was my ally. She was one of the most powerful of my subjects. And it's time I take her back." Father brought up his whip for a hit.
Sunset squeaked, covering her head as a tear ran down her eye.
I felt confused. How did it happen? How could someone as Sunset be a subject of such a horrible person as my father? It doesn't matter right now.
I conjured a shield spell, creating a sphere around Sunset. A loud bang of energy exploded from a shelf, as whip hit it. But it held. A long angry grin spread over his face. I have to take on my father.
Before dashing into battle, I used a spell, like the one Ziggy used before fighting with a Ferino.
It would take time for my weapons and suit to come, so I had to prolong a fight.
"No you don't." I told him strongly.
"Don't get into this, son." Norman backed a little. His huge green body with a horn was somewhat of transparent, but nether the less horrifying.
"You aren't taking her back. There is no way you will do anything bad until I am breathing." I felt rage. And strength.
Goblin growled. His whip shifted in form. It lost its flexibilit, shifting into a long sword.
"Then I'll have to make it stop." And with these words, Green Goblin threw onto me.
My armor came just in time. Th moment he was near me, my armor hit him in a head, completely dissorientating. In a flash, it was on me. The Last Dawn laid into my magic, vibrating softly. It changed its light to bright red. It's heat spread through the air, filling me with confidence.
"Time to put you down." I didn't recognise my voice as I said these words, but they passed confidence into me. After all, it's just Green Goblin. I almost beat him before. Now, I'm so much stronger. And this time I won't hesitate to take his life away.
My enemy growled. His eyes filled with poisonous gold color and his body shoke.
He was gaining power! It was my moment to strike.
Hit your opponent from the point they don't expect you to. Using my magic, I turned air around him into freezing fog. It gave me time.
With his hands, Goblin brushed it away, hissing. But I was no longer there. Using his weakness I buried underground. The usually hard ground now felt like water.
"Thermic vision!" I mentally screamed to Ziggy, but he was already passing it into my brain. Moment later, I looked at the point where my father was supposed to be.
Now, it was my moment to strike! I need to change the amount of force I apply on the rocks under me, so I could accelerate upwards.
I concentrated, lessening with magic amount of force I apply on the Rock under me. "Wait." Ziggy told me. "You are going to fast. Fast enough to go through rocks. You will go through Green Goblin and he won't feel a thing."
I thought for a second.
"Good boy." Ziggy wispered, before letting me do anything.
I didn't feel how fast I was going. Gradually, I went slower and slower, feeling how the rocks started painfully hurting me.
"Now!!" I screamed to myself, letting go of the ground.
Rocks cut and hurt me, but I accelerated upwards with an amazing speed.
Suddenly, I flew out right behind Norman.
He was slowly turning around, but at the speed I had, I simply dragged him on his back, breaking him into ground. Do not lose momentum. Slight push upwards with my wings for extra height before crushing on the my father's body and burying it deeper under rocks debris. I heard his chest crack, I felt his heart beat. It was so slow… I was going so fast, I didn't give him a second. And it was right thing to do.
A swift sound reached my ear. The Last Dawn froze in mid air right front of me.
"Good bye, monster." I spoke, as a sword went right into the what used to be Norman's face. Now it was just a broken carkas of the monster he became.
My sword made no sound at first. Moment after, it started hissing as the blood from it burned and evaporated. Lifeless body laid under me. I switched off my second thermo vision. Green Goblin's face was just a troll's ugly dace with a short burned through hole.
I felt nothing. Slowly turned around and watched where Sunset had to be. She laid there, inside a fading sphere, her eyes slightly open and a tear trace on the sides. In her hooves laid something.
I rushed to her, my heart slowly dying.
"No.. not again. No. Look at me Sunset. STAY WITH ME!!!" I shoke her lifeless body knowing she was gone. I touched her head with mine and my sight fell on something she was holding. I couldn't believe it. It was a little girl! Little human girl! Her bright orange hair and deep hazel green eyes were so much like Sunset's.
"God…" an understanding finaly came to me.
It was my daughter. I took her into my hands. My form shifted. I was a human again. I held a little girl in my hands, ready to sacrifice anything for her.
Slowly, she started crying.
"Hey. . . Hush now. It's alright. Daddy's here." I tried to calm her down, but she cried louder and louder.
"You lost, monster." Goblin's head hissed into my ear before jumping into the fire his body was in.
My daughter twitched and froze, little blood trace running down her cheek.
"Nononono. .. NONONONO! !!" I screamed, falling down my knees.
How… why?
My soul felt like falling apart. Everything around me turned black and dark. The only thing giving light off was the dead child in my arms… my child... my little girl! That I failed to save. "You lost. Monster…"
That I didn't attempt to save, chasing after my revenge! "You lost. Monster…"
That… that…
"Stop." A loud voice echoed through the space I found myself in. "You are in my Kingdom, Norman. And it's time for you to leave."
Luna's figure rose behind me. I felt her and that feeling spread some sort of calm through my chest.
My eyes started gleaming slightly. The light tickled them from inside. I looked at my child again, but it was no longer there. Just ashes.
A shadow fell over me. A sound of metal clang against metal reached my ears. Slowly, I lifted my eyes up. Luna stood her back to me, her sword holding a long whiplike sword of Norman's, which was held by a huge, three floor building high shadow figure.
A light erupted from Luna's weapon, beaming onto shadow, as it screaming faded into the darkness it came from.
"Stay there. Or you will regret you ever returned." Luna spoke, swinging her bright silver gleaming weapon before turning back to me. A heavy smile fell on her lips, as she nodded her head. "Got your back, baby boy."
A light warm hoof touched my shoulder, before shifting onto my eyes and falling over them with both hooves.
"Guess who's there?" A voice I never thought I'd hear again. A hurricane of emotions flew through my heart, bringing broken pieces back together.
Tears, like waterfall washed through my tired eyes. She couldn't…
I turned around in a flash. The deep green eyes… the ones that saved me again.
"God… ughh." I threw myself into Sunset's hooves, burying my wet face into her warm, soft chest, hearing every beat of her heart. It was like music that washed over and over again through me, calming my brought together heart.
"Hey there boy..." Her voice like young spring's river flowed into my ears, bringing calm to my torn brain.
The minutes passed as we stood still, enjoying each other.
"I know you are a love couple and everything but we need to leave this dream." Luna spoke firmly. "Or we might stay here forever."
Me and Sunset nodded, without breaking a gaze from each other's eyes. A big swirl of energy emitting from Luna's horn shifted into a portal which led back out into the world of livers.
I let Sunset pass first and I wanted Luna to pass next, but she simply threw me in with her magic before jumping in after me.
A short twist of energies shook my head around as I fell onto the hard concrete floor. It seems to be the castle's private chambers where I never was.
Luna calmly exited the portal with her usual royal manner. She looked at me and Sunset like mother who looks on children after they broke something. With a sigh she started speaking.
"Looks like the old bastard is back."
"Didn't we defeat him?" I asked, but then remember the stuff I saw and felt in dream. He couldn't be dead. It also was just a world of dreams.
"Doesn't look like it. But today's… tonight's encounter with him gave us a lot of time." She smiled slightly.
Suddenly, a door burst open and a bright blue bird with silver feather endings flew in.
"What is…" Luna didn't finish her sentence as a bird landed on her should and quietly… whispered?
"This is phoenix. Luna's phoenix. They can speak, whisper and use magic." Ziggy spoke like a Wikipedia, but I gazed at the bird in astonishment.
"I want one too…" I told him like a little kid.
"Well… you don't choose phoenix. Phoenix chooses you. And it doesn't happen very often."
"How often?" I tried to get some hope of getting a bird like that.
"Once a thousand years. Maybe even once in five thousand." Ziggy laughingly broke all my hope about getting a phoenix. I almost cried, but Luna's face changed drastically.
Her eyes filled with pain and sadness.
"What happened?" Sunset spoke for the first time since coming from a dream.
"Midnight... Blossom is… she's… dead."
