The disclosure of the truth about Charlotte and Edwin was astonishing for the rest of the Spirits. Even, it became difficult for the team to focus on their objective and their mind misled themselves to Ramesh and his death; how it was pre-planned and leaving the Maniac case in Australia wasn't an accurate decision and Oliver thought he was successful in his plan! He distracted the team at the final moment and it was enough for him to lead the fight.
Meanwhile, the captive people had started the fight against the SPIRITS. Police remained in the grey area. Though they surrounded the whole circle, it became difficult for them to handle the whole situation! David helped them with this task. He hypnotized the Cygnian citizenry to fight against whosoever came in their way. That made the tasks for the troops difficult as they didn't know who was on whose side.
Hundreds of bodies were lying around the field with too many more either falling on them or even trampling them from the deepest desires of their heart to, at least, save themselves without caring about the surrounding environment.
This night was dark and ghostly suspenseful. The voice of screams and pains entangled themselves between the silence of the unending dismality all around. The whole world was attacked by Oliver and he tried to conquer every place but the genocide in London was uncomparable. The only way to stop all this was to either kill Oliver or take him under control. Once a king loses the army surrenders then.
The fight went on in the main circle and dreadful punches had become a common part of everyone's fight. Robert's body lied dead and Peter was satisfied with it.
After hypnotizing at least half the population at one side, David brought Sapna with him in the centre of the circle and then ran to save Valencia who was being surrounded by many assassins who meant much harm to her. Though she knocked and finished uncountable people, there were too many to handle and she needed support. David filled that vacancy and started hypnotizing the people surrounding Valencia. She took a sigh of boon and then tried to rush with David to the main centre of the circle.
With the whole team of THE SPIRITS surrounding Oliver, Harry was quite relaxed to see him winning.
"This is unfair, Harry. So many against one?", Oliver blackmailed.
"This isn't, Oliver. Didn't you bring your army with the intention to surround me and Peter, right? Was that fair?", Harry responded.
"But that didn't happen..."
"Plans sometimes never work out. And also, you have one demeanour extra, the hard-work demeanour and then you have Charlotte with the Crown Of Powers. You aren't one", Harry exclaimed.
After listening to all this, Edwin also rushed to the centre of the circle to give his master some support!
"That vacancy of demeanours fills with father! He has all"
"That isn't true, son", Ralph broke in, "I am not actively participating in the war and even if this was the fight only about demeanours, then you lead. Harry's right. You shouldn't beg!"
"Have it your way, father!"
Oliver's main intention was to only distract the team with his talks and blackmail them. After this sentence that he spoke, he suddenly ordered Charlotte and Edwin to attack them. Peter and Harry went together. Sapna and Valencia trying to unite women empowerment in this fight took the lead against Charlotte. Charlotte had the Powers of the Crown and she was much better in fighting than Sapna and Valencia.
David went against Edwin and Ralph took a close look at everyone's fight. Behind all this, a lot of people were dying every second without even thinking who they are fighting with. The surreal fight went on and on. It was about four in the morning and the fight had been going on for more than 4 hours.
In these long hours, Oliver lost his patience and his restless behaviour being depicted because he didn't mean the fight to go on for so long. Abruptly, he thought as a final move, did a laser blast from his eyes with scarlet beaming blast heading towards Harry and in full swing to kill him this time with the explosion. Harry, unable to dodge this one, was not able to move in the fast time of a microsecond.
The lasers were mostly two beams of scarlet light passed from each eye towards the enemy. Peter, who stood beside Harry with the reflexes as fast as Ramesh's and his conductivity of hands and body, came in the way of the blast defending it from his hands. His hands conducting the over-powered heat through his body to the earth. Harry saw this type of power only once in his life and that was when Ramesh used it in the United Nations meeting to save the Secretary-General.
"Ramesh! That's what Ramesh did in the UN Meeting!", Harry exclaimed with a lot of expressions that he loaded on his chest.
"I have those, Harry!"
"Don't tell me, Peter, you, too, did what we did to Sapna", Harry stopped the fight to know the truth. Even Oliver wanted to know how was Peter eligible to stop his strongest blast!
"Harry, I had taken two vials of blood out from Ramesh's body."
"And you didn't tell me?"
"I meant to tell you. But my intention was never to harm."
"Why did you even think of it?", Oliver broke in while he gave a bizarre look to Charlotte in the means that she didn't inform anyone about it. She, too, was unknown.
"As from my perspective, I didn't believe that Sapna could fill up that demeanour for you! She did or not I don't know", Peter spoke to Harry while Oliver carefully listened, "So, I felt that telling you would descend my impression in front of you that I didn't support your decision to give Sapna the vial of blood."
"Peter, really?", Harry spoke eerily to Peter with his morose face, "I made the Spirits with the announcement that this family of mine will limit my powers. And you didn't even understand yourself that capable to tell me your perspective. This camaraderie between us wasn't enforced, Peter... Not only you but everyone in our comradeship was allowed to speak freely. Not only comradeship but also in the whole SPIRITS office, everyone was allowed to speak freely. But which I feel sorry for that none in that office supported me. BPTD and Edwin!"
At this instance, Peter winked at Ralph who probably knew what was it for! Peter counter-attacked Oliver with his own weapon; the weapon of distraction. Ralph, then, whacked Oliver with his iron arm. Which gave depressed Harry some time. Peter came near him and then looked at him with the most brilliant face one could make to bring the other one out of grief, "Harry, that wasn't the truth, man"
"You claimed it yourself, just now!", Harry said.
"I know I did. But I used Oliver's weapon against him. He's been distracting us from so many things!"
"I am a bit confused. Did you inject that vial in you or not?"
"I, obviously, did, Harry! But not for the reason I told. I knew that if I claim that in THE SPIRITS, someone who is betraying us will report this too to Oliver. If I would have told that in our team, then Charlotte would've told everything to Oliver... Everything!"
"So?"
"I became a surprise element for him. He was being impatient from so much time... And now when he knows about my truth, he is in anger and will take some wrong step. I assure you that... He isn't qualified for that. To control his anger is a hell of a task for him! I distracted him for good now... And how can you even think of what you did?"
"Peter", Harry said brightly, "Peter, I am so proud of you! You've proved why you are eligible for the smartness demeanour! Hats-off man! And because of this reason, you were so muscular the very next day you fainted in the deathroom, weren't you? "
"Yeah!! And should I add I fainted because of the reactions of the satellite cells! You never found the injection because it got hidden under the shield!"
"Understood!"
Peter gave Harry a hand and then went to provide Ralph some support. As expected, Oliver in anger, lost all his control over his mind. In this dire strait of his mind, his face that was delineating the extreme anger it could, looked again at Charlotte and this time at Edwin, too. In their eye-contact, he made them clear to end their respective enemies the same moment.
They both were well-aware of their king's wrath. They, therefore, lost all control over their mind and then came in the pressure to end this fight. This was their mistake and THE SPIRITS took the lead in the fight!
Also, police people were fighting with their deepest desires to stay alive. Though many sacrificed their lives against the fake SPIRITS (BPTD), they didn't stop fighting and reinforcements were sent regularly from different states as the fight went for hours.
"See, Oliver, that's your problem...", Peter was still distracting Oliver and Oliver was becoming more and more vulnerable in the fight.
"And what is that?"
"Oliver, you never understood that Maniac caused us no harm!"
"It did cause mental imbalances and you lost a demeanour, too!"
"That united us all against you!... That surely did and I expect there's no greater demeanour than the unity of a team! And especially if its the talk of THE SPIRITS.", said Harry.
Oliver and Harry were not fighting while they talked this time. This was a fight between words and the topic of Maniac rose again.
Meanwhile, David, Sapna and Valencia were becoming tired of fighting Edwin and Charlotte.
David though was a Cygnian, yet Edwin seemed to have learnt the basics of dodging the extra-ordinary skills of hypnotism that David had. For Sapna and Valencia, the fight was with a Cygnian who was gifted with the Crown of Powers long ago and was a master in manipulating minds.
A talk between them rose too when Valencia exclaimed, "That's astonishing Charlotte! You did act very well... The acting of representing yourself as my best friend!"
In between, Sapna got confused and asked Charlotte interrupting Valencia while the fight did not stop. Their punches and defends were all through the same within the talks, "Charlotte, how'd you get in the organisation? As the assistant of Valencia?"
"Ramesh asked me the same question on his last night in his deathroom", Charlotte replied arrogantly, "Maybe the history is to repeat itself! For you... Maybe it's your last night and I think I should clear your doubts so that you don't die in suspense... The Cygnian Crown of Powers gives the power to manipulate minds easily some or the other time in their lives. To do that, the individual has to close his fist and then the person in front would be manipulated!"
"That's how you entered the organisation and as an assistant of Valencia so that you can take control of her?"
"Basically yes but the plan failed and ended up with the death of Ramesh!"
"And if the minds could be manipulated so easily then why didn't you directly hypnotize us?", Valencia asked.
"I tried but I failed. It is unclear why... But master Oliver used it once when he was a child to manipulate the principal of a school to admit the twins and Rogers in it! After that, he was not able to use it! Maybe it can be used only once"
"So you mean Harry didn't ever use it, did he?"
"Yeah! Oliver would have told me if he'd ever used it...", Charlotte got into the flow of talks when her mind was busy in fighting while she understood she shouldn't have said that, "I shouldn't have said that, should I?"
"So, Harry still has that manipulation power?", Sapna asked furiously.
"Sorry, I can't tell that", Charlotte spluttered and she made the worst excuse anyone can make in this situation.
Their fight had come to a halt for a couple of moments in which the three of them settled their breaths and then again with full force, they came forward to fight in the same manner again. This same moment, impatient Oliver again looked at Charlotte which again pressurised that woman. Because of all this incessant tension, Charlotte lost her concentration from the fight. Valencia stole this moment to enhance it. She whacked Charlotte on the tip of her nose that led to nose-bleeding.
Wounded Charlotte's appalling condition was becoming graver. Inspite of the serious wound, she stood, but was not able to control her senses because of the lack of oxygen in her body. Valencia and Sapna did not make the situation graver for her. The bleeding of the nose was not stopping. Sapna and Valencia watched all this silently without interference or more punches and attacks. They knew that the bleeding nose of Charlotte would take her to the door of death and she would succumb to her injuries.
Charlotte pleased to sit with some support for her back. There was no stone or something like that which could help her in her last moments except the metallic logo of the SPIRITS. At the left corner area of that logo, Charlotte sat with her legs folded and in a comfortable manner. She took a sigh and then it seemed that the exhalation of the sigh was the last one she would ever make.
Sapna and Valencia experienced her death which brought Valencia a bit of grief but that was counter-questioned by the death of Ramesh. Though Charlotte was the real MANIAC and the murderer of Ramesh, she was the best friend of Valencia before everyone knew this truth.
Meanwhile, David was busy with Edwin who gave him a good fight. David's main objective was to hypnotize him but that seemed a bit difficult. Edwin easily dodged his tricks and in return, counter-attacked them. David's concentration was dissolved in Edwin's dodge and that made Edwin lead the fight between them.
At this instance, David understood that he won't stand a chance in front of Edwin like this. He understood that to finish Edwin, he had to duel with him without any powers. Edwin though was a BPTD member, but to stand a chance in front of a Cygnian was a challenge for him too. David was not bad in his fighting skills and also he had the concentration demeanour which would make him concentrate a lot better than Edwin.
The moment David decided to duel, Edwin understood the same from his body gestures.
"You wanna duel?", Edwin spoke arrogantly.
"After your bloody betrayal, yes!", David replied.
"Hmm...Gotcha! But this is unfair. You're a Cygnian and I am just a man with ordinary looks and nothing else!"
"Was that fair when Ramesh had to fight Charlotte? She was a Cygnian, too, wasn't she? But her deeds paid off! See her body lying there. You can never break the parts of a soul and the members of THE SPIRITS are the part of the same soul and that soul lies in Harry!", David has seen Charlotte's body and was getting a bit emotional, "The same you will face"
Edwin got frightened but didn't lose his momentum. Dodging David's hypnotism was easy for him but not his punches.
David, with full confidence, ran towards him with his punch to execute its motive. But David became overconfident of this hand-to-hand duel. His overconfidence became a reason Edwin dodged David easily and punched David with his full force. It made David understand the potential of BPTD members.
Edwin though knew his life's end was near and he won't stand a chance against him, tried his best. And what he feared happened in real; the next time David didn't lose his concentration or he didn't transform his confidence into overconfidence. He pummeled Edwin in his stomach with his full force.
The punch was so forceful that a lot of blood-containing saliva had escaped his mouth! David didn't stop and Edwin had gone dreadful. A moment came when he begged for life and David didn't provide him one for the crimes he had committed.
Then, David dragged the stupor and dreadful body through the battlefield and kept it near Charlotte. The senses Edwin had got left after the hazardous duel (for him) executed that David had brought his body near Charlotte to provide him with the fear of dying. David, then, just left the body near Charlotte and on the right corner of the metallic logo of THE SPIRITS.
"It's your last breath, Edwin? How you feel", David taunted at his condition.
Edwin, too, took a sigh and with all the energy he could accumulate was thrown in some words that he spoke.
Oliverus et vivat BPTD
These words seemed like some other language but David was clear with the fact that Edwin had spoken the NEDNASTIAN Language and was well-aware with his feelings and sentiments. David thought that he probably would have said, "Long Live Oliver and BPTD"
Sapna, Valencia and David marched on towards Harry now after they all had finished their given jobs.
Edwin and Charlotte had left the mortal world for good and that credit should also go to Peter, who made Oliver impatient, and that resulted in pressurising the couple of traitors and eventually leading to their death.
Harry, Peter, Ralph and Oliver were, as usual, fighting and disclosing some secrets that either of them is unaware! Oliver had noticed his followers' death (Edwin and Charlotte) but he fought vigorously and it didn't seem he had any effect of their death.
It was now about seven in the morning. Hours were passing rapidly and the rise of the sun was in process. Birds had started chirping all around but the voice was quite slower and with low frequency as always. They also understood the genocide and the dead bodies of so many people and maybe they were showing their contempt by their melancholic chirps.
Meanwhile, Oliver noticed the rest of the team approaching Harry, he understood that his failure in the ultimate showdown was obvious and there was no way to flee. He, then, was left with one option. He murmured something in his mouth and then just a portal opened. Oliver rapidly went in and no one other was capable to stop him now. He opened the portal for a single man and when Harry tried to step in, his leg experienced an electric current that prevented him from entering the portal.
"He fleed at the last moment... We were an inch from triumph!", Harry roared.
"Harry, you got to listen to me right now... I have a piece of big news", Valencia exclaimed out of the blue.
"What is it, Val?"
"You still have the manipulation power! In your past, Oliver once closed his fist and then manipulated a principal that got you admitted in that school!"
"How'd you know that? I have seen this in a dream! But the difference is, I was the one who closed his fist rather Oliver!"
"No! Charlotte claimed it herself. She used this to become my friend! It can be used only once!"
"It's better not to rely on a dream! When he comes back, I'll use my power!"
"But son---", Ralph interuppted.
"Father, I know this is out of rules but we'll have to do this for everyone's good!"
"It's not in that way---You're getting it wrong!", Ralph exclaimed when the sound of a closing portal was heard at Harry's back.
Oliver went through the other side of the portal and that other side was Harry's back. Harry, unable to react in a microsecond, got hit by a powerful punch by Oliver which was at its extreme temperature. Harry got severely wounded. He fell while the other time tried to restrain Oliver.
Oliver was responding at his extreme now and then coming to Harry, he said, "Did you think I'll flee Mr. Osborn? Not at least in the ultimate showdown"
Oliver punched him once again and Harry had got so much blood bleeding that he couldn't talk and reply Oliver.
When Oliver again raised his hand to finish Harry this time, that hand was clutched by Ralph. Ralph, unwillingly, had to use his extreme power now to keep Oliver in control. He whacked him at his highest while Harry gained some support to stand up again. Though his body was severely injured, he ran to accompany Ralph and the team stood up too. They all were surrounding Oliver in a circular manner.
The fight of the armies stopped around to see what was happening. Harry circumscribed anyone to beat Oliver. Instead, he took the lead to finish it. Oliver too was wounded severely and had fallen by Ralph's punch. Harry used this moment to drag Oliver by his collar through the detritus to reach the bodies of Charlotte and Edwin. Oliver tried to resist himself in the whole path but Harry was now in anger!
He threw Oliver between the dead bodies of Edwin and Charlotte on the metallic logo of THE SPIRITS. Ramesh's shield which had come on the top of the debris was visble to all now. Harry picked up that shield. Cleaned it gently while Oliver was guarded by THE SPIRITS. He brought the shield close to Oliver.
"What can be better to pay-off Ramesh's sacrifice in a better way?", Harry said.
"You're still stuck on that part...", Oliver spoke fearlessly.
"You'll see"
Harry grabbed the shield in his hand and with his furious movement, the sharp end of the shield had passed through Oliver's hand. Harry, intentionally, cut his right hand off while he said, "This one for all the innocent people who got killed because of our greed of thrones!"
Oliver screamed and his tears were noticeable. His scream spread all around the atmosphere with people watching carefully.
Harry, again furiously cut his right leg, "This one for our MOM"
Oliver screamed furiously again and was literally begging for his life... His blood was bleeding at a very fast rate.
Harry, seeing the speed of blood bleeding, he fastly cut his left leg off and then exclaimed, "This one for Rogers"
Harry didn't even give a second to relax before he even cut his left arm, "This one for Ramesh!"
Oliver was still alive dreadfully. He had become a dead body who seemed alive.
Oliver as his last words spoke very quietly but still in arrogance.
Non possum perdere
"What does this mean, Oliver?"
I Can Never Lose....
And Oliver was dead. He took his last breaths and Harry felt satisfied. The team was astonished by Harry's punishment to Oliver... But it was worth it. Ralph had some tears in his eyes but that were not for Oliver...
The team turned backwards and the whole scenery was changed. Those Cygnians who fought against Harry accepted him as their new king. Their loyalties and faith now rested in Harry.
The world had experienced the dawn of the new sun... Birds chirping loudly and fluently all around the fields. The whole Cygnian army around the world had surrendered and were finding their way back.
So many had suffered... Not only who died but also those who were bereaved. This was genocide and there was no denial in this fact.
All the happiness suddenly vanished when Harry abruptly fell on the floor shivering. He grabbed Peter's hand tightly.
He said, "Something's happening to me, Peter!"
"What is it Harry", Peter was a bit frightened.
"I don't feel so good"
Harry's shivering increased...
"Maybe it's the tension that's acting on you! Come on stand up"
Ralph knew what was happening, he was crying incessantly standing on his knees. Peter found this curious!
"Peter, it's not the tension! Nor anything else..."
"Harry, then what is it?", Peter asked furiously in tension and the team watched the whole scenario.
"Peter, I have never got this feeling! I feel the body is trying to resist me!", Harry took a sigh, "Valencia, I totally forgot to use that manipulation technique... I am sorry for that!"
Valencia had no words to answer Harry in this situation.
Harry looked towards Peter with his most depressed expression and said, "Peter, if I leave..."
"Don't say that, Harry!"
"Maybe it's some secret I don't know... But if I leave, take care of the SPIRITS and be answerable to the whole world for this attack! Apologize for the genocide and be gentle. SPIRITS were a family and will remain the same", Harry suddenly stopped breathing and his heartbeat went exponentially down which stuttered to a halt.
The whole team fell on their knees crying. Everyone was just stunned. For Peter, the whole world had vanished. He heard only the stunning silence all around and his scream echoing.
He shouted his name again and again in the hope to retrieve him! But that wasn't possible... The world remembers him and will always remember... Their LEADER LONDON...
HARRY... Wake Up at least For me... We won...
Peter sobbed all around!
Absolutely stunning!
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